SS Dundee

History
Name	SS Dundee
Operator	Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company, Dundee
Builder	Caledon, Dundee
Yard number	221
Launched	24 August 1911
Completed	November 1911
Fate	Sank 3 September 1917
General characteristics
Class and type	Steam passenger/cargo ship
Tonnage	2,187 tons
Length	88.4 m (290 ft 0 in) (p/p)
Beam	12.6 m (41 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Single screw
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

SS Dundee was a steam passenger and cargo ship of the British Merchant Navy. She served during the First World War and was lost in 1917.

Career

See also: Action of 16 March 1917

Dundee was built by Caledon shipbuilders at their Dundee yards and was launched on 24 August 1911. She was completed in November 1911 and entered service with the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company and sailed for them until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when she was requisitioned for use as an armed boarding steamer; as such, she was not a fully commissioned warship of the Royal Navy and did not carry the "HMS" prefix. On 16 March 1917 she was working in the Atlantic Ocean with Royal Navy armoured cruiser HMS Achilles when they stopped the disguised Imperial German Navy auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopard. Dundee sent out a boat to inspect Leopard, upon which Leopard opened fire and forced Dundee to move away. Achilles then opened fire on Leopard, sinking her.

On 2 September 1917, the German submarine UC-49 torpedoed and damaged Dundee in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Isles of Scilly (48°50′N 9°20′W) with the loss of nine members of Dundee′s crew. Dundee sank the next day.

References

• Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Dundee". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net.
• SS Dundee at the Miramar ship index