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HMT Rohna
HMT ''Rohna'' was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that was built on Tyneside in 1926 as SS ''Rhona'' 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 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. She had 15 corrugated furnaces that heated five single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . These fed steam at 215 lbf/in2 to two four-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, developing a total of 984 NHP. Each engine drove one of the ship's twin screws, giving ''Rohna'' 984 NHP or 5,000 ihp.〔 She achieved on her sea trials and had a cruising speed of .
By 1934 ''Rohna'' carried wireless direction finding equipment.
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