Allied Warships

HMS Rotherham (H 09)

Destroyer of the R class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassR 
PennantH 09 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
OrderedMay 1940 
Laid down10 Apr 1941 
Launched21 Mar 1942 
Commissioned27 Aug 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to India on 29 July 1949 being renamed Raiput.
Scrapped in 1976.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Francis Stephen Walter de Winton, RN
23 June 1942 - 16 August 1944

Capt. Hilary Worthington Biggs, DSO, RN
16 August 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Rotherham (H 09)

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1Capt. Francis Stephen Walter de Winton, RN23 Jun 194216 Aug 1944
2Capt. Hilary Worthington Biggs, DSO, RN16 Aug 1944Oct 1945 ?

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