The Braemar Castle was built under the hull number 1459 as one of three identical sister ships for the service to South Africa at Harland & Wolff in Belfast and launched on April 24, 1952. After the takeover by the Union-Castle Line on November 8, 1952, the ship was put into service on November 22 on the route from London to Durban .
After thirteen years in liner service, the Braemar Castle switched to cruise service in 1965 . After only a few months, however, the ship was finally decommissioned and then sold to Scotland for scrapping. On January 16, 1966, the Braemar Castle met after a lifetime of only fourteen years with Shipbreaking Industries Ltd. into Faslane-on-Clyde , where it was dismantled.
The sister ship Rhodesia Castle remained in service for a year longer before it was also scrapped. Only the Kenya Castle found a new operator and achieved a service life of more than forty years.
