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Similar Thurland Castle and Penrith Castle. Call sign GTBD. Homeport Liverpool, England. Launched by Cammell Laird&Co.Ld., Birkenhead, England with yard number 947 on 9 May 1929, completed for Lancashire Shipping Co. Ld., manager J. Chambers&Co in July 1929, stranded on South Stone, Seven Stone Rocks in the Scillies underway from Matadi, Congo-Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of the Congo via Amsterdam, Netherlands to Liverpool on 6 October 1949 and lost. Gross tonnage 6,369 ton, under deck 5,738 ton, net tonnage 3,807 ton and as dimensions 464.4 x 60.3 x 25.8 feet. Oil-fuelled.
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