SS Balmoral Castle
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History | |
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Name | SS Balmoral Castle |
Owner | Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Co. Ltd., London |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
Yard number | 468 |
Launched | 13 Nov 1909 |
Completed | 17 Feb 1910 |
In service | 1910 |
Out of service | 1939 |
Fate | broken up 19 Jun 1939 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger ship |
Tonnage | 13,361 tons |
Length | 570.0 ft |
Beam | 64.5 ft |
Depth | 38.9 ft |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.5 km/h) |
Contents
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.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 1 February - 18 March 1918
- Albert Edgar Bishop
- Albert Edward Victor Byfield
- Benjamin Jones
- Edward Joseph King
- Benjamin Arthur McEvoy
- William Edward McKenna
- Alfred Slee
- Frederick White