HMS Rawalpindi

Scale model of HMS Rawalpindi
History
United Kingdom
NameRawalpindi
NamesakeThe city of Rawalpindi (British India)
OwnerPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Port of registryUnited Kingdom Greenock
RouteLondon–Bombay
BuilderHarland and Wolff, Greenock
Yard number660[1]
Laid down1923
Launched26 March 1925
Completed3 September 1925[1]
HomeportLondon
FateRequisitioned by Admiralty, 24 August 1939
United Kingdom
NameHMS Rawalpindi
Acquired24 August 1939
Commissioned19 September 1939
Out of service23 November 1939
FateSunk by German battleships, 23 November 1939
General characteristics
TypeArmed merchant cruiser
Tonnage16,697 GRT
Length548 ft (167 m)
Beam69 ft (21 m)
Draught29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Propulsion2 × quadruple-expansion steam engines
Speed15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement276
Armament
Notes

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.

  1. ^ a b McCluskie, p. 133.