Dunedin turning into Gardens Reach on the Brisbane River. South Brisbane wharves in background.
History
United Kingdom
Name
HMS Dunedin
Builder
Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle-on-Tyne: Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn
Laid down
5 November 1917
Launched
19 November 1918
Commissioned
13 September 1919
Fate
Sunk 24 November 1941 by U-124
General characteristics
Class and type
Danae-class light 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
Six Yarrow-type water-tube boilers
Parsons geared steam 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 BL 6-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 mm QF 2-pounder "pom-pom" AA guns
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
HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class 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).
HMSDunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, pennant number D93. She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne...
Chatham members separated from Grand Council and formed a GEB lodge aboard HMSDunedin. In or around 1927 GEB fell out of favour with both the Grand Council...
pursued by an armed force of 150 marines and seamen from the light cruiser HMSDunedin, and 50 military police. Villages were raided, often at night and with...
Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...
(Captain F Austin) HMS Dauntless (Captain C Round-Turner) HMS Delhi (Captain J Murray Pipon) HMS Dragon (Captain B Fairbairn) HMSDunedin (Captain AF Beal)...
with the cruisers HMS Newcastle and later HMSDunedin and HMS Devonshire. For a while they were joined by the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. Their task was...
1921, as was the sloop Torch, HMS Laburnum arrived in 1922 and then HMSDunedin in 1924. HMS Diomede and the minesweeper HMS Wakakura arrived in 1926. Between...
24 November and 3 December 1941 Mohr sank the British light cruiser HMSDunedin and the steamer Sagadahoc. On 14 March 1942 British Resource was sunk...
the Iron Cross. She was sunk on 22 November 1941 by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire. Commerce raiders do not seek to engage warships, but rather attack...
Cause HMSDunedin (96) Atlantic Ocean 24 November 1941 Sunk by U-124 HMS Durban (D99) off Normandy 9 June 1944 Deliberately scuttled as breakwater HMS Neptune...
glow from the fires attracted the attention of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Arawa, which passed through the engagement site around midnight in pursuit...
HMS Audacity was a British escort carrier of the Second World War and the first of her kind to serve in the Royal Navy. She was originally the German...
For instance, from July to November 1940, the British cruisers HMS Fiji and HMSDunedin maintained a watch to ensure that the French aircraft carrier Béarn...
Cemetery, Wellington, on 26 September 1930, with full naval honours; HMSDunedin (which happened to be in port at the time) provided twelve men for the...
MV Dunedin Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1935–36 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class...
Faroe Islands when it was intercepted by two British cruisers (HMS Calypso and HMSDunedin). According to his orders in such a situation, the captain sank...
years, including the cruisers HMS Achilles and HMS Leander, the training minesweeper HMS Wakakura, and the cruiser HMS Philomel which was recommissioned...
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