Torpedoed by U-46 on 27 August 1940; sank 28 August 1940
General characteristics
Tonnage
15,007 GRT
tonnage under deck 11,585
9,174 NRT
Length
540.0 ft (164.6 m)
Beam
71.9 ft (21.9 m)
Draught
28 ft 2 in (8.59 m)
Depth
37.8 ft (11.5 m)
Decks
3
Installed power
1,931 NHP
Propulsion
2-stroke diesel
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity
258 1st class and 250 tourist class passengers (1936–39)
Sensors and processing systems
direction finding equipment;
echo sounding equipment;
submarine signalling equipment
Armament
as AMC:
BL 6 inch Mk XII naval guns
QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns
Notes
sister ship: Dunnottar Castle
HMS Dunvegan Castle was a UK ocean liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the Second World War. Harland and Wolff built her and her sister ship Dunnottar Castle in Belfast in 1936.
Union-Castle Line operated Dunvegan Castle on scheduled services between Southampton and South Africa until 1939. When war broke out she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and commissioned as HMS Dunvegan Castle.
She escorted Allied convoys from Sierra Leone to Britain from January 1940. In August 1940, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-46, a German submarine, in the Western Approaches, killing 27 of her crew.
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