More about Andrew Small Fenwick

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

Andrew has no known grave but is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. He was serving aboard H.M.S. Dundee which was a cargo/passenger vessel built by the Caledon Ship Yard in Dundee and launched in 1911. She was converted to an armed boarding vessel for the Royal Navy when on 02.09.1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UC-49, S.W. of the Scilly Isles with the loss of 9 crew.

Andrew S. Fenwick   H.M.S. Dundee

FENWICK^___Drowned at sea, on the 2d September, Leading Stoker Andrew S. Fenwick, youngest son of the late John Fenwick, goods checker, Dundee West, 59 Blackscroft Dundee.  Inserted by his nieces Nellie and Ina.

Dundee People’s Journal 15th September 1917

Andrew S Fenwick was the youngest son of Mr John Fenwick who was the Goods Checker at Dundee West Station. Son at 59 Blackscroft, daughter Helen Yule at 46 Hilltown, Dundee, also son at 145 Princes Street, Dundee. HMS Dundee was an Armed Boarding Vessel and was deployed for several months patrolling the seas far to the north of the Shetland Islands searching for ships trying to break the blockade of vessels trying to get supplies through to Germany. The Dundee was sunk by the German submarine UC-49 in South West Approaches to the English Channel and Andrew Fenwick died in the sinking. There is a report in the Peoples Journal of 15 September 1917. HMS Dundee was awarded a Battle Honour for her part in the sinking of the German Commerce Raider Leopard. Prior to the outbreak of war she was owned by the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company. Two other Dundee men, Thomas Brodie and James Lavery were lost in the sinking. Andrew Fenwick is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Iain Stewart and Iain Birnie