HMS Dundee (L84)

Following commissioning, Dundee was assigned to the America and West Indies Station, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, replacing the old sloop Heliotrope.^[5][8] On 11 June 1936, she attempted to salvage the cargo ship Basil, which had run aground off the coast of Brazil on 1 June.^[5][9][10] In October 1935 she recommissioned at Portsmouth before rejoining the America and West Indies Station at Bermuda.^[5]

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, U-48, 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."

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• 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

56°45′N 14°14′W / 56.750°N 14.233°W / 56.750; -14.233