120536: SS Durham Castle (118387)
The SS Durham Castle was a Passenger Cargo Refrigerated Steamship built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London.
She was sent for scrapping in 1939 but was requisitioned by the Admiralty to be used as a block ship at Scapa Flow. On tow, off Cromarty, on January 26, 1940 the SS Durham Castle was mined and sunk.
Details
- Record Type:
- Boat
- Type Of Boat:
- Passenger/Cargo Refrigerated Steamship
- Registration:
- 118387
- Date Launched:
- 17 Dec 1903
- Record Maintained by:
- CEP