HMS Rotherham

Rotherham on completion, September 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rotherham
Namesake	Captain Edward Rotheram
Ordered	2 April 1940
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down	10 April 1941
Launched	21 March 1942
Completed	27 August 1942
Commissioned	August 1942
Decommissioned	1945
Identification	Pennant number: H09
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Sabang 1944 Burma
Fate	Sold to India, 1948; Scrapped, 1976
Badge	On a Field Blue, a stag trippant Gold between a wreath of oak also Gold
India
Name	INS Rajput
Namesake	Rajput
Acquired	1948
Commissioned	27 July 1949
Decommissioned	1976
Identification	D141
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	R-class destroyer
Displacement	1,705 long tons (1,732 t) light 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) full load
Length	358 ft 3 in (109.2 m) o/a
Beam	35 ft 9 in (10.9 m)
Draught	9 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
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	237
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) torpedo tubes for 21 in Mk.IX torpedoes 4 × throwers & 2 × racks, 70 depth charges

HMS Rotherham was an R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy during the 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]