 She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Dunedin" (named for the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised as Edinburgh).In October 1920 she, with the other three British vessels, was sent to assure protection of the unloading of munitions intended for Poland, at Danzig.In 1931 she provided assistance to the town of Napier, New Zealand, after the strong Hawkes Bay earthquake, in a task force with the sloop and the cruiser .