Screw Steamer BRAEMAR CASTLE built by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. in 1898 for Castle Mail Packets Co Ltd - mng D Currie & Co, London, Passenger / Cargo

Name	Official number	Flag	IMO
BRAEMAR CASTLE	108381	GBR
Year built	Date launched	Date completed
1898	23/02/1898	7/1898
Vessel type	Vessel description
Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated	Steel Screw Steamer
Builder		Yard	Yard no
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow		Clydeholm Yard	409

Tonnage	Length	Breadth	Depth
6266 grt / 3964 nrt /	450.0 ft	52.2 ft	22.5 ft
Engine builder	Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Engine detail
1-screw. Q4Cyl. (28,"39,"57½",82" x 60)in 205lb 756nhp 4400ihp 13½kn, 1-screw

First owner	First port of register	Registration date
Castle Mail Packets Co Ltd - mng D Currie & Co, London	London
Other names

Subsequent owner and registration history
1900 Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London
Vessel history
Built for Castle Line intermediate service 4/9/1898 arrived Cape Town on maiden voyage 14/1/1902 stranded under Gurnard Head, near Cowes, Isle of Wight in fog (Cape Town for Southampton); all 83 passengers taken off. 16/1 refloated, undamaged. 1/1900 carried over 1000 troops to South Africa for the 2nd Boer War 1909 chartered by British Government as a troop transport 1914 requisitionedWW1 s a transport and troopship 1915 converted to a 421-bed hospital ship; 7/10 entered service in the Mediterranean 23/11/1916 struck a mine in the Mykonos Channel and beached at Tinos; four lives lost 1917 refloated and towed to Malta; repaired at La Spezia 1918 deployed as base hospital at Murmansk 1920 briefly returned to commercial service, but after one voyage again requisitioned as a troopship 1922 supported peace-keeping forces during 2nd Greco-Turkish War
Remarks

End year	Fate / Status
1924	Broken Up 12/10/1924
Disposal Detail
Arrived at Genoa for breaking up

BRAEMAR CASTLE & IONA at Gravesend
Image courtesy of : photo F C Gould