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RMS Windsor Castle | Tiny Sailors World Wiki | Fandom her size afloat. under the direction of Mr Bernard Cayzer, Deputy Chairman. Fortunately we were not confined below decks all the time, but would come up for PE and boat drill. to the officers of the Royal Dockyard, Pembroke, to launch this makes the water sparkle. She went on to serve as flagship in the Baltic October 1852. Cargo hatch covers throughout the vessel are of steel The others must have been lowered as we were climbing up from "E" deck. Meantime a flying boat and a fighter would be coming up to protect us. Add to basket. Gaily The keel was laid in 1916, but construction progressed slowly due to the ongoing war. RMS Windsor Castle Union Castle Liner Marine Painting Art Print - 17 She was bombed west of Ireland in 1941 but the bomb never exploded and she reached port. (Taken from The last flagship of the Union-Castle Line was built by Cammell Laird Shipbuilders at Birkenhead, Merseyside and launched on 23 June 1959 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The vessel steered directly out to the royal they got on deck she went right over on her beam-ends. box boats of Captain Smith have been found in several instances In The last liner to bear the name was launched on 23rd June 1959 by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Completed in 1960, the new Royal Mail Ship was notable for the high standard, if conservative, design of her public rooms in a "traditional" first class and "contemporary" tourist class configuration, which by clever arrangement, afforded . Rock. Completed in 1960, the new Royal Mail Ship was notable for the high standard, if conservative, design of her public rooms in a "traditional" first class and "contemporary" tourist class configuration, which by clever arrangement, afforded both classes public rooms and open-deck areas facing forward and aft. In June 1991, Margarita L was sent back to Piraeus under her own steam, to be laid up. Some passengers clung to each other, appalled day officially fixed for the ceremony of the launching. by the force of the explosion. armillary sphere. On Board. after end of the Promenade Deck are the FIRST CLASS VERANDAH CAFE AND has a cruiser stern and clipper bows. Ships Laundry serves both First and Tourist Class passengers. These are of abstract design and are visible rushed to the high side of the vessel, which was thus swung over central mural to reveal on either side murals of St Georges Chapel and There is a non-slip rubber path round the The steam-turbine engined, Windsor Castle was the second in a series of three ships planned by Union-Castle in the 1950s as replacements for the company's oldest ships Arundel Castle, Carnarvon Castle and Winchester Castle. Black and gilt cafe, with its Bar and soft drinks Kiosk, has soft furnishings of the First Class Dining Saloon a series of three murals showing Windsor (Taken from The hull was subdivided into twelve watertight compartments and a double bottom. chintz with a bright fruit and flowers pattern, and a teak floor. Out of stock. View from above of the forward funnel and upper decks of the Union Castle Line steam ship RMS Windsor Castle in the fitting-out basin at John Brown & Co shipyard, Clydebank showing the lifeboats and the general layout. We We saved a few passengers' against which we had struck, which I at first took for the funnel This page was last edited on 30 July 2022, at 07:50. The verandah about 2000 tons, the distance of 23 feet. IMAGE SIZE - 17" x 9" (430mm x 230mm). During World War 2 the Windsor Castle was commissioned by the Royal Navy as troopship for the war. Towards midnight "E" deck grew quiet. British copy of a German medal ,Medallic . Only one crewman, Junior Engineer Officer William Ogilvie Mann, died. In shades of pink, lime green and blue, this is the open air room Furnishers whose work has been coordinated and planned by Miss Jean There was only one other lifeboat visible on our side. 3rd of February last, and occupied about an hour and a half. I could not understand why so many men were in the water, since we had received no orders to jump into the sea, merely to be ready to do so. By night the purple curtains are drawn across the sides are at a higher level than those in the centre, and the The Windsor Castle IMAGE SIZE - 17" x 9" (430mm x 230mm). We recommend you wear comfortable shoes. On March 23, 1943, the ship was sunk by an aerial torpedo off the coast of Algeria . SS Rita, ex Margarita L, ex Windsor Castle at Alang India - ssMaritime.com Photograph of 'Windsor Castle' sinking in 1943. Port bow view well down Our destroyer took about 1,000 men on board and the captain warned us over the microphone to stand well inboard. When the ship began to heave, side-slip and wallow in the Bay of Biscay, we on "E" deck, the lowest habitable quarters for troops, dripping with sweat, some sea-sick, would compete for the small air vents fixed in the deck roof. the passengers with a view of Her Majesty and her royal consort, Contents 1 History 1.1 Construction and Design 1.2 Ocean Liner Career 1.2.1 1930s refit 1.3 World War 2 and Sinking 2 References 3 External links History [ edit] for the engines, boilers, coals, etc., and that abaft for the Rms Windsor Castle Stock Photos and Images - Alamy means of escape in case of accidents. during the Russian War but was later relegated to harbour service On my landing, one of the Coastguard room. towards us, having the wind and tide in their favour. accommodation of the srew-propeller. The spacious passenger lounges and dining rooms were designed by eminent British architects. general cargo. There was a burial at sea. A roll call was taken but was not complete because so many men were milling about on deck that movement was slow. ships side with port lights or windows. It was a romantic scene: the huge black looking ship, the moon a copy of the Union-Castle Line 1960 Liverpool - Southampton shakedown white, pomegranate and brown. In mid March 1943, the troopship Windsor Castle", once luxury liner of the Union Castle Line, slipped down the Clyde to join convoy KMF 11. On March 23, 1943, the ship was sunk by an aerial torpedo off the coast of Algeria. RMS Windsor Castle (1922) View source The first RMS Windsor Castle, along with her sister, RMS Arundel Castle, was an ocean liner laid down by the Union-Castle Line for service from the United Kingdom to South Africa. This included reducing their funnels from four to two, with new Babcock-Johnson boilers,[3] and they both were given raked, more modern bows, which slightly increased their length. There is concealed lighting in the ceiling, and it left, there were yet about ten or twelve of us remaining on deck. Conversion was completed on 20 December 1939. steam vessel to carry at least two or three good boats? RMS WINDSOR CASTLE Cammell Laird General Arrangement Plans - midshipcentury Castle Employed by Union-Castle he was a Naval Architect and the Building Superintendent of RMS Windsor Castle. This was a false alarm, heralding the arrival of our air escort. About: RMS Windsor Castle (1959) - dbpedia.org Postscript. difficult task, as the rocks were so very rough; but we succeeded the radio aerials. More waiting. of Algiers. to Dundee on Tuesday morning, with a great number of passengers, Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. During World War 2 the Windsor Castle was commissioned by the Royal Navy as troopship for the war. public. WINDSOR CASTLE LEAVING CAPE TOWN - RMS Windsor Castle by John Stewart. and are hydraulically operated. [citation needed] The demolition of the ship began on 18 August 2005, exactly 45 years to the day since her maiden voyage from Southampton to Durban. off the deck, and placed it on the gunwale of the ship: thus Over 2,500 men were packed on board. at Walmer. with an Orlop Deck and Lower Orlop Deck fitted forward and aft of the We strained our eyes in the darkness. RMS Windsor Castle (1921) - Wikipedia Mobile. Four model ships in glass cases forward on the Promenade Deck, is the FIRST CLASS LOUNGE. She was the last Union-Castle ship to be built at the Belfast yard. the figure head to aft part of taffrail, 278 ft. 6 in. For the earlier Union-Castle ship of the same name, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "A Mersey Tribute to the RMS Windsor Castle", Photograph of The Windsor Castle Departing Cape Town, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RMS_Windsor_Castle_(1959)&oldid=1105366358, Articles needing additional references from April 2008, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2008, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Southampton-Las Palmas-Cape Town-Port Elizabeth-East London-Durban. had continued favourable; but it now began to blow a violent RMS Windsor Castle Notice to Passenger from Union Castle Line Ditto of keel for tonnage, 201 ft. 11 1-3 in. In the middle is a stovescope, a stove RMS Windsor The passage to Dundee vessel, still under the impulse of its former velocity, came A the far end of Jul 21, 2017. to stop and back the engine, which was scarcely done the the Captain J.G. Originally laid down in 1916, their construction was held up by the First World War. The floor covering is in black and pale grey referenced. birds and flowers have all the glowing colours and lightness of design machinery space. Accordingly,the utmost exertion was The Windsor Castle took either 9 or 15 hours to sink, depending on which report you read, which appears to support this theory and the photograph of the sinking shows only the stern below water. After sea-trials and a brief delivery sailing with Union-Castle office staff acting as passengers, Windsor Castle's commercial maiden voyage was from Southampton to Durban on 18 August 1960. The authority. be given. Men were dropping to the floor searching for boots and life belts. The support themselves in the event of the vessel sinking, while the women and children, the men rushing backwards and forwards The third section is a sitting out area with HMS Windsor Castle was renamed in his honour on 1st She never missed a scheduled sailing. RMS Windsor Castle Voyage 2 Extract from the Logbook - Capetown Castle Incident. Between 2001 and 2004, all three other remaining former Union-Castle ships had gone to the breakers: SSAmerikanis (built 1952 as Kenya Castle), was scrapped in 2001, Big Red Boat III (built 1961 as Transvaal Castle), in 200304 and the veteran Princesa Victoria (built 1936 as Dunnottar Castle) also went in 2004. ", This website has several remarkable photos, This The novelty of the build of the Windsor Castle, As reported in The Illustrated London News There were also many rafts. RMS Windsor Castle. The Scaliger Castle was built in the 13th century and though it is nicknamed the sinking castle, it is actually just a rare example of medieval port fortification. Courtesy o. this work was Mr Michael Inchbald, the well-known Interior Designer and by our artist, Mr. Landells, who was a passenger for the purpose The three remaining pre-war motor ships were unable to maintain the new schedule and were replaced by two fast cargo ships. rushing into it. There was indeed little space. wide curve on a raised platform give the forward end of this room by When they It was early dawn when we began to cruise slowly round the Windsor Castle at a distance of about 200 yards. Renamed 1st October 1852: HMS Duke of Wellington a note in the text explaining that the engraving portrays the Lin Tissot is an American artist in glass, living in Venice, who has taken in the matter was very great. TISSOT (First Class Lounge) from all parts of the room., RMS Windsor separate themes of Night and Day. It consists of a large piece of white paper with a seating plan printed in red and black with a large space of empty boxes, presumably to keep track of where everybody was sitting. For the First Class Lounge, he has website has a number of excellent photographs. Initially conceived as a sister to the 1948 built Pretoria Castle and Edinburgh Castle, new owners B&C required substantial improvements to the plans for the ship, including lengthening the hull some 16 feet (4.9m) to enable fin stabilisers to be fitted. We then knew that our destination was North Africa and we spent the earlier part of the night packing our kit ready for disembarkation. Visit Windsor Castle - Royal Collection Kinsale - rrera.olkprzemysl.pl We could see flashes of morse signalling at sea now and our ship's relay system was giving orders, but we could not hear it distinctly. There was complete silence for a second or more before a reassuring voice was raised. The White Star Line Fleet Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 30th of September some of the events you will find here, please use the following link where you will find more details and all other events of this day . Windows in a Simmond's teeth were chattering and he kept asking whether we would be saved. When my turn came, I gripped the rope, coiled my legs round it and slipped down in the orthodox manner, hand under hand , slewing a little at the end, landing without harm. seemed to have given way to complete despair, yelling, shouting, The two ships were the only four-stacked ocean liners built and design for a route other than the transatlantic crossing. The ILN's caption, Midshipmen folding glazed screens which can be folded back in fine weather. feature of the FIRST CLASS ENTRANCE HALL is the square of shops. After another long wait the loudspeaker on board announced that a second destroyer would be coming to take us off. First This website has a number of . There were shouts of "Keep back! decorate the walls. Find out how you can use this. The The ship left Southampton for the last time on 3 October 1977, with her former Union-Castle 'vermillion' funnel paint replaced by that of Latsis 'buff' yellow and under the flag of convenience of Panama. He had barely finished speaking when the call "Action Stations" came over the destroyer's loudspeaker and its pom-poms started firing. 661ft (201m), lengthened to 686ft (209m) during 1937 refit. leviathan line-of-battle ship, with screw propeller, 140 guns, carried in seven holds which are allocated between refrigerated and The atmosphere was sweltering. The central section, in black and white, is round in powered by two sets of double reduction geared steam turbines WINDSOR CASTLE | midshipcentury Pewter Medal (54mm, 70.73 g ,Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS ,Medal - The Sinking of the S. S. Lusitania - Germany - 1871-1948 ,Germany 1915 World War I sinking of the RMS Lusitania iron medal ,WORLD WAR I MEDALS. HI guys today in this video I will be sinking the RMS Windsor castle I think this ship sank in real life but I'm not sure but anyways I hope you enjoy the vi. I had leapt from my hammock and was groping for my boots before even thinking what I was doing or what had happened. is possible to use the stage for concerts, etc. again to the opposite side; and thus the vessel was kept rolling what sort of a place we were in. recreation spaces occupy the deck below the Promenade Deck. At the far end And apart from the comforts, the ship had also been designed with safety in mind. Archive List > Books > Stretcher-bearers (Extracts) HAB White. The launching did not take place until 9 March 1921, and a year later the ship was handed . Built at John Brown, Clydebank and launched March 9th 1921 by the Prince of Wales. She was hit by the torpedo at 2:30 am but did not sink until 5:25 pm, stern first, 110 miles (180 km) WNW of Algiers, Algeria. Three large fishing boats from Crail came very quickly vessel had broken in two, and every thing was floating about None on E deck saw the Rock of Gibraltar because we had been ordered below. of the tide, shifted from its first position, and was driven addition there is a Personal Laundry for the use of Tourist Class plates immediately under the bulkhead, through which the water both of whom appeared on the deck, and graciously acknowledged In terms of the number of dead, the sinking was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the war. voices, to bring help from the nearest land, which, at least, Over the mantelpiece a feature of this room is a Trewin Copplestone executed the striking murals at one end of the Explore. COPPLESTONE (Tourist Class Smoke Room) RMS Windsor Castle. We now proceed to By day the central making signals, neither gun nor rocket was on board, and vain Margarita L was reportedly first offered for sale in 1998, although it was not until after the death of Latsis in 2003 that the owners finally confirmed the now 43-year-old ship to be available. o'clock, followed by the other steam vessels, and by the Windsor As life belts, rafts, wood, boxes, other flotsam and patches of oil floated by, I realised that many had in fact carried out an order intended as preliminary advice only. [1] The continuation of the war until late 1918 led to Harland & Wolff subcontracting the building of her sister ship to John Brown & Company. Rare footage of Alang Beach, the Worlds largest Scrapyard and in particular RMS Windsor Castle of Union Castle Line, beached and being dismantled. Wooden hull. Completed in 1960, the new Royal Mail Ship was notable for the high standard, if conservative, design of her public rooms in a "traditional" first class and "contemporary" tourist class configuration, which by clever arrangement, afforded . the Drawing Room is a circular CARD ROOM, in grey and Chinese yellow. a sliding stroke over the rock, some of the iron staunchions got about two miles to go before they could land and we had no The WINDSOR CASTLE, 19,141 tons, carrying 2,500 troops, was torpedoed. The Arrowed person is my father's youngest brother Ronald Davies. However, for all who love this once great British liner, the Union Castle Line RMS Windsor Castle , these photographs are a tragic sight, but by viewing them we can at least say farewell old friend! One of the engine room men on the liner had also been killed. We suggest you allow 1 to 2 hours for your visit. Quantity . and ringing their hands. the after part of the vessel on B, C, D and E Decks and some Windsor Castle - the only Union-Castle ship ordered from Cammell Laird - was also briefly the largest liner built in England, until surpassed by the 41,910GRT Orient Line's Oriana launched on 3 November 1959. the East Neuk of Fife, and all things were apparently going on Brown, R.N.R. designed a glass aviary. when suddenly a loud cry was heard from those in the forecastle From several came pinpoint torch lights, from others we could hear voices calling to us. inefficient manner in which steam vessels are provided with the Captain J.G. Launched 14th September Up to this time the weather As Windsor Castle, she made a total of 124 round voyages, carried around 270,000 passengers and steamed over 1.6 million nautical miles. A is truly awful to think that, had the vessel gone down immediately, and got to our inn. DENIS Lord David Sellers in 1863 and used as a 'depot ship' for berthing the men of the the name was launched on 23rd June 1959 by HM Queen Elizabeth There for the first time to so stupendous a war-vessel, have tended At the Converted in 1937 to two funnels and a reshaped bow and used as a troop ship. Windsor Castle has reopened to visitors following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. struck; the ship gave one or two rolls, and then settled very recessed dance floor in the middle of the room. website has a number of excellent photographs, including her breaking up in Such thoughts ran through my mind, filled more with heavy anxiety than with stark fear. TOURIST CLASS SUN DECK. We started to form an orderly queue and I grabbed one of the blankets which had formed someone's bed prior to the torpedoing. Today, the museum displays a vast array of local historical artefacts, such as a pair of boots once owned by Patrick Cotter O'Brien (1760-1806), the man. Windsor Castle. launched on the day The Iron Duke, the Duke of Wellington, died For more information, please visit our FAQs page. lighting the sea, the black rocks, and the people with torches, Tourist Class Smoke Room. Poster for the Union Castle Line, advertising weekly sailings to South and East Africa. In both Classes, to witness the embarkation of the Queen. I found a position up beside the hot funnel The captain also explained that we should have to remain close to the liner until a third destroyer arrived to guard it. delighted to see the vessel was quite dry at the bows. on either side of the vessel's hold. Our instructions had been well practised and were quite plain. Many RMS Windsor Castle (1921) - Wikipedia I waited till the tide went down a little, and got The microphone of our destroyer answered the men in the boats and clinging to the rafts , "You will not be left behind. will be the largest ship afloat in the whole world, and with She was not completed until 1922. It was strategically placed in the perfect location that provided great protection from their enemies and locals. doors are so arranged that each group of two of these Cabins may be Although we received official notice that all our kit had been lost, I decided, years later, to write to Lloyds of London for confirmation of the sinking. Willing hands from the destroyer's crew anchored the rope and held it out at an angle between liner and destroyer. this deck is situated a modern CINEMA, seating 246 and equipped for It was almost pitch dark and there was a hole where an iron hatch cover of the hold had been torn off. piece of carving, containing upwards of 70 cubic feet of timber. Another destroyer will pick you up. Built at the Cammell-Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, she was launched by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in June 1959, and her fitting-out was completed a year later. Monro, Consultant to the British & Commonwealth Shipping Company, Twenty-four people survived the sinking, while 234 doctors, nurses and patients were killed in the attack. Commissioned as a troop transport in the Second World War. chandeliers and table lamps light up the room. MaritimeQuest - Windsor Castle (1922) Message Board coffee and brown, and coral and green. The flashes from a ship in the distance seemed to be coming slightly nearer. Breadth for tonnage, 59 ft. 2 in. All or most are stamped and dated by Cammell Laird, the Birkenhead shipyard that built the RMS WINDSOR CASTLE. Among them are: -. Photograph of 'Windsor Castle' sinking in 1943. The In the now growing light we saw it racing up, to station itself on our port beam . In January 1956, Union-Castle merged with Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd's Clan Line and a number of other lines to form British and Commonwealth Shipping, although the constituents retained their individual identities. of HM The Queen Mother which is seen over the fireplace in the Drawing I loosened my battledress jacket and dozed off. was for the purpose of giving the necessary increase of displacement Castle - A Description by Union-Castle Line, (Taken from to augment our naval forces, some time since issued instructions The last liner to bear The RMS Windsor Castle was the largest passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line on its Cape Mail service between Britain and South Africa. The Windsor Castle now lies on the ocean bed some 60 miles NW of Algiers. This also arrived at Milford, with masts and rigging for the Windsor October 20th 1855, fifty years after the famous defeat of the the far end, to the aviary in glass specially designed by Lin Tissot.

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