Pendennis Castle (ship)
 The Pendennis Castle in Cape Town harbor, December 1969
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The Pendennis Castle was a passenger ship of the British shipping company Union-Castle Line , which entered service in January 1959. The Pendennis Castle was considered the predecessor of the Transvaal Castle and Windsor Castle , which were put into service a little later. The Pendennis Castle remained in service until 1976 and was then sold to Asia , where it was used until 1980. In the same year, the ship arrived in Taiwan for scrapping .
history
The Pendennis Castle was the shipyard number 1558 at Harland & Wolff in Belfast built and launched in December 24, 1957th The ship was completed on November 14, 1958 and put into service as the new flagship of the Union-Castle Line on January 1, 1959 on the route from Southampton to Cape Town .
In 1960 and 1961 the Pendennis Castle was supplemented by the similar ships Windsor Castle and Transvaal Castle , which were an enlarged version of the ship. In 1964 Pendennis Castle was modernized and from now on it was fully air-conditioned in all public rooms and cabins. In May 1968 a fire broke out on board Pendennis Castle , which was just in the port of Southampton.
In the years to come, the liner service to South Africa became unprofitable, which is why the Pendennis Castle ended its last journey on June 14, 1976 and was retired. In July 1976 the Union-Castle Line sold the ship to Hong Kong .
The ship was renamed Ocean Queen and was to be converted to a cruise ship, but this was never realized. Instead, it moved in 1978 after two years Aufliegezeit again the owner and was in Sinbad I renamed. The owner was now a shipowner based in Liberia . However, the ship did not get under way again, but was instead sold to Kaohsiung for scrapping in 1980 , where it arrived on April 16, 1980.