HMS Dunedin (D93)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Danae-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Dunedin |
| Builder: | 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 |
| Fate: | Sunk 24 November 1941 by U 124 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,276 tons Full: 5,603 tons After 1924: 4,850 |
| Length: | 445 ft (136 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 6 in (14.2 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 6 in (4.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Six Yarrow-type water-tube boilers Parsons geared steam turbines Two shafts 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,300 nm |
| Complement: | 462 |
| Armament: | 1918: six BL 6 in L/45 Mark XII on single mountings CP Mark XIV (152 mm) two 3 inch (76.2 mm) Mk II AA guns two 40 mm QF 2 pdr "Pom-pom" AA guns twelve 21 in (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 |
HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Dunedin.
Early in the Second World War, she was involved in the hunt for the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau after the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. In early 1940 Dunedin was operating in the Caribbean, and here intercepted the German merchant Heidelberg west of the Windward Passage. However her crew scuttled her before she could be captured. A few days later, Dunedin, in company with the Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine, intercepted and captured the German merchant Hannover near Jamaica. The Hannover later became the first British escort carrier, HMS Audacity.
On 24 November 1941 HMS Dunedin was in the Central Atlantic, east of St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil when she was sunk at 1526 hours by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-124. Only four officers and 63 men survived out of a crew of 486 officers and men.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
- HMS Dunedin at U-boat.net
- Ships of the Danae class
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