HMS Rotherham (H09)
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HMS Rotherham was a R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed in 1942 and served during the Second World War. She is named for the English town of Rotherham.
Rotherham spent most of the war patrolling the waters of the East Indies and was present offshore during the Japanese surrender of Singapore. She survived the war with no combat damage or loss of life.
As the INS Rajput, it was instrumental in the sinking the Pakistani Navy's premier submarine PNS Ghazi, which had posed a significant threat in the Bay of Bengal[citation needed].
She finished her service with the Royal Navy in 1949 and was sold to the Indian Navy where she was renamed Rajput. She was scrapped in 1976.
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