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词条 HMS Dundee (L84)
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  1. Service history

  2. See also

  3. Notes

  4. References

  5. External links

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HMS Dundee was a Royal Navy sloop of World War II. The ship saw service primarily as a convoy escort in the Atlantic. She was sunk by a German submarine while escorting one of these convoys in September 1940.

Some sources place Dundee in {{sclass-|Falmouth|sloop|4}}, others that she was part of the {{sclass-|Shoreham|sloop|4}}, which was derived from the {{sclass-|Bridgewater|sloop|4}}. Others make the ship to be part of Bridgewater class. She was built in Kent and launched in 1932.

Service history

Dundee served as an escort for convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic. She was sunk at 00.25 hours on 15 September 1940 by the most successful German submarine of the war, {{GS|U-48|1939|2}}, commanded at that time by Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Bleichrodt.

U-48 attacked a convoy, SC 3, of which Dundee was the only escort. U-48 missed the British merchant ship Empire Soldier, but later torpedoed and sank Dundee, commanded by Capt. O.M.F. Stokes, RN, in position 56º45'N, 14º14'W, off Northern Ireland.

The Imperial War Museum has a recording from its sound archives of W J H Mills, a Canadian serving with the Royal Navy on Dundee, describing the sinking. In the recording he recounts "The blast was so severe that it tore the lockers away from the bulkhead mess – we knew we’d been hit – there was no mistaking it."

See also

  • Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
  • List of shipwrecks in 1940

Notes

References

  • {{cite book|last=Hague|first=Arnold|title=Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946|year=1993|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Kendal, England|isbn=0-905617-67-3}}

External links

  • Uboat.net on HMS Dundee (L84)
  • An image of HMS Dundee
  • An image of HMS Bridgewater, a ship of the same or a similar class as HMS Dundee
  • Ports visited by HMS Dundee from April 1933 to October 1935 – Recorded by Chief Petty Officer Joseph Henry Bubb
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