HMHS Braemar Castle

HMHS Braemar Castle was a hospital ship which served with the Royal Navy in the First World War, as well as serving as a troop ship in the Second Boer War and the Greco-Turkish War.

His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Braemar Castle
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMHS Braemar Castle
Owner: Union-Castle Line
Operator: Royal Navy
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Barclay Curle
Yard number: 409
Launched: 23 February 1898
Completed: 1898
In service: 1915 (hospital ship)
Out of service: 1924
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1924
General characteristics
Tonnage: 6266 GRT
Capacity: 3309

She was built in 1898 and originally served as a passenger liner with the Union-Castle Line, sailing from Southampton to South Africa. At the start of the Boer War, and from 1909, she served as a troop ship, for the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and in Gallipoli in 1915. From 1915, she was converted to a hospital ship, hitting a mine (laid by SM U-73) in the Aegean Sea on 23 November 1916 and being repaired at La Spezia.[1] She continued to serve as a hospital ship until 1922, sailing to Murmansk in 1918 and staying until 1921, the last non-Russian ship to leave Archangel. Braemar Castle continued to serve as a troop ship before being sold for scrap in Italy in 1924.[2]

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Bibliography

Notes

  1. Wynn 2018, p. 39.
  2. "Roll of Honour - Ships - HMHS Braemar Castle". www.roll-of-honour.com. Retrieved 2019-02-25.

References

  • Wynn, Stephen (2018). Against All Odds: Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant. Pen & Sword Books Limited. ISBN 9781526704078.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)



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