SS Armadale Castle
SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London, the first ship ordered for the newly formed company.
 RMS Armadale Castle around 1904 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | Armadale Castle |
| Owner: |
 Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan |
| Yard number: | 424 |
| Launched: | 11 August 1903 |
| Completed: | 1903 |
| Fate: | Arrived for scrapping 12 June 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Passenger vessel |
| Tonnage: | 12973 grt |
| Length: | 570 ft 1 in (173.76 m) |
| Beam: | 64 ft 3 in (19.58 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam, twin screw, two shaft quadruple expansion |
| Notes: | role: UK - Africa Royal Mail Steamer |
Armadale Castle was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy 2 August 1914. She was returned to commercial service in 1919. She was laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd.[1]
See also
References
- Clydebuilt Database - Shipping Times, Stuart Cameron
External links
- Shipping Times: Clydebuilt Database
- "Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1 Era - HMS Armadale Castle". Retrieved 22 January 2012. Transcribed logbooks August 1914 to April 1918
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