HMS Rotherham

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Rotherham on completion, September 1942
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Rotherham
NamesakeCaptain Edward Rotheram
Ordered2 April 1940
BuilderJohn Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down10 April 1941
Launched21 March 1942
Completed27 August 1942
CommissionedAugust 1942
Decommissioned1945
IdentificationPennant number: H09
Honours and
awards
  • Battle honours:
  • Sabang 1944
  • Burma
FateSold to India, 1948; Scrapped, 1976
BadgeOn a Field Blue, a
trippant
Gold between a wreath of oak also Gold
India
NameINS Rajput
NamesakeRajput
Acquired1948
Commissioned27 July 1949
Decommissioned1976
IdentificationD141
FateScrapped
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeR-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 1,705 long tons (1,732 t) light
  • 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) full load
Length358 ft 3 in (109.2 m) o/a
Beam35 ft 9 in (10.9 m)
Draught9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
  • Parsons
    geared steam turbines
  • 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
  • 2 shafts
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement237
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Type 290 air warning radar
  • Type 285 ranging & bearing radar
  • Huff-Duff
    (High-frequency Direction-finder)
Armament
  • 4 ×
    QF 4.7 inch (120 mm) Mk.IX guns
    , single mounts CP Mk.XVIII
  • 4 ×
    QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII
    (40 mm L/39), quad mount Mk.VII
  • 6 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon, single mount P Mk.III
  • 8 (2×4)
    21 in Mk.IX torpedoes
  • 4 × throwers & 2 × racks, 70 depth charges

HMS Rotherham was an

Second World War, named after Captain Edward Rotheram, who commanded HMS Royal Sovereign during at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Rotherham was completed in 1942 and equipped as a flotilla leader, having slightly reduced armament to allow for the increased complement and working space required. Decommissioned in 1945, the ship was sold to India in 1948, serving as INS Rajput (D141) until 1976, when she was scrapped.[2]

Royal Navy service

World War II

Rotherham was commissioned for service, after completing her

South Atlantic, operating as convoy escort between Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Cape Town and Durban, South Africa for the rest of the year.[2]

From February 1944 Rotherham was deployed in the

Azad Hind in the Andaman Islands, acting as an escort to aircraft carriers and battleships. In October 1944 Rotherham sailed to Simon's Town to refit.[2]

In early 1945 Rotherham was deployed intercepting Japanese ships supplying stores and carrying personnel to the

Rangoon during "Operation Dracula". Escort duties continued until the Japanese surrender on 15 August.[2]

Post-war operations

Rotherham was then deployed in "Operation Zipper", the British liberation of Penang, and in early September, as part of "Operation Tiderace", escorted a fleet led by the cruiser Sussex to Singapore to take the surrender of the 77,000 Japanese there. Rotherham's commander personally accepted the surrender of 34,000 personnel of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Singapore Naval Dockyard at Sembawang, and in commemoration the main entrance was renamed the "Rotherham Gate". The ship remained at Singapore until 27 September 1945, when she sailed to Trincomalee, leaving there on 2 October for Portsmouth, where she was decommissioned and put into the Reserve.[2]

Indian Navy service

Rotherham was sold to India in 1948, and formally transferred to the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. India maintains that the Rajput was responsible for sinking the Pakistan Navy submarine Ghazi, though Pakistan contests this, contending that the submarine was sunk by the accidental detonation of one or more of the laid or about-to-be-laid mines the ship was carrying.[2]

Rajput remained an active fleet unit until 1976 when she was placed on the Disposal List and then scrapped.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 1-85367-277-7
    .
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Lt.Cdr. Geoffrey B. Mason RN (2003). "HMS Rotherham, destroyer". Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War II. naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  3. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2
    , page 50

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