Dover Castle (2)

VQHD

Dover Castle was built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 443, in 1904 and launched 4th February 1904.

Her propulsion was steam, quadruple expansion engines, 969 nhp, 14.5 knots. She was built as a Passenger/Cargo Vessel for Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London with tonnage of 8,271.

She was converted to a hospital ship in World War 1 becoming HMHS Dover Castle.

She was sunk by UC.67 on 26th May 1917, when 50 miles north of Bone on passage Malta for Gibraltar.

The first torpedo struck her, killing seven stokers. HMS CAMELON took off the wounded and crew.

Dover Castle's captain and a volunteer crew remained on board hoping they could save the ship but an hour later the sub struck again and she sank in three minutes.

Save for the stokers killed, everyone else was saved.

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Torpedoed and Sunk in The Mediterranean - 1917

Dover Castle

Left Malta

For Gibraltar

Lost 26 May 1917

Fate

Master

T Wilford

Survived

Firemen & Trimmers

O W Barrett

C T Bartley

G C Brand

W G Kentchen

W Munday

H G Taylor

All Lost

Bathman

A H Moor

Lost

Dover Castle was a 8,271 GRT steam passenger/cargo ship (ref) completed in 1904 by Barclay, Curle & Co. for Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. and managed by D.Currie & Co.

She was sunk on 26 May 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine UC-67 at position 37° 45' N, 07° 36' E - approximately 50 nautical miles North of Bona, Algeria.

She was en route from Malta to Gibraltar.

Vessel

Built

Service

Tonnage

Dover Castle (2)

1904

1904 Deployed to TheWest Coast Intermediate Service

1914 Requisitioned for Trooping duties

1915 Commissioned as hospital ship HMHS Dover Castle

1917 Torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean

8271

Official Number

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

118409

Barclay Curle

Glasgow

Barclay Curle

Glasgow

2 x Quadruple Expansion Steam

5200 IHP

2

Master

From

To

G W Armstrong

4/1904

2/1905

R Walls

6/1905

12/1905

T C Clinock

1/1906

9/1912

H M Cruise

9/1908

10/1908

A S Knight

10/1912

12/1912

T Chope

12/1912

6/1913

E A Sylvester

8/1913

9/1913

D Samuel

9/1913

7/1914

B A Bryan

11/1913

2/1914

J N Culverwell

8/1914

12/1915

T H Wilford

12/1916

5/1917

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