SS Kenilworth Castle
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History | |
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Name | SS Kenilworth Castle |
Builder/Built | 1904 Harlnd & Wolff, Belfast |
Type | Passenger Liner |
Displacement | 12,974 tons |
Speed | 16.5 knots |
Remarks
Built to carry 255 first class passengers, 269 second class, and 270 third class. Requisitioned in 1914 as a troop ship, sometimes used as a hospital ship.
On 4 Jun 1918 off Plymouth she collided with a British destroyer HMS Rival while zig-zagging. Safely making it into Plymouth she then sank on a mud bank. In 1919 she returned to the mail service to Africa.
Soldiers carried
Southampton to Durban 12 March - 23 April 1918
Sailed on 18 March 1918. In Durban the returning soldiers transferred to the SS Field Marshall for the voyage to Fremantle.