MV Walmer Castle (1936)
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MV Walmer Castle was a UK cargo liner. She was launched in 1936 in Northern Ireland, and was the smallest ocean-going ship in the Union-Castle Line fleet. For three years she provided a scheduled weekly cargo feeder service linking Union-Castle liners that terminated at Southampton with the German ports of Bremen and Hamburg.
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Name | Walmer Castle |
Namesake | Walmer Castle |
Owner | Union-Castle Line |
Operator | Union-Castle Line |
Port of registry | London |
Route | Southampton – Bremen – Hamburg |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 983 |
Launched | 17 September 1936 |
Completed | 30 November 1936 |
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Type | Cargo liner |
Tonnage | 906 GRT 350 NRT |
Length | 236.2 ft (72.0 m) |
Beam | 39.3 ft (12.0 m) |
Draught | 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m) |
Depth | 12.5 ft (3.8 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 539 NHP |
Propulsion | 2-stroke single-acting diesel engine |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Sensors and processing systems | wireless direction finding |
In the Second World War she first served in the tramp trade with France and in home waters, then in 1940 became an armament supply ship. In 1941 she was converted into a convoy rescue ship. On her first Atlantic convoy an enemy air attack crippled her. After the survivors had abandoned her, Royal Navy ships sank her by gunfire.