SS Armadale Castle

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.

RMS Armadale Castle around 1904
History
United Kingdom
Name	Armadale Castle
Owner	Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan
Yard number	424
Launched	11 August 1903
Completed	1903
Fate	Arrived for scrapping 12 June 1936
General characteristics
Type	Passenger vessel
Tonnage	12973 grt
Length	570 ft 1 in (173.76 m)
Beam	64 ft 3 in (19.58 m)
Propulsion	steam, twin screw, two shaft quadruple expansion
Notes	role: UK – Africa Royal Mail Steamer

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.^[1]

See also

• Ships built at Govan