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.
HMSRawalpindi was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted ocean liner employed as a convoy escort, as a patrol vessel, or to enforce a blockade)...
Rawalpindi (/rɔːlˈpɪndi/; Punjabi, Urdu: راولپنڈی, romanized: Rāwalpinḍī; pronounced [ɾɑːʋəlpɪnɖiː] ) is the third-largest city in the Pakistani province...
HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
During her first operation, Scharnhorst sank the armed merchant cruiser HMSRawalpindi in a short engagement (November 1939). Scharnhorst and Gneisenau participated...
their first operation, the two ships sank the British auxiliary cruiser HMSRawalpindi in a short battle. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst also participated in the...
60-year-old retired captain, returned to the navy and was given command of HMSRawalpindi, a hastily militarised P&O ocean liner, known as an armed merchant cruiser...
November 1939 battle between HMSRawalpindi and the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Outgunned, the Rawalpindi was quickly sunk. The Spanish...
loss of the armed merchant cruiser HMSRawalpindi on 23 November 1939. Captain Edward Kennedy RN, commander of Rawalpindi decided to fight the 11-inch gun...
koreanhero.net. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2016-02-06. "HMS Glowworm (1934) | Royal Navy History". www.royal-navy.org. Retrieved 2016-02-06...
HMS Bruce 23 Nov: HMSRawalpindi 25 Nov: V 301 Weser 28 Nov: Gustaf E. Reuter 29 Nov: U-35 Other incidents 9 Nov: Leander 15 Nov: Brulin 21 Nov: HMS Belfast 1938...
served in the Royal Navy during World War II. His father commanded HMSRawalpindi, the P&O armed merchant ship in her ill-fated encounter with the powerful...
Gneisenau, which had just sunk the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. While cruising off Iceland, Dunkerque ran into very heavy seas; her bow...
German battleship Scharnhorst sinks the British armed merchant vessel HMSRawalpindi. The Scharnhorst and the accompanying Gneisenau are forced to abandon...
(Bismarck, Admiral Graf Spee, Blücher) For participation in the sinking of HMSRawalpindi by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the sinking of two merchant vessels...
International Students' Day. November 23 – WWII: British armed merchantman HMSRawalpindi is sunk in the GIUK gap, in an action against the German battleships...
territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. 1939 – World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 1940 –...
Waimarama traced Adolph Woermann and alerted the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Neptune. When Neptune approached on 22 November, Adolph Woermann's Master...
HMS Bruce was the second of eight Admiralty type flotilla leaders of the Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird, Bruce was commissioned on 29 May 1918. During...
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