Download Union-Castle Liners: From Great Britain to Africa 1946-1977 by William H. Miller PDF

By William H. Miller

It used to be essentially the most very important British liner routes of all - the specific run from Southampton to the South African Cape. sporting passengers in addition to shipment, together with the all-important mail, it was once a byword in go back and forth - 'every Thursday at 4', as one of many large Union-Castle liners trigger for Cape city and past. through the overdue Nineteen Fifties, those mail ships incorporated the Arundel fortress, Carnarvon citadel, Winchester fort, Athlone fortress, Stirling fortress, Capetown fort and post-war sensations, the Edinburgh fortress and Pretoria fortress. 3 new liners arrived in 1959, the final nice ships equipped for Union-Castle. They have been Pendennis fort, Windsor fort and Transvaal citadel. The direction was once not only to the Cape - for Union-Castle additionally provided a provider down the East coast of Africa and a round-Africa path too. In 1977, with the mail agreement and passengers misplaced to the jet and load to box ships, the carrier ceased in October that 12 months and Union-Castle used to be no more.

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