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Dunnottar Castle, Durban Castle and Warwick Castle (ex-Pretoria Castle)
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The Dunnottar Castle (15,007 grt, 560 ft. long) was, like her sister the
Dunvegan Castle (torpedoed in 1940)
and the two slightly larger liners featured below,
built for the around Africa service.
She was built in 1936 and after use as a troop transport
during the war was back on the around Africa service
until being sold to
Incres Line in 1958. Renamed Victoria,
she was extensively rebuilt as a cruise liner.
As The Victoria and later Princesa Victoria, she enjoyed an exceptionally long career and
was only sold for scrap in 2004.
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RRFrom a 1957 brochure featuring the tourist class accomodation on several Union-Castle liners.
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The Durban Castle (17,388 grt, 594 ft. long) was built in 1938 and broken up by 1962.
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The Durban Castle at Port Elizabeth on January 14, 1956, soon to be on her way up the East Coast of Africa.
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From a 1957 brochure featuring the tourist class accomodation on several Union-Castle liners.
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The Pretoria Castle was built in 1939 and saw war service as both an armed merchant
cruiser and an auxiliary aircraft carrier.
She reverted to being a passenger ship after the war,
now renamed Warwick Castle (17, 387 grt, 594 ft. long).
For another 15 years she
sailed on the around Africa service until being scrapped.
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The Pretoria Castle as an auxiliary aircraft carrier.
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From a 1957 brochure featuring the tourist class accomodation on several Union-Castle liners.
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(Images from the collection of Raymond Reynolds - marked RR)
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