HMT Rohna
British passenger and cargo liner; sunk in 1943 by Nazi air forces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMT Rohna was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that was built on Tyneside in 1926 as SS Rohna and requisitioned as a troop ship in 1940. ("HMT" stands for His Majesty's Transport.) Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1943 by a Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb launched by a Luftwaffe aircraft. More than 1,100 people were killed, most of whom were US troops.
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Name | Rohna |
Namesake | Rohna, Punjab |
Owner | British India SN Co |
Operator | British India SN Co |
Port of registry | London |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, England |
Yard number | 542 |
Launched | 24 August 1926 |
Completed | 5 November 1926 |
Commissioned | 15 March 1941 |
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Fate | Sunk by air attack 26 November 1943 |
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Length | 461.4 ft (140.6 m) |
Beam | 61.8 ft (18.8 m) |
Draught | 33 ft 0 in (10.06 m) |
Depth | 29.9 ft (9.1 m) |
Decks | 3 |
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Sensors and processing systems | direction finding equipment |
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Notes | sister ship: Rajula |
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