Edinburgh Castle (1910 ship)

Edinburgh Castle
History
United Kingdom
Name	Edinburgh Castle
Namesake	Edinburgh Castle
Owner	Union-Castle Line
Operator	Union-Castle 1910–14, 1919–39 Royal Navy 1914–18, 1939–45
Port of registry	London
Route	England – South Africa
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	410
Launched	27 January 1910
Completed	April 1910
Maiden voyage	21 May 1910
Identification	UK official number 129088 code letters HQSW (until 1933) call sign GLVR (from 1934)
Fate	Sunk 25 September 1945
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	13,326 GRT, 7,364 NRT
Length	570.2 ft (173.8 m)
Beam	64.7 ft (19.7 m)
Depth	38.7 ft (11.8 m)
Decks	4
Installed power	2,174 NHP
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h) service speed
Capacity	810 passengers 155,736 cu ft (4,410 m3) refrigerated cargo
Armament	8 × QF 6-inch naval guns
Notes	sister ship: Balmoral Castle

Edinburgh Castle was a Union-Castle Line steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship that was launched in 1910 and sunk in 1945. In peacetime she was in liner service between Great Britain and South Africa.

Edinburgh Castle was an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the First World War and an accommodation ship in the Second World War.

She was the first of two Union-Castle liners called Edinburgh Castle. The second was launched in 1948 and scrapped in 1976.^[1]