Reunion and Remembrance Service, Sunday 23rd November 2025

Members of the HMS Dunedin Society gathered at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial on Southsea Common on Sunday 23^rd November to pay tribute to the men of HMS Dunedin. Despite a chilly wind, the weather was kinder than last year and, thankfully, chose to stay dry. In a short remembrance service, thirty-nine members of the Society paid their respects to the 419 men who lost their lives after HMS Dunedin was struck by two torpedoes on 24^th November 1941. They also remembered the sixty-seven survivors, none of whom are with us anymore.

Check back here later for more photos. In the meantime, thank you to everyone who attended. 

Another important date for your diary: the 85th Anniversary of the loss of HMS Dunedin, Saturday 21st November 2026. On this day, we shall hold a Remembrance Service at the Royal Naval Memorial, Southsea, and a formal gathering of Dunedin Society members for presentations, discussions and viewing of artefacts and documents. We expect this to be a fairly large meeting, so please put this date in your diary and check back here for updates.   

 The Dunedin Society and USS Indianapolis

Click here to read about our links to our sister organisation. 

Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code”, published in 2003, is the only book on HMS Dunedin. Click here to preview and buy

The Dunedin Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum Needs Your Help

It is rare for us to appeal for funds, but please donate as much or as little as you would like to the Dunedin Society to help us save the permanent memorial to the men of HMS Dunedin. Please use the “Donate” button near the bottom of this page help us preserve this precious memorial to the men of HMS Dunedin. We are aiming to raise £2,500 for its repair and refurbishment. Click here for more details of the work that needs to be done and photos of the memorial. Thank you!

Stuart Gill, author of Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code, has written a two-part article on HMS Dunedin’s World War Two activities, first published in the Bulletin of the Liverpool Maritime Society in June and September 2025. Part I covers Dunedin’s huge success in apprehending around 40,000 tons of enemy shipping in the Atlantic and Caribbean in 1940 and 1941, and Part II tells Dunedin’s story leading up to her tragic loss, the rescue of the survivors, and an extraordinary reunion in 2003. In both parts, you can read about the significance of Enigma material to Dunedin’s operations. Click here for both parts of the article.

The Dunedin Society is our collective organisation designed to keep alive the memories of HMS Dunedin and her men. It is entirely voluntary and free to join and its membership is worldwide. The society organises commemorative events, including the annual 24th November ceremonies. If you wish to find out more or have any information about HMS Dunedin that we could publicise on our website please Contact Us.

Did your relative or ancestor serve in HMS Dunedin?

Have a look on our Ship’s Company page where you will find lists of all the casualties and survivors of the sinking as well as a few names of those who served prior to November 1941. For those members of the ship’s company on whom we have specific information, they have their own pages. We update these pages from time to time with information kindly sent to us and through adding publicly available information gathered by Mr Chris Moran, to whom we are most grateful.