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Name | SS Balmoral Castle |
Builder/Built | 1909 |
Type | Passenger ship (twin screw) |
Displacement | 13,361 tons |
Speed | 16.5 knots |
Remarks
Owned by Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company and used on the South African Mail Service run.
Operated in Australian waters returning troops from Europe during 1918- 1919.
Also served during WW2 as a troop transport, until scraped in 1939.