HMS Dunedin

HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy with the pennant number D93. Armstrong Whitworth launched her at its Newcastle upon Tyne yard on 19 November 1918 and she was commissioned on 13 September 1919. She was the only Royal Navy ship to carry the name Dunedin. In October 1920 she was sent to Danzig to protect the unloading of munitions intended for Poland, and in 1931 she helped the town of Napier, New Zealand, after the Hawkes Bay earthquake. Early in the Second World War she joined the hunt for the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, intercepted German merchant ships in the Caribbean, and in June 1941 captured the tanker Lothringen together with the Enigma cipher machines it carried. On 24 November 1941 two torpedoes from the German submarine U-124 sank her in the central Atlantic, and only four officers and 63 men of her crew of 486 survived.