Llandovery Castle (1914)
HMHS Llandovery Castle

Builder:
Barclay, Curle & Company Ltd.
Glasgow, Scotland
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1914
Launched:
September 3, 1913
Type:
Passenger/Cargo
Completed:
January 1914
Fate:
Sunk June 27, 1918 by SMS U-86 (Oberleutnant zur See Helmut Patzig)

Location: North Atlantic, 114 miles Southwest of Fastnet Rock, Ireland.
(50.47N - 12.03W)

234 killed, 24 survivors picked up by HMS Lysander on June 29.
(Roll of Honour)


Owner
Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd.
London, England


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
500' (PP)
Engines:
2 quadruple steam expansion
Beam:
63' 3"
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
N/A
Shafts:
2
Gross Tons:
10,639
HP:
1,135
Displacement:
N/A
Speed:
14.5 knots
Crew:
N/A
Funnels:
1
Passengers:
N/A
Masts:
2


Captains
From
To
Name
June 27, 1918
R. A. Sylvester


History
July 26, 1916:
Commissioned as hospital ship.
Notes
Last Union-Castle ship lost in World War I.


Builder's Data
Page published June 28, 2008