The battle demonstrates the difference between fitting guns and building a ship for combat damage. A third salvo knocked out electricity and stopped the ammunition winches, leaving the guns dependent on ready-use rounds. The following salvo destroyed the bridge and wireless room and likely killed Kennedy and much of the command team. After roughly half an hour to forty minutes of bombardment, every gun was out of action, although the burning ship remained afloat until she capsized that evening. The cited figures give 263 men lost, about 30 survivors taken prisoner, and 11 rescued by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Chitral. Kennedy was posthumously mentioned in dispatches.
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How battle damage stopped Rawalpindi's resistance
A salvo cut Rawalpindi's electrical system and ammunition supply, then another destroyed the bridge and wireless room as the burning ship lost her guns.