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RMS Kenilworth Castle (1903)

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after the two lifeboats they were in got swamped while they were trying to evacuate in the misunderstanding that the ship had been torpedoed. The ship was subsequently repaired from June 1918 to July 1919, by which time it was returned to commercial service, retaking her old route.
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after it herself tried to avoid a collision with another vessel in the convoy who had changed its course. A number of live depth charges which were stored on the destroyer's stern went overboard and exploded underneath
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and launched on 15 December 1903 before being completed on 19 May 1904. The ship was 173.78 metres (570 ft 2 in) long and had a beam of 19.71 metres (64 ft 8 in). It was assessed at
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and had 2 x 4 Cyl steam engines driving two screw propellers. The ship could reach a speed of 17.5 knots. It had a sistership named
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in convoy at 12.30 am on 4 June 1918 with all its lights out, when it collided with the stern of the
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its stern. The ship was badly damaged but remained afloat and reached nearby
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was withdrawn from service in May 1936 and ultimately scrapped at
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as a troopship and took part in the famous six ship Union-Castle
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mainly served on the Union-Castle line's mail service between
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and were the first mail steamers ordered by the newly merged
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Kenilworth Castle
Union-Castle Line
London
United Kingdom
Harland & Wolff
Official number
Passenger ship
GRT
Southampton
Cape Town
Passenger ship
Union-Castle Line
troop transport
First World War
Titanic
lookout
Reginald Lee
Harland & Wolff
Belfast
United Kingdom
GRT
Armandale Castle
Union-Castle Line
Southampton
United Kingdom
Cape Town
South Africa
World War I
Admiralty

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