HMS Dunedin (D93)

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Career The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
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.


Danae-class cruisers
Royal Navy
Danae | Dauntless | Dragon | Delhi | Dunedin | Durban | Despatch | Diomede
Polish Navy
ORP Conrad | ORP Dragon

List of cruisers of the Royal Navy