H.M.S. Rawalpindi
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1939
(Colonia COL-12A)
- Class: Armed Merchant Cruiser
- Displacement: 16,619 tons
- Dimensions: 570' x 71'4" x 28'9"
- Machinery: Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw, 15,000 ihp = 17 knots
- Armament: 4-6in (4x1)
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Ltd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1925
- Commissioned: 19 Sep 1939
- Service: Built for P&O Lines. London-Bombay service. Originally had two funnels, accommodation for 600 passengers (310 first class, 290 second class) and crew of 380. Requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser, 24 Aug 1939. Second funnel removedas shown here. Sunk by German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the North Atlantic, 23 Nov 1939; 26 rescued by Germans but 270 lost.
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