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S.S. "ALNWICK CASTLE"

1901-1917

                                                                                                                                                         painting by O.G. Keen

"Alnwick Castle" off Rame Head

O.N.:                 114784

Builders:          William Beardmore & Co., Ltd., Glasgow.  (yard No. 336)

Sister ship:      Berwick Castle

Tonnage:         5,893 gross   3,796 net

Dimensions:   length 400.4 x  beam 50.2 x  depth 26.8 feet

Engines:          Triple expansion by builder,  475 h.p.,  3,400 i.h.p.   speed 11.5 knots

Passengers:   12 first, 29 second, 42 third

Launched:       September 27th 1901

Completed:     November 1901

The first of a new series of 'extra' cargo/passenger ships built to meet the anticipated surge in emigrants after the Boer War.   As it turned out the 'Alnwick' was used mostly on the West coast and Mauritius service.

Requisitioned for war service September 26th, 1914 for use as a war transport.

1915 March, arrived at the Dardanelles with men of the Royal Navy Division for the Gallipoli campaign

1916, June 16th.  Returned to company.

1917, March 19th. Torpedoed by German submarine U81

details from Union-Castle, A Fleet History by Peter Newall