HMSDunedin

	Dunedinturning intoGardens Reachon theBrisbane River.South Brisbane wharves in background.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSDunedin
Builder	Armstrong WhitworthNewcastle-on-Tyne:Hawthorn Leslie and Company,Hebburn
Laid down	5 November 1917
Launched	19 November 1918
Commissioned	13 September 1919
Identification	Pennant number:96 (Aug 19);93 (Nov 19); I.93 (1936); D.93 (1940)
Fate	Sunk 24 November 1941 byU-124
General characteristics
Class and type	Danae-classlight cruiser
Displacement	4,276 tons; Full: 5,603 tons; After 1924: 4,850;
Length	445 ft (136 m)
Beam	46 ft 6 in (14.17 m)
Draught	14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Propulsion	SixYarrow-typewater-tube boilers; Parsonsgearedsteam turbines; Two shafts; 40,000 shp (30 MW);
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h)
Range	2,300 nmi (4,300 km)
Complement	462
Armament	1918:6 x BL6-inch (152 mm)L/45 Mark XII on single mountings CP Mark XIV (152 mm); 2 ×3-inch (76 mm)Mk II AA guns; 2 × 40 mmQF 2-pounder "pom-pom" AAguns; 12 ×21 inch (533 mm)torpedoes (4 triple launchers);
Armour	3 inch side (amidships); 2, 1¾, 1½ side (bow and stern); 1 inch upper decks (amidships); 1 inch deck over rudder;

HMSDunedinwas aDanae-class light cruiserof theRoyal Navy,pennant numberD93. She was launched from the yards ofArmstrong Whitworth,Newcastle-on-Tyneon 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the nameDunedin(named after the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised asEdinburgh).

Service history

In October 1920 she, with the other three British vessels, was sent to assure protection of the unloading of munitions intended forPoland,atDanzig.

In 1931 she provided assistance to the town ofNapier, New Zealand,after the strongHawkes Bay earthquake,in a task force with thesloop Veronicaand the cruiserDiomede.

Second World War

Early in theSecond World War,Dunedinwas involved in the hunt for the German battleshipsScharnhorstandGneisenauafter the sinking of thearmed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi.

In early 1940Dunedinwas operating in theCaribbean Sea,and there she intercepted the German merchant shipHeidelbergwest of theWindward Passage.Heidelberg's crew scuttled the ship beforeDunedincould take her. A few days later,Dunedin,in company with the Canadian destroyerAssiniboine,intercepted and captured the German merchant shipHannovernearJamaica.Hannoverlater became the first Britishescort carrier,Audacity.Between July and November,Dunedin,together with the cruiserTrinidad,maintained a blockade offMartinique,in part to bottle up three French warships, including the aircraft carrierBéarn.

On 15 June 1941,Dunedincaptured the German tankerLothringenand gathered some highly classifiedEnigma ciphermachines that she carried. TheRoyal NavyreusedLothringenas the fleet oilerEmpire Salvage.Dunedinwent on to capture threeVichy Frenchvessels,Ville de RouenoffNatal,the merchant shipVille de Tamataveeast of theSaint Paul's Rocks,and finally,D'Entrecasteaux.

Dunedinwas part of the escort ofConvoy WS 5Awhen it was attacked by the Germanheavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.on 25 December 1940. The attack was repulsed by other ships of the escort, without losses to the convoy.^[3]

Dunedinwas still steaming in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just east of the St. Paul's Rocks, north east ofRecife,Brazil, when on 24 November 1941, at 1526 hours, two torpedoes from theGerman submarineU-124sank her. Only four officers and 63 men survived out ofDunedin's crew of 486 officers and men.

Citations

^{{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |title=British Warships 1914–1919 |date=1972 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |page=50}
^Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940".Warship International.61(2): 134–66.
^Rohwer 2005,p. 53.

References

Campbell, N.J.M. (1980). "Great Britain". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.).Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946.New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 2–85.ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
Colledge, J. J.;Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy(Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
Friedman, Norman(2010).British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After.Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing.ISBN 978-1-59114-078-8.
Raven, Alan & Roberts, John (1980).British Cruisers of World War Two.Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.ISBN 0-87021-922-7.
Rohwer, Jürgen(2005).Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two(Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
Whitley, M. J.(1995).Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia.London: Cassell.ISBN 1-86019-874-0.

External links

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[1] {{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |title=British Warships 1914–1919 |date=1972 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |page=50}

[2] Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940".Warship International.61(2): 134–66.

[FOOTNOTERohwer200553-3] Rohwer 2005,p. 53.

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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1941
Shipwrecks	2 Nov:Voroshilov 3 Nov:Flynderborg 4 Nov:Smetlivy 5 Nov:Empire Energy 7 Nov:Armenia,Nottingham 9 Nov:Ungvár 11 Nov:U-580 13 Nov:HMSArk Royal,Chervona Ukraina 14 Nov:Empire Defender 15 Nov:U-583 16 Nov:U-433 19 Nov:Kormoran,HMASSydney 22 Nov:Atlantis,Empire Dorado 24 Nov:HMSDunedin,Hercules 25 Nov:HMSBarham,V 412Bremerhaven 27 Nov:HMASParramatta, 28 Nov:U-95 29 Nov:Fiddown Unknown date:Proteus,U-206
Other incidents	12 Nov:Leningrad 15 Nov:U-153 20 Nov:Empire Dorado
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