Pretoria Castle (ship, 1948)
The Pretoria Castle in front of Cape Town, 1953
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The Pretoria Castle (II) was a passenger ship of the British Union-Castle Line that entered service in 1948. The ship, which was sold to Safmarine as SA Oranje in 1966 , remained in service until 1975 and was then scrapped in Taiwan .
history
The Pretoria Castle was under the hull number 1332 at Harland & Wolff in Belfast built and left to pile on 19 August 1947th After the takeover on July 10, 1948, the ship was put into service in the liner service from London to Durban . The Pretoria Castle , together with her identical sister ship Edinburgh Castle, was the first new construction of the Union-Castle Line after the Second World War .
In 1962 the Pretoria Castle was modernized. Among other things, the main mast was removed and replaced by a new mast on the bridge of the ship. The foremast was shortened to the height of the chimney.
After 18 years in service for Union-Castle, the ship and the Transvaal Castle , which was commissioned in 1961, became the property of Safmarine in 1966 , who renamed it SA Oranje and continued to use it on its old service route.
In 1975 SA Oranje was retired after 27 years of service and sold to Kaohsiung for scrapping , where it arrived on November 2, 1975. The Edinburgh Castle stayed in service for a year longer and was then also scrapped in Kaohsiung.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on greatships.net (English)
- the Pretoria Castle and Edinburgh Castle on timetableimages.com (English)