Wreck of HMS Dunvegan Castle
Shipwreck site
- Position
- About 55° N, 11° W (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised to protect a war grave
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
A military vessel lost in war, by enemy action. Wrecks lost in war are treated as war graves.
This wreck may be the last resting place of those who died aboard. Please treat it with respect.
How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 85%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
HMS Dunvegan Castle was a UK ocean liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the Second World War. Harland and Wolff built her and her sister ship Dunnottar Castle in Belfast in 1936. Union-Castle Line operated Dunvegan Castle on scheduled service between Southampton and South Africa until 1939. When war broke out she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and commissioned as HMS Dunvegan Castle. She escorted Allied convoys from Sierra Leone to Britain from January 1940. In August 1940, she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-46 in the Western Approaches, killing 27 of her crew. The vessel's commander and 249 of his crew were resuced.
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