Name Armadale Castle Completed 1903 Launched 11 August 1903 | Yard number 424 Class and type Passenger vessel Length 174 m | |
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Owner Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London Status arrived for scrapping 12 June 1936 Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | ||
SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London, the first ship ordered for the newly formed company.
Armadale Castle was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy 2 August 1914. She was returned to commercial service in 1919. She was laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd.
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