Facebook post #022 (Jun 2020)
So, there are nearly 50 ships researched and pictured in my family history as our people travelled or served upon them. SS Rawalpindi is interesting as cousins on both sides of the family travelled to India on her in the 1920s (here and here).
She was requisitioned in 1939, with most of her crew. In November of that year, when on convoy protection duty off Iceland, she “had the great misfortune to encounter the mighty German battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau”, with predictably sad results for the brave crew, battle ensigns hoisted.
