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for about 30 minutes after the other soldiers and crew had abandoned ship. About 90 minutes after the missile hit the ship there was a rending noise, probably from the collapse of a bulkhead aft. Clouds of smoke came from number three hold and the ship settled by the stern. The group threw the last
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and forced out the plates of her hull so that none of her surviving port boats could be lowered past them. Troops cut the falls of some of the boats causing them to fall in the sea and be swamped. Only eight boats were launched; they became overloaded with troops and most became waterlogged or
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The impact was about 15 feet (5 m) above the water line, but it flooded the engine room, knocked out all electrical equipment including her pumps, and set the ship ablaze. The impact demolished the number four bulkhead. It also destroyed six of her 22
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had a high freeboard so she lowered a cargo net for survivors to use as a scramble net. The climb was about 30 feet (9 m) from the sea to the deck, which was difficult for many of the exhausted survivors. The wind was only
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get under way to avoid being run onto the harbour breakwater. Other ships were moored in the harbour, and Carré's helmsman had to steer through a narrow space between two of them in a very heavy sea. Eventually
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Soldiers Lost at Sea: A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters
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The HMT Rohna Documentary Preview – Rohna: Classified
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876:8/1 and from Bombay to Singapore in March 1941 in
864:took troops from Bombay to Suez in August 1940 in
624:. Both ships were launched and completed in 1926.
1972:Attack on US Convoy KMF-26 off the Bay of Bourgie
1258:Among the last people to leave the ship were her
2819:World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
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858:until 28 July when she left Mombasa for Bombay.
803:. Apart from a voyage from Karachi to Suez with
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2009:The Rohna Survivors Memorial Association
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1754:"Unraveling the Secret Behind the HMT
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246:Sunk by air attack 26 November 1943
1970:Dochtermann, Hans (14 July 1992).
1361:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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1453:List of ships sunk by missiles
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1053:At 12:30 on 25 November 1943,
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1947:Bollinger, Martin J. (2010).
1068:About 16:30 the next day off
1875:Carré, Captain E.G. (1936).
1491:"The Troopships 1923 to End"
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2020:Engines of Our Ingenuity
1752:McHugh, Caitlin (2011).
1710:. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb
1683:. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb
1573:merchantnavyofficers.com
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791:When the UK entered the
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267:tonnage under deck 6,681
2016:"No. 1583: Glide Bombs"
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251:General characteristics
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825:Mandatory Palestine
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86:British India SN Co
77:British India SN Co
2022:. John H Lienhard.
1799:Forgotten New York
1782:Rohna The Memorial
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1426:History Undercover
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1994:978-1-55750-402-9
1962:978-1-59114-067-2
1951:. Annapolis, MD:
1929:978-1-59114-966-8
1885:. pp. 57–63.
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1394:Controversy
1348:Members of
1219:minesweeper
1125:glide bombs
1096:Spitfires.
994:, Tripoli,
884:coup d'Ă©tat
799:was in the
787:War service
689:equipment.
537:in 1926 as
531:cargo liner
503:sister ship
270:4,759
261:8,602
123:Yard number
2779:1926 ships
2773:Categories
2352:Discoverer
2132:Shipwrecks
1934:hmt rhona.
1901:. London:
1654:Carré 1936
1642:Carré 1936
1627:Carré 1936
1601:. London:
1578:8 December
1523:. London:
1464:References
1365:Chittagong
1307:Atherstone
1284:Atherstone
1243:Atherstone
1235:Hunt-class
1196:Atherstone
1108:glide bomb
1063:Convoy KMF
980:Alexandria
870:Port Sudan
813:Suez Canal
775:When new,
676:sea trials
546:troop ship
478:Lewis guns
347:Propulsion
2712:USS
2701:USS
2694:USS
2683:HMS
2672:USS
2665:USS
2654:USS
2645:Yamashiro
2627:USS
2599:HMS
2580:USS
2563:USS
2434:USS
2395:HMS
2333:USS
2306:USS
2289:USS
2274:Dulverton
2272:HMS
2209:USS
2166:Hatsukaze
2158:USS
2069:37°1′12″N
1805:9 January
1344:Monuments
1297:: 602 on
1241:HMS
1238:destroyer
1222:USS
1209:liferafts
1194:HMS
1179:USS
1162:lifeboats
1090:Spitfires
1075:Luftwaffe
1000:Port Said
925:Convoy NB
905:Convoy BP
897:Iraqforce
878:Convoy BM
874:Convoy US
866:Convoy BN
817:Marseille
731:starboard
681:By 1934,
666:or 5,000
658:, giving
622:Clydeside
584:Singapore
580:Nagapatam
564:US troops
559:Luftwaffe
527:passenger
492:launchers
454:naval gun
439:equipment
204:Call sign
139:Completed
118:, England
2710:20 Nov:
2703:Ringgold
2696:Nautilus
2692:19 Nov:
2681:15 Nov:
2663:14 Nov:
2656:Albacore
2652:10 Nov:
2629:Albacore
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2488:Toa Maru
2470:Makinami
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2253:Suzunami
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2072:5°12′6″E
2038:Rootsweb
1893:(1948).
1846:cite web
1714:7 August
1687:7 August
1609:5 August
1531:5 August
1500:6 August
1447:See also
1428:series,
1406:service
1276:foredeck
974:and the
805:Convoy K
604:Tyneside
570:Building
535:Tyneside
485:4 Ă— FAMS
444:Armament
388:Capacity
131:Launched
83:Operator
62:Namesake
2636:9 Nov:
2625:8 Nov:
2582:Capelin
2565:Perkins
2417:Achéron
2335:Sculpin
2291:Corvina
2230:9 Nov:
2207:6 Nov:
2197:5 Nov:
2156:2 Nov:
2140:1 Nov:
1869:Sources
1677:"Rohna"
1408:Xlibris
1326:Pioneer
1322:orderly
1299:Pioneer
1291:Mindful
1253:Force 4
1224:Pioneer
1181:Pioneer
1004:Bizerta
996:Augusta
984:Tripoli
953:Bahrain
893:Karachi
852:Mombasa
844:Colombo
840:Rangoon
632:Sonipat
618:Glasgow
600:Hebburn
449:(1943):
302:Draught
256:Tonnage
116:Hebburn
108:Builder
65:Rohna,
33:History
2714:Rasher
2639:Ro-113
2601:Simoom
2506:YĹ«giri
2482:Ro-100
2448:NaĂŻade
2308:McKean
2211:Beatty
2178:Storaa
2172:Sendai
2143:Cha-13
1991:
1959:
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1922:–147.
1605:. 1934
1527:. 1933
1389:Rohna.
1369:Mumbai
1324:. USS
1268:second
1260:master
1216:-class
1167:lascar
1070:Bougie
1006:, and
970:, the
957:Âbâdân
955:, and
882:Iraqi
854:, and
848:Durban
842:, and
836:Bombay
745:bridge
727:Master
725:. Her
656:screws
636:Punjab
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