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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GLOUCESTER CASTLE |
132592 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1911 |
13/05/1911 |
08/1911 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
Fairfield |
478 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 7999 grt / 4993 nrt / |
452.7 ft |
56.2 ft |
30.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| Twin Q4cyl (19¾, 28, 41, 60 x 48in), 722nhp 3750ihp, 12knots, 2-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Co. Ltd, London |
London |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
"G"-class liner for Union Castle's initermediate service UK-Cape Town and Mombasa.
412 passengers (87x1st, 130x2nd, 195x3rd)
1914 requisitioned as 410-bed hospital ship
31/3/1917 torpedoed off Isle of Wight by submarine UB 32 (Le Havre for Southampton with patients) - stern holed but did not sink. Repaired at Portsmouth
1920 returned to Union Castle service
1923 converted to two-class: 1st and 3rd.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Gunfire 15/07/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Whilst on a voyage from Birkenhead to Cape Town she was sunk by Commerce Raider HSK9 MICHEL off south west Africa, about 10S - 05W, 1300 miles SE of Freetown with the loss of 93 lives including her Master. Two lifeboats containing 61 people were picked up by the raider and taken to Japan as prisoners, two of whom subsequently died. |
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Off Isle of Wight 1917
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