HMT Rohna

History
United Kingdom
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
Identification	UK official number 149745; code letters KVLS (until 1933); ; Call sign GMSF (from 1934); ;
Fate	Sunk by air attack 26 November 1943
General characteristics
Tonnage	8,602 GRT; tonnage under deck 6,681; 4,759 NRT; 9,400 LT DWT;
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
Installed power	984 NHP; 5,000 ihp;
Propulsion	2 × quadruple expansion steam engines;; twin screws;
Speed	14.3 knots (26.5 km/h) top speed; 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) cruising speed;
Capacity	281 First Class; 33 Second Class; 100 Third Class; 5,064 deck passengers,; reduced in 1931 to 3,851;
Crew	195 (peacetime); 200 crew + 12 DEMS gunners (as troop ship);
Sensors &; processing systems	direction finding equipment
Armament	(1943):; 1 × 4 in (102 mm) naval gun; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) 12-pounder HA/LA gun; 6 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns; 2 × Hotchkiss guns; 2 × 2 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Lewis guns; 1 × 2 in (51 mm) Rocket Mounting Mk II ("pillar box"); 4 × FAMS; 2 × Unrotated Projectile launchers;
Notes	sister ship: Rajula

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.

Building

In 1925, British India Line ordered two new ships for its Madras–Nagapatam–Singapore service. They were sister ships but were built by different shipyards and had different engines. Hawthorn Leslie and Company built Rohna at its shipyard at Hebburn on Tyneside. Barclay, Curle and Company built Rajula in Glasgow on Clydeside. Both ships were launched and completed in 1926.

Rohna was launched on 24 August 1926 and completed on 5 November. She was named after a village in Sonipat, Punjab, India.^[1] She had 15 corrugated furnaces that heated five single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 14,080 square feet (1,308 m²). These fed steam at 215 lb_f/in² to two four-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, developing a total of 984 NHP.^[2] Each engine drove one of the ship's twin screws, giving Rohna 984 NHP or 5,000 ihp.^[1] She achieved 14.3

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