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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| BALMORAL CASTLE |
129074 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1910 |
13/11/1909 |
2/1910 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
Fairfield |
468 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 13361 grt / 7512 nrt / |
570.0 ft |
64.5 ft |
38.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 2xQ4cyl (37"46"66½"96"x60") 2234nhp(LR) 2-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Co. Ltd., London |
London |
17/02/1910 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
10/1910 temporarily comm into the RN manned by naval personnel in order to carry members of the Royal Family for the inauguration of the Union of South Africa.
Chartered as a troopship when in Durban at outbreak of WW1, then later carrying US troops and again taking Australian troops after the War. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1939 |
Broken Up 19/06/1939 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Broken up by John Cashmore Ltd at Newport, Mon. |
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