HMS Rawalpindi
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HMS Rawalpindi was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted ocean liner employed as a convoy escort, as a patrol vessel, or to enforce a blockade) that was sunk in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the first months of the Second World War. Her captain was Edward Kennedy.
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Name | Rawalpindi |
Namesake | The city of Rawalpindi (British India) |
Owner | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
Port of registry | Greenock |
Route | London–Bombay |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Greenock |
Yard number | 660[1] |
Laid down | 1923 |
Launched | 26 March 1925 |
Completed | 3 September 1925[1] |
Homeport | London |
Fate | Requisitioned by Admiralty, 24 August 1939 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Rawalpindi |
Acquired | 24 August 1939 |
Commissioned | 19 September 1939 |
Out of service | 23 November 1939 |
Fate | Sunk by German battleships, 23 November 1939 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Armed merchant cruiser |
Tonnage | 16,697 GRT |
Length | 548 ft (167 m) |
Beam | 69 ft (21 m) |
Draught | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × quadruple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Complement | 276 |
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