SS Dunvegan Castle
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History | |
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Name | SS Dunvegan Castle |
Builder/Built | 1896 Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd |
Type | passenger liner, single screw |
Displacement | 5,958 tons |
Remarks
Built for the Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd, London, became a part of the Union Castle Line. Served as a troopship during WW1 and was for a time a makeshift hospital ship in the Dardanelles.
Sold to be broken up in Kiel during 1924.
Soldiers carried
Durban to Fremantle 31 July - 15 August 1919
- John Donaldson Patterson and wife Elizabeth