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HMHS Braemar Castle

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His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Braemar Castle
History
United Kingdom
NameHMHS Braemar Castle
OwnerUnion-Castle Line
OperatorUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Navy
Port of registryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
BuilderBarclay Curle
Yard number409
Launched23 February 1898
Completed1898
In service1915 (hospital ship)
Out of service1924
FateSold for scrap, 1924
General characteristics
Tonnage6266 GRT
Capacity3309

SS Braemar Castle was a passenger-cargo steamship, built for Castle Line in 1898, that spent more of her time in British government service than working for her owners. She served both as a troopship and as a hospital ship, prefixed HMT and HMHS respectively, before, during and after the First World War.

She was built in 1898 and originally served as a passenger liner with the Union-Castle Line, sailing from Southampton to South Africa.[1] At the start of the Second Boer War, and from 1909, she served as a troopship and was requisitioned for the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and in Gallipoli in 1915.[1] Later in 1915, she was converted to a hospital ship, hitting a mine (laid by SM U-73) in the Aegean Sea on 23 November 1916 and being repaired at La Spezia.[2] She continued to serve as a hospital ship, sailing to Murmansk in 1918 and staying until 1920,[1] the last non-Russian ship to leave Archangel. After a brief return to commercial service, Braemar Castle was again requisitioned as a troopship for the peace-keeping force during the Greco-Turkish War.[1] She was sold for demolition in Italy in 1924.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Newall 1999, p. 100
  2. ^ Wynn 2018, p. 39.
  3. ^ "Roll of Honour - Ships - HMHS Braemar Castle". www.roll-of-honour.com. Retrieved 25 February 2019.

References

  • Newall, Peter (1999). Union-Castle Line: A Fleet History. London: Carmania Press. ISBN 0-9534291-4-8.
  • Wynn, Stephen (2018). Against All Odds: Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781526704078.