Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited - Various vessels

A blue ring binder type album, with 'UNION CASTLE LINE - FLEET EXTERIORS, SOUTH & EAST AFRICA.' stamped in gold on the front cover. There are 29 pages and 30 photographs (including 2 loose photographs), mounted one to a page. There are manuscript captions under each photograph, and there is a typescript list of captions inside the front cover.
The album includes the interiors of the following vessels: Carnarvon Castle (1926), Capetown Castle (1938), Pretoria Castle (1948), Edinburgh Castle (1948), Blomfontein Castle (1950), Winchester Castle (1930), Durban Castle (1938).
Also included are the following locations: Table Bay, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth.

Object Details

ID: ALB0642
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 425 mm x 317 mm
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