HMS Rawalpindi
Scale model of HMS Rawalpindi | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| 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 |
| Laid down | 1923 |
| Launched | 26 March 1925 |
| Completed | 3 September 1925 |
| 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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| Notes | |
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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.