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Edward Coverley Kennedy was a Royal Navy officer during World War II. He was captain of HMS Rawalpindi when it was sunk by the German battlecruser Scharnhorst between Iceland and the Faroe Islands, on 23 November 1939.[1] Kennedy went down with his ship.[2] He was the father of the BBC broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy.[3]

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  1. ^ "Scharnhorst The History The Attack on the Northern Patrol". Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Captain Edward Coverley (Edward) Kennedy". AGELASTOS Family Genealogy. Darrin Lythgoe. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Ludovic Kennedy learns of the death of his father". World War II Today. World War II Today. Retrieved 3 January 2018.