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| Launched 1925: ss RAWALPINDI |
ss RAWALPINDI
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ss RAWALPINDI
built by Harland and Wolff Greenock,
Yard No 660 Engines by Harland and Wolff Ltd, Belfast
Last Name: RAWALPINDI
Port of Registry: Greenock
Propulsion: 2 x quadruple expansion four cylinder steam engines, 15000 ihp, twin screws, 17 knots
Launched: Thursday, 26/03/1925
Built: 1925
Ship Type: Passenger Liner
Ship's Role: London/Bombay mail service
Tonnage: 16619 gross; 9416 net; 8850 dwt
Length: 547ft 9in
Breadth: 71ft 4in
Draught: 29ft 7in
Owner History:
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Status: Sunk - 23/11/1939
Remarks:
26/03/1925: Launched by Lady Birkenhead, wife of Lord Birkenhead who had been Lord High Chancellor from 1919 to 1922.
02/09/1925: Trials. Mean speed 19.6 knots.
03/09/1925: Delivered to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London. One of the 'R' class, these were the first P&O ships with facilities for carrying refrigerated stores. She could carry 307 First Class and 288 Second Class passengers.
26/08/1939: Requisitioned by The Admiralty for service as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. Converted by R&H Green & Silley Weir at Royal Albert Dock, London : aft funnel removed, eight 6" and two 3" guns fitted.
23/11/1939: At 1507 hours encountered the German battlecruisers Gneisenau
and Scharnhorst SE of Iceland, and after an intense 13 minute bombardment was set on fire. She sank at 2000 GMT.
Captain E C Kennedy RN, 38 officers and 226 ratings were lost; the
German warships rescued 26 survivors and another 11 were picked
up by another P&O ship, CHITRAL. Contrary to some accounts,
Captain Kennedy was not awarded the Victoria Cross, but did
receive a posthumous Mention in Despatches, the highest honour
possible in the circumstances at the time.
Photo supplied by Paul Strathdee collection
Previous update by John Newth
Last updated: by Paul Strathdee from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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