| Navy | The 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 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Sold for scrap 30 October 1950. |
Commands listed for HMS Penn (G 77)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. James Hamilton Swain, RN | 2 Dec 1941 | Nov 1943 |
| 2 | Lt. Michael John Wake Pawsey, RN | Nov 1943 | 27 Nov 1944 |
| 3 | Lt.Cdr. Alexander Henderson Diack, DSC, RN | 27 Nov 1944 | June 1946 |
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Noteable events involving Penn include:
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. H.R. Hewlett, RN) intercept a Japanese landing craft and sink it with gunfire off the north-west coast of Sumatra.
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