Name: | DUNEDIN |
Type: | Cruiser |
Keel: | 05/11/1917 |
Launched: | 19/11/1918 |
Completed: | 26/09/1919 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 938 |
Dimensions: | 4850disp - 5925disp, 445.0 x 46.5 x 14.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR Geared, 40000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 29.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 6 x 1 x 6.0ins, 3 x 1 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 1 x 2pdr AA guns; 4 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
26/09/1919 | British Royal Navy |
24/11/1941 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the Danae Class of light cruisers |
1919: Completed by Devonport Dockyard | |
24/11/1941: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U124, NE of Recife, Brazil |
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