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Revision as of 19:39, 10 December 2021
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| History | |
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| Name | SS_Kildonan Castle |
| Owner | Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd. - D. Currie & Co., London |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Yard number | 408 |
| Launched | 22 Aug 1899 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger Liner |
| Tonnage | 9,692 tons |
| Length | 515.3 ft |
| Beam | 59.2 ft |
| Depth | 34.7 ft |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
Remarks
Owned by the Union Castle Line. Before her fit out was complete she was rushed into service to carry British troops to the Boer War. When finished she could carry 250 first class, 200 second class and 136 third class passengers.
Commissioned as a Hospital Ship on 6 Oct 1915 with 603 beds before being converted for use as an armed merchant cruiser managed by he Admiralty in March 1916. In Decemer 1918 she commenced repatriation duties, and notably in 1919 when the Allies had entered northern Russia in support of the White Russians, she was the last ship to leave after the Bolshevik's success.
Re-entering peace time service she resumed the mail run before being laid up in 1926 and eventually broken up for scrap on 18 May 1931 at Stavanger.