SS Dundee
| History | |
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| Name: | SS Dundee |
| Operator: | Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company, Dundee |
| Builder: | Caledon, Dundee |
| Yard number: | 221 |
| Launched: | 24 August 1911 |
| Completed: | November 1911 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 2 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
Dundee was built by Caledon shipbuilders at their Dundee yards and was launched on 24 August 1911. She was completed in November that year and entered service with the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company and sailed for them until the outbreak of the First World War, when she was requisitioned for use as an ocean boarding vessel. 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 with HMS Achilles, when the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopard was stopped. Dundee sent out a boat to inspect the disguised vessel, upon which Leopard opened fire and forced Dundee to move away. Achilles then opened fire on Leopard, sinking her in the Action of 16 March 1917.
On 2 September 1917 she was sighted sailing off the Isles of Scilly by UC-49. Dundee was torpedoed and sunk.