The Archive · 1941

Rajputana Torpedoed And Sunk

London, Apt. 24 The Admiralyy yesterday announced that the armed merchant cruiser KINS. Rajputana, well-known in Shanghai, had been torpedoed: and sunk.

The Rajputana was a sister ship of the Rawalpind! which sane with guns blazing during a fght'with the German raider Deutschland early in the The Rajputana took hundreds of American and British women and children from Shanghai to Hongkong during the 1037 hostilities in that Captain F, Hf. Taylor was commanding the vessel when it sank, the Admiralty said," Next of kin of victims were notified—United Press.

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