HMS Dunedin (D93)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Built By: | Armstrong Whitworth (Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK): Hawthorn Leslie and Company, (Hebburn, UK) |
| Laid down: | 5 November, 1917 |
| Launched: | 19 November, 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 13 September, 1919 |
| Paid off: | |
| Fate: | Lost 24 November, 1941 |
| Penant: | D93 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | Light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4850 tons {standard} 4927 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 472½ feet {144 metres) (overall) |
| Beam: | 46½ feet (14.17 metres) |
| Draught: | 14½ feet (4.42 metres) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines 6 Yarrow boilers 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 6700 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 452 |
| Armament: | 6x6 inch BL Mk XII guns (5x1) 3x4 inch Mk V guns (3x1) 2x2 pounder (2x1) 12 21 inch torpedo tubes (4x3) |
| Armour: | machinery spaces: 3 inches magazine sides: 2½ inches, deck: 1 inch |
| Aircraft: | none |
HMS Dunedin was a D class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.
HMS Dunedin (Capt. R.S. Lovatt, RN) was sunk at 1526 hours on 24 November 1941 in the Central Atlantic east of St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil in position 03.00S, 26.00W by 2 torpedoes from the German submarine U-124. Only 4 officers and 63 men survived out of a crew of 486 officers and men.
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| Danae-class cruisers |
| Royal Navy |
| Danae | Dauntless | Dragon | Delhi | Dunedin | Durban | Despatch | Diomede |
| Free Polish Navy |
| ORP Conrad | ORP Dragon |
List of cruisers of the Royal Navy |
