HMHS Glenart Castle
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HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line. She was renamed Glenart Castle in 1914, but was requisitioned for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 26 February 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo fired from the German U-boat UC-56.[1]
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HMHS Glenart Castle, in her wartime service colours | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Galician |
Owner | UK |
Operator | Union-Castle Line |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Cost | 50 Bil |
Yard number | 4637 |
Way number | 098 |
Laid down | 7/6/1900 |
Launched | 20 September 1900 |
Completed | 6 December 1900 |
Identification | 6824 |
Fate | Acquired by Royal Navy in 1914 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Glenart Castle |
Acquired | 1914 |
Fate | Torpedoed, 26 February 1918 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 6,807 GRT |
Length | 400 ft (120 m) |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
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