RMS Pendennis Castle
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RMS Pendennis Castle was a Royal Mail Ship, passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line. The vessel served the Union-Castle Line from 1959-1976 on a regular route between the UK and South Africa for the Southampton to Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban "Cape Mail" service. After her withdrawal from service and subsequent sale by the Union-Castle Line in 1976, she was re-named consecutively Ocean Queen, Sinbad, then Sinbad I, however she never returned to commercial service after her Union-Castle Line service and was sold for scrap in 1980.
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The ocean liner Pendennis Castle moored at Cape Town in December 1969 | |
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Route | Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Launched | 24 December 1957 |
Christened | 10 December 1957 |
Completed | November 1958 |
Maiden voyage | 1 January 1959 |
Out of service | 14 June 1976 |
Identification | IMO number: 5273808 |
Fate | Scrapped 1980, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 28,582 GRT (1967, 28,453 GRT. 1972, 28,442 GRT) |
Length | 764 ft (233 m) |
Beam | 83.6 ft (25.5 m) |
Draught | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Installed power | 46,000 shaft horsepower |
Propulsion | steam turbines driving twin screws via reduction gearing |
Speed | 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) |
Capacity | 197 First Class, 473 Tourist Class |
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