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.

2019年5月5日 · Number one was HMT Norna. Once complete, it was stationed at Edinburgh, Scotland to provide protection for the north. Train number two was named HMT Alice and was based at Norfolk to provide protection along the East coast of England.

Classified for 50 years, the sinking of the HMT Rohna remains one of the least known—yet most catastrophic—events of World War II.

Two of the Ivatt tank engines No. 1587 and No. 1590 were loaned to Crewe to be fitted with armor plating and were named HMT Norna and HMT Alice respectively. They were sold back to the LNER in 1923 and had their armor plating removed.

This statement is in remembrance of the historical and tragic sinking of the British troopship HMT Rohna on November 26, 1943 in the Mediterranean Sea off the North Africa coast. Those of us who experienced and survived that ordeal, and the hundreds of families who lost loved ones, stand together today in commemoration of that loss.

2022年11月3日 · The HMT Rohna history team are pooling their skills to trace the truth of what happened on 26 November 1943, in the missile attack that saw over a thousand people sent to a watery grave in the Mediterranean off the coast of Algeria. Why does this story mean so much to …

On November 26, 1943, in the midst of World War II, the Rohna — a British transport ship — was en route to the Chine-Burma-India Theater to deliver troops to aid the allied war effort. A group …

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. Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1943 by a Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb launched by a Luftwaffe aircraft.

Two of the Ivatt tank engines No. 1587 and No. 1590 were loaned to Crewe to be fitted with armor plating and were named HMT Norna and HMT Alice respectively. They were sold back to the LNER in 1923 and had their armor plating removed.

The trains followed the shipping tradition of being given names. Number one was HMT Norna. Once complete, it was stationed at Edinburgh, Scotland to provide protection for the north. Train number two was named HMT