Pretoria Castle (ship, 1948)

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Pretoria Castle
The Pretoria Castle in front of Cape Town, 1953
The Pretoria Castle in front of Cape Town, 1953
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) United Kingdom
other ship names

SA Oranje (1966-1975)

Ship type Passenger ship
home port London
Shipping company Union-Castle Line
Shipyard Harland & Wolff , Belfast
Build number 1332
Launch August 19, 1947
takeover July 10, 1948
Commissioning July 1948
Decommissioning 1975
Whereabouts Scrapped in Taiwan in 1975
Ship dimensions and crew
length
227.83 m ( Lüa )
width 25.6 m
Draft Max. 9.75 m
measurement 27,513 GRT
 
crew 400
Machine system
machine 6 × Harland & Wolff steam turbines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		35,000 kW (47,587 hp)
Top
speed 		22 kn (41 km / h)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 882
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO no. 5284352

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.

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