No.422 Rawalpindi launched in 1925

16,619grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi

Sunk North Atlantic 1939 in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The Captain Edward Kennedy RN, killed in action with 237 others, was the father of Ludovic Kennedy, the writer and broadcaster

Gibraltar image from Peter Brown

Image from Norman Stewart

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