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| Career |
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| Name: |
SS Armadale Castle |
| Owner: |
Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London |
| Builder: |
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan |
| Yard number: |
424 |
| Launched: |
Tuesday, 11th August 1903 |
| Completed: |
1903 |
| Status: |
Arrived for Scrapping - 12 June 1936 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Passenger Vessel |
| Tonnage: |
12973 grt |
| Length: |
570 feet 1 inch |
| Beam: |
64 feet 3 inches |
| Propulsion: |
Steam, Twin Screw, 2 x Quadruple Expansion |
| Notes: |
Ship's Role: UK - Africa Royal Mail Steamer |
SS Armadale Castle was a Passenger Vessel 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.
The SS Armadale Castle became an Armed Merchant Cruiser, requisitioned 2nd August 1914. Back to commercial service in 1919. Laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage and scrapped in 1936 at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Clydebuilt Database - Shipping Times, Stuart Cameron
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