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H.M.S. Rawalpindi

Maritime Museum Greenwich, London,

 

From Wikipedia

 

HMS Rawalpindi was a British armed merchant cruiser, (a converted passenger ship employed as convoy escorts, as patrol vessels, and 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 Coverley Kennedy.

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi

 

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