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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
BRAEMAR CASTLE |
108381 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1898 |
23/02/1898 |
7/1898 |
Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
Clydeholm Yard |
409 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
6266 grt / 3964 nrt / |
450.0 ft |
52.2 ft |
22.5 ft |
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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 |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Castle Mail Packets Co Ltd - mng D Currie & Co, London |
London |
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Other names |
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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 |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1924 |
Broken Up 12/10/1924 |
Disposal Detail |
Arrived at Genoa for breaking up |
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BRAEMAR CASTLE & IONA at Gravesend
Image courtesy of : photo F C Gould
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BRAEMAR CASTLE as a hospital ship
Image courtesy of : photo F G O Stuart
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BRAEMAR CASTLE on the Clyde
Image courtesy of : Jackie Ball
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BRAEMAR CASTLE
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