The Dunluce Castle was a passenger steamer put into service in 1904, which was used by the British shipping company Union-Castle Line in passenger and mail traffic between Great Britain and South Africa . It was sold in 1939 and finally scrapped in Scotland in 1945 .
The ship
Two Navy lieutenants aboard HMS Dunluce Castle during World War II.
The Dunluce Castle ran on 31 March 1904 by the stack and was completed on 15 September 1904th In the same month she left London on her maiden voyage to South Africa. In January 1910 she made her first trip on the route from London via Cape Town and Delagoa Bay to Mombasa . From August 1914, the Dunluce Castle was used as a troop transport in the First World War . In July 1915 she was converted into a hospital ship with 755 beds and was used in Gallipoli and Moudros and later East Africa . In 1916 she was also active in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic .
In April 1919, the Dunluce Castle was transferred back to the Union-Castle Line and resumed its regular passenger service to South Africa. From 1931 she operated the Round Africa service. In July 1939, the ship was sold for demolition, but was bought by the British government and used as a living and supply ship first in Kingston upon Hull and Immingham and later in Scapa Flow during the Second World War . After the end of the war there was no longer any need for the ship. It was built in 1945 by Thomas W. Ward Shipbreakers Ltd. scrapped in Inverkeithing .
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