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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| KINFAUNS CASTLE |
110173 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1899 |
12/05/1898 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
Fairfield |
407 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 9664 grt / 5063 nrt / |
515.3 ft |
59.2 ft |
34.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| Twin Q4cyl (28, 39¾, 57½, 82 x 60in), 1663nhp 9800ihp, 2-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Castle Mail Packets Co Ltd - mng D Currie & Co, London |
London |
15/08/1899 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1900 Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London - same managers
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| Vessel history |
1903 9664grt 5032nrt; 1920 9656grt 4927nrt
8/1914 requisitioned by Admiralty and commissioned as armed merchant cruiser HMS KINFAUNS CASTLE
1/1915 decommissioned, served as troopship
1/1918 returned to owners
7/1918 requisitioned by Admiralty to serve as a minelayer, but conversion not completed
2/1919 returned to owners |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1927 |
Broken Up 03/10/1927 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Arrived at Rotterdam delivered to NV Frank Rijsdijk's Industrieele Ondernemingen for demolition at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. |
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Kinfauns Castle
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