 No trace was found of the "Dunedin" and it was presumed both she and the "Marlborough" hit icebergs in the Southern Ocean.RMS "Rimutaka" had reported that there were great quantities of ice in the Southern Ocean on their normal route between the Chatham Island and Cape Horn when she sailed through the area in early to mid February.The Board of Enquiry concluded that apart from hitting an iceberg another possibility was that the "Dunedin" had come to grief in a storm.