HMHS Garth Castle
Appearance
![]() Garth Castle before her conversion to hospital ship
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Name | Garth Castle |
Owner | Union-Castle Line (1910-1914) Royal Navy (1914-1939) |
Builder | Barclay Curle, Glasgow |
Yard number | 478 |
Launched | 13 January 1910 |
Commissioned | 4 November 1914 (Royal Navy) |
Out of service | 1939 |
Fate | Broken up, 1939 |
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Tonnage | 7612 GRT |
Length | 452 feet 6 inches |
Beam | 54 feet 3 inches |
Installed power | 647 horsepower |
Propulsion | 2x quadruple expansion steam engine |
Speed | 13 knots |
Capacity | 250 casualties (hospital ship) |
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HMHS Garth Castle was a hospital ship which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Built in 1910 as a passenger liner for the Union-Castle Line, she was commissioned as a hospital ship on 4 November 1914, with a capacity of roughly 250 casualties. The ship took part in the North Russia Intervention in 1918–19.[1]
She was returned to her owners in 1919 and broken up at Blyth, Northumberland in 1939.[2]
See also
[edit]List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy
References
[edit]- ^ "Roll of Honour - Ships - HMHS Garth Castle". www.roll-of-honour.com. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ "Garth Castle". clydeships.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2020.