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RMMV Stirling Castle
British ocean liner (1935–1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see Stirling Castle (ship).
RMMV Stirling Castle was a British ocean liner of the Union-Castle Line built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Southampton to South Africa mail service. She was launched on 15 August 1935 and was the first of two identical sister ships, being joined a few months later by the Athlone Castle.
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Name | RMMV Stirling Castle |
Namesake | Stirling Castle |
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Port of registry | London, ![]() |
Route | Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Yard number | 941[1] |
Laid down | 1 May 1934 |
Launched | 15 August 1935 |
Christened | Mrs Robertson Gibb |
Completed | 29 January 1936[1] |
Maiden voyage | 7 February 1936 |
Out of service | 30 November 1965 |
Homeport | Southampton |
Fate | Broken up at Mihara, Japan, 1966 |
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Type | Passenger liner |
Tonnage | 25,550 gross register tons (GRT) (1946, 25,554 GRT) |
Length | 725 ft (221 m) |
Beam | 82 ft (25 m) |
Draught | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Installed power | 4650 HP |
Propulsion | 2 Burmeister & Wain 10-cylinder, two-stroke double-acting marine diesels, twin screws. |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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A third, slightly larger, ship of the class, the Capetown Castle, joined them in 1938.
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