Winchester Castle
1930
(Albatros AL-31)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 20,109 GRT
- Dimensions: 657 x 75 x 32 ft.
- Machinery: Burmeister & Wain diesel, twin screw, 15,000 BHP = 16 knots
- Passengers: 756 (259 first class, 243 second class, 254 third class)
- Crew: 350
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1930
- Service: Built for Union-Castle Line (British flag). She and her sister Warwick Castle were for the Southampton-South Africa service. Maiden voyage 24 Oct 1930 to Cape Town. Rebuilt 1938 with one funnel and new B&W diesels with 26,000 BHP for a service speed of 20 knots. Troopship, 1940; training ship for troop landings, 1941; landing ship 1942-45. Postwar emigrant service to South Africa, 1947, with capacity for 1,300 passengers. General overhaul, 1948, re-entering Southampton-Cape Town service with accomodations for 189 first class and 398 tourist class. Broken up in Japan, 1960.
Sister Warwick Castle sunk by German submarine U-413 off Portugal, 14 Nov 1942; 63 dead.
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