MV Carnarvon Castle
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Name | Carnarvon Castle |
Owner | Union-Castle Line |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 595[1] |
Launched | 14 January 1926 |
Completed | 26 June 1926[1] |
Commissioned | 9 October 1939 |
Decommissioned | December 1943 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1963 |
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Beam | 73 ft 6 in (22.40 m) |
Installed power | 3,364 nhp |
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Crew | 350 |
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MV Carnarvon Castle was an
Construction and early career
Carnarvon Castle was built by
War service
Carnarvon Castle was at
Carnarvon Castle's career as an armed merchant cruiser came to an end when she was decommissioned in December 1943. There were plans to convert her into an aircraft carrier but these were abandoned and she underwent a conversion to a troopship at New York City in 1944. She remained on trooping duties after the war and was finally released from naval service in March 1947. Returned to her original owners, she was back on the route to South Africa by June 1947. With her trooping accommodation only marginally upgraded, she carried a flood of post war emigrants from Britain on low cost assisted passages to East and South Africa.[5] She was again refitted, to more luxurious standards, by Harland and Wolff in early 1949. Resuming service on 15 June 1950, she served until her retirement and sale. She arrived at Mihara, Japan on 8 September 1963 and was scrapped.
References
- ^ ISBN 9780752488615.
- New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2009., made a formal diplomatic protest this afternoon against...
The German Government, through its Minister in Montevideo, Otto Langmann
- ISBN 0-275-96685-2.
- New York Times. 9 December 1940. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
The British auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon Castle, hit twenty-two times in a battle with a German sea raider, was being repaired tonight with steel plates reportedly taken from the scuttled German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
- ISBN 0-85177-400-8.
Bibliography
- Osborne, Richard; Spong, Harry & Grover, Tom (2007). Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878–1945. Windsor, UK: World Warship Society. ISBN 978-0-9543310-8-5.