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LAUNCHING AT BELFAST SERVICE TO SOUTH AFRICA British Wireless BTTGBY, Oct. 13 The Pretoria Castle, a 17,200-ton passenger and cargo vessel built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast for the Union Castlo Company's South African service, was launched to-day by Mrs. C. T. te Water, wife of the High Commissioner for South Africa.
The reconstruction of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company's fleet, rendered necessary by the acceleration of its weekly mail service between Southampton and Capetown, began M'ith the building of two motor-liners, Stirling Castlo and Athlone Castle, to which was subsequently added the Capetown Castle, of 27,000 tons gross. Three ships, the Carnarvon Castle, Warwick Castlo and Winchester Castle, have been re-engined. The Pretoria Castle is one of two intermediate passenger ships under order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23169, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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