HMS Dunedin  HMS "Dunedin" was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy, pennant number D93. She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919. 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 . Early in the Second World War, "Dunedin" was involved in the hunt for the German battleships and after the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser . In early 1940 "Dunedin" was operating in the Caribbean Sea, and there she intercepted the German merchant ship "Heidelberg" west of the Windward Passage. "Heidelberg"s crew scuttled the ship before "Dunedin" could take her. A few days later, "Dunedin", in company with the Canadian destroyer , intercepted and captured the German merchant ship "Hannover" near Jamaica. "Hannover" later became the first British escort carrier, . Between July and November, "Dunedin", together with the cruiser , maintained a blockade off Martinique, in part to bottle up three French warships, including the aircraft carrier . On 15 June 1941, "Dunedin" captured the German tanker "Lothringen" and gathered some highly classified Enigma cipher machines that she carried. The Royal Navy reused "Lothringen" as the fleet oiler "Empire Salvage". "Dunedin" went on to capture three Vichy French vessels, "Ville de Rouen" off Natal, the merchant ship "Ville de Tamatave" east of the St. Paul's Rocks, and finally, "D'Entrecasteaux". "Dunedin" was still steaming in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just east of the St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil, when on 24 November 1941, at 1526 hours, two torpedoes from the sank her. Only four officers and 63 men survived out of "Dunedin"s crew of 486 officers and men.