Personnel Profile
Luigi Durand de la Penne
Italian naval officer
Luigi Durand de la Penne served in a role connected with the Regia Marina during second world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with special maritime operations and underwater attack service. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Luigi Durand de la Penne belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.