 The installation of eight six-inch guns gave her the firepower of a light cruiser without the armoured protection.She was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland on 13 April 1941, after escorting a convoy across the North Atlantic.In the Battle of the Atlantic HMS "Rajputana" escorted several North Atlantic convoys from Bermuda and Halifax, Nova Scotia under Captain F. H. Taylor, including BHX 42, BHX 45, BHX 49, BHX 52, BHX 54, BHX 61, BHX 64, BHX 71, BHX 83, BHX 94, BHX 101, BHX 111 and BHX 117.