Union-Castle Line - Athlone Castle - Stirling Castle

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Athlone Castle, Stirling Castle and Capetown Castle

The Athlone Castle (25,564 grt, 725 ft. long) sailed on the mail run to Cape Town
from 1936 alongside her sister the Stirling Castle (25,550 grt, 725 ft. long), completed a few moths earlier.
Both served as troop transports during the war and continued on the mail run until broken up in the mid-1960s.

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The Athlone Castle departing from Cape Town.

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The Stirling Castle after WW2, arriving at Fremantle with returning Australian troops.

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The Stirling Castle departing from Cape Town.

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Interior views of the Athlone Castle in a c. 1937 brochure.

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From a 1953 brochure featuring accomodation plans of the Athlone Castle and Edinburgh Castle.

The Capetown Castle (27,002 grt, 734 ft. long) was the last of the larger Union-Castle liners to enter service before the war.
Another troop transport during the war, she also continued on the mail run well into the 1960s, being sold for scrap in 1967.

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The Capetown Castle leaving Table Bay on June 23, 1955.

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Detail of cover from a 1956 Union-Castle Line Map of Africa.

(Images from the collection of Raymond Reynolds - marked RR)

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This page last updated December 18, 2005.