HMS Dunedin
{{short description|Cruiser of the Royal Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=StateLibQld 1 149299 Dunedin (ship).jpg |Ship caption=Dunedin turning into Gardens Reach on the Brisbane River. South Brisbane wharves in background. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=HMS Dunedin |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle-on-Tyne: Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn |Ship laid down=5 November 1917 |Ship launched=19 November 1918 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=13 September 1919 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Sunk 24 November 1941 by {{GS|U-124|1940|2}} |Ship homeport= |Ship identification=Pennant number: 96 (Aug 19);{{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |title=British Warships 1914–1919 |date=1972 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |page=50}}93 (Nov 19); I.93 (1936); }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Danae|cruiser|0}} light cruiser |Ship displacement=*4,276 tons
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|Ship armour=*3 inch side (amidships)
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HMS Dunedin was a {{sclass|Danae|cruiser|0}} light cruiser of the Royal Navy, pennant number D93. She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Dunedin (named after the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised as Edinburgh).
Service history
In October 1920 she, with the other three British vessels, was sent to assure protection of the unloading of munitions intended for Poland, at Danzig.
In 1931 she provided assistance to the town of Napier, New Zealand, after the strong Hawkes Bay earthquake, in a task force with the sloop {{HMS|Veronica|1915|2}} and the cruiser {{HMS|Diomede|D92|2}}.
=Second World War=
Early in the Second World War, Dunedin was involved in the hunt for the German battleships {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst||2}} and {{ship|German battleship|Gneisenau||2}} after the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser {{HMS|Rawalpindi||2}}.
In early 1940 Dunedin was operating in the Caribbean Sea, and there she intercepted the German merchant ship Heidelberg west of the Windward Passage. Heidelberg{{'}}s crew scuttled the ship before Dunedin could take her. A few days later, Dunedin, in company with the Canadian destroyer {{HMCS|Assiniboine|I18|2}}, intercepted and captured the German merchant ship Hannover near Jamaica. Hannover later became the first British escort carrier, {{HMS|Audacity|D10|2}}. Between July and November, Dunedin, together with the cruiser {{HMS|Trinidad|46|2}}, maintained a blockade off Martinique, in part to bottle up three French warships, including the aircraft carrier {{ship|French aircraft carrier|Béarn||2}}.
On 15 June 1941, Dunedin captured the German tanker Lothringen and gathered some highly classified Enigma cipher machines that she carried. The Royal Navy reused Lothringen as the fleet oiler Empire Salvage. Dunedin went on to capture three Vichy French vessels, Ville de Rouen off Natal, the merchant ship Ville de Tamatave east of the Saint Paul's Rocks, and finally, D'Entrecasteaux.
Dunedin was part of the escort of Convoy WS 5A when it was attacked by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.on 25 December 1940. The attack was repulsed by other ships of the escort, without losses to the convoy.{{Sfn|Rohwer|2005|p=53}}
Dunedin was still steaming in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just east of the St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil, when on 24 November 1941, at 1526 hours, two torpedoes from the {{GS|U-124|1940|6}} sank her. Only four officers and 63 men survived out of Dunedin{{'}}s crew of 486 officers and men.
Citations
References
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau |editor1-first=Roger |publisher=Mayflower Books|location=New York|year=1980|isbn=0-8317-0303-2 |chapter=Great Britain |last1=Campbell |first1=N.J.M.|pages=2–85}}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After|year=2010|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-59114-078-8 |author-link=Norman Friedman}}
- {{cite book|last1=Raven|first1=Alan|last2=Roberts|first2=John|title=British Cruisers of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1980|isbn=0-87021-922-7|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2|author-link=Jürgen Rohwer}}
- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia|publisher=Cassell |location=London|year=1995|isbn=1-86019-874-0|author-link=Michael J. Whitley}}
External links
{{Commons category|HMS Dunedin (ship, 1919)}}
- [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Dunedin.htm Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1]
- [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/1206.html HMS Dunedin at U-boat.net]
- [http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/light-cruiser/hms-Danae.html Ships of the Danae class]
{{Danae class cruiser}}
{{November 1941 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Danae-class cruisers of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built on the River Tyne
Category:World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Maritime incidents in November 1941