ww2dbaseAdmiral Forbes, the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, having been notified of Rawalpindi's two sighting reports of the "Deutschland", ordered the Home Fleet to sail at once from Scapa Flow to intercept, but in the meantime, HMS Newcastle, the next ship to the Rawalpindi on the patr...
In Admiralty service from 1940 (Royal Fleet Auxiliary, an auxiliary branch of the Royal Navy responsible for, among other things, supplying the fleet with stores and fuel oil. Its vessels were under the control of the Royal Navy but the crews were merchant navy personnel. The vessels were not...
Commissioned 1 Oct 1939 Sunk 23 Nov 1939 Displacement 16,965 tons standard Length 548 feet Beam 69 feet Draft 29 feet Speed 15 knots Crew 276 Armament 8x150mm guns, 2x76mm AA guns Original Owner Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Acquired by Royal Navy 24 Aug 1939 ...