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RAWALPINDI (1925)
Service dates: 1925-1939
Official number: 147827
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 26.03.1925
- Launched by Lady Birkenhead, wife of Lord Birkenhead.
- 02.09.1925
- Ran trials.
- 03.09.1925
- Delivered as Rawalpindi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 1927
- Lost cable in typhoon at Hong Kong.
- 1930/1931
- Cruising in addition to mail sailings.
- 16.09.1937
- Shadowed by a Japanese destroyer near Hong Kong.
- 25.08.1939
- Requisitioned by the Admiralty as an armed merchant cruiser.
- 19.10.1939
- Encountered German ships and sunk after intense bombardment.
- 23.11.1939
- Sank after attack by German battlecruisers.
- 1940
- Former boats possibly used during Dunkirk evacuation. Wreck discovered in 1969.
- 19.09.1969
- Wreck discovered lying in 168 fathoms.