File:HMS_Rawalpindi_(MOD_381).jpg
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DescriptionHMS Rawalpindi (MOD 381).jpg |
English: Model of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. Harland and Wolff built the ship in Greenock and launched her in 1925 as a 16,619 GRT P&O passenger liner. The Admiralty requisitioned her in September 1939 and had her converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 23 November 1939 the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sank her by gunfire betwen Iceland and the Faroe Islands. |
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18:23, 23 November 2013 | 800 × 459 (45 KB) | Wolcott | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=H M Armed Merchant Cruiser Rawalpindi was formerly a liner of the Peninsular & Oriental Navigation Company, and displaced 17000 tons. She was taken over by the Admiralty in 1939, and was sunk on 23 November 1939 by... |
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