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Revision as of 14:13, 26 November 2021

SS Dunvegan Castle
SS Dunvegan Castle.jpg
File:.jpg
History
Name SS Dunvegan Castle
Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Launched 1896
General characteristics
Type passenger liner
Tonnage 5,958 tons
Propulsion sigle screw



Remarks

Built for the Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd, London, became a part of the Union Castle Line. Served as a troopship during WW1 and was for a time a makeshift hospital ship in the Dardanelles.

Sold to be broken up in Kiel during 1924.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to England 13 - 23 Sep 1915

England to Fremantle 4 July - 15 August 1919