HMS Rawalpindi

Scale model of HMS Rawalpindi
History
United Kingdom
Name	Rawalpindi
Namesake	The city of Rawalpindi (British India)
Owner	Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry	Greenock
Route	London–Bombay
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Greenock
Yard number	660[1]
Laid down	1923
Launched	26 March 1925
Completed	3 September 1925[1]
Homeport	London
Fate	Requisitioned by Admiralty, 24 August 1939
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rawalpindi
Acquired	24 August 1939
Commissioned	19 September 1939
Out of service	23 November 1939
Fate	Sunk by German battleships, 23 November 1939
General characteristics
Type	Armed merchant cruiser
Tonnage	16,697 GRT
Length	548 ft (167 m)
Beam	69 ft (21 m)
Draught	29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion steam engines
Speed	15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	276
Armament	8 × 6 in (150 mm) Mk VII guns, 2 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns
Notes	sister ships: Ranpura, Ranchi, Rajputana

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.