Capetown Castle
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• Paper weight: 200 g/m²
• Giclée printing quality
• Premium paper sourced from Japan
• Sharp, high-quality images with vibrant colours
• Paper weight: 200 g/m²
• Giclée printing quality
• Premium paper sourced from Japan
• Sharp, high-quality images with vibrant colours
Capetown Castle (Yard No. 986) was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast in 1938 for the Union-Castle Line, a company famous for its lavender-hulled liners that sailed between England and South Africa. After the outbreak of war, the government introduced the Liner Requisition Scheme and Capetown Castle was taken up for conversion into a troop ship. In 1943 she took part in Operation Bolero, the build-up of troops in preparation for D-Day, and was eventually returned to her owners in 1946, having carried over 164,000 troops. The ship was refurbished at Belfast and returned to passenger service in 1947. On 17 October 1960 the ship was arriving at Las Palmas when an explosion occurred in the engine room killing seven crewmen. She was broken up in 1967.
