HMS Penn (G77)

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Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: P 
Pennant: G 77 
Built by: Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered: 20 Oct, 1939 
Laid down: 26 Dec, 1939 
Launched: 12 Feb, 1941 
Commissioned: 10 Feb, 1942 
History: Sold for scrap 30 October 1950. 
  7 Nov, 1943
HMS Pathfinder (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Malins, RN) and HMS Penn (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Swain, DSO, RN) sink the German submarine trap GA 45 with gunfire off Amorgos, Greece.

15 Jun, 1945
HMS Penn (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Diack, DSC, RN) and HMS Paladin (Lt.Cdr. H.R. Hewlett, RNVR) intercept a Japanese landing craft and sink it with gunfire off the north-west coast of Sumatra.

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