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    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)...
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  • officer who is remembered as the captain of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi who engaged the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Edward...
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    Rawalpindi (/rɔːlˈpɪndi/; Punjabi, Urdu: راولپنڈی, romanized: Rāwalpinḍī; pronounced [ɾɑːʋəlpɪnɖiː] ) is the third-largest city in the Pakistani province...
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    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...
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    their first operation, the two ships sank the British auxiliary cruiser HMS Rawalpindi in a short battle. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst also participated in the...
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    operation in November 1939, Scharnhorst sank the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi in a short engagement. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau participated in Operation...
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  • 60-year-old retired captain, returned to the navy and was given command of HMS Rawalpindi, a hastily militarised P&O ocean liner, known as an armed merchant cruiser...
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    November 1939 battle between HMS Rawalpindi and the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Outgunned, the Rawalpindi was quickly sunk. The Spanish...
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    loss of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi on 23 November 1939. Captain Edward Kennedy RN, commander of Rawalpindi decided to fight the 11-inch gun...
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  • Kapurthala district, Punjab, India HMS Rawalpindi, a British Royal Navy ship that was sunk during World War II Rawalpindi experiments, human experiments on...
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    HMS Bruce 23 Nov: HMS Rawalpindi 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...
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    the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau after the sinking of HMS Rawalpindi. She was reassigned to the Eastern Fleet between August 1940 and September...
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    Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst sink the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. About 270 crewmen die, while...
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    served in the Royal Navy during World War II. His father commanded HMS Rawalpindi, the P&O armed merchant ship in her ill-fated encounter with the powerful...
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    armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi; Scharnhorst sank the ship, but in the process sustained a hit from one of Rawalpindi's 152 mm guns. Scharnhorst...
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    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...
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    Gneisenau, which had just sunk the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. While cruising off Iceland, Dunkerque ran into very heavy seas; her bow...
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    German battleship Scharnhorst sinks the British armed merchant vessel HMS Rawalpindi. The Scharnhorst and the accompanying Gneisenau are forced to abandon...
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    International Students' Day. November 23 – WWII: British armed merchantman HMS Rawalpindi is sunk in the GIUK gap, in an action against the German battleships...
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    HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She spent most of the pre-war period as part of the Mediterranean Fleet....
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    (Bismarck, Admiral Graf Spee, Blücher) For participation in the sinking of HMS Rawalpindi by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the sinking of two merchant vessels...
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    and Gneisenau after they had sunk the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. In early September 1939, there was a major French fleet deployment...
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    November 1939. During this operation they sank the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on 23 November. Both battleships...
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  • territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 1940 –...
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    including HMS Rawalpindi, which briefly fought the German 11 in (280 mm)-gunned battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in November 1939, and HMS Jervis Bay...
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    Scharnhorst and Gneisenau after the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. By December she was experiencing extensive leaking due to high speed...
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    Sinking Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine HMS Barham Association Website HMS Barham Archived 21 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, British...
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  • April 1925. SS Rawalpindi, (Clyde-built), passenger ship for P&O, launched 26 March 1925, completed 3 September 1925, renamed HMS Rawalpindi 1939, sunk by...
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    HMS Bruce 23 Nov: HMS Rawalpindi 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...
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    Waimarama traced Adolph Woermann and alerted the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Neptune. When Neptune approached on 22 November, Adolph Woermann's Master...
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