Capetown_Castle-02

RMMV Capetown Castle was a British passenger liner built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to South Africa.
The ship was launched on 23 September 1937 and was a slightly enlarged version of the Stirling Castle and Athlone Castle of 1936. After the outbreak of World War II, in January 1940, the government introduced the Liner Requisition Scheme and Capetown Castle was taken up for conversion into a troop ship. In 1943 she took part in Operation Bolero, the build-up of troops in preparation for D-Day, and was eventually returned to her owners in 1946, having sailed 484,000 miles and carried over 164,000 troops. The ship was refurbished at Belfast and returned to commercial service on 9 January 1947.
Name: RMMV Capetown Castle
Owner: Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Company
Port of registry: London, UK
Route: Southampton-Las Palmas-Cape Town-Port Elizabeth-East London-Durban
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast[1]
Yard number: 986[2]
Launched: 23 September 1937[1]
Completed: 31 March 1938[2]
Maiden voyage: 29 April 1938
Out of service: 9 September 1967
Fate: Scrapped, 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMMV_Capetown_Castle