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Union Castle Line Galway Castle Photograph
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Product Code:MT0011
Product Condition:Used
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A true but rather fragile antique relating to the streamer Galway Castle. Designated as an intermediate mailship, she was built by Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast in 1911. Weighing 7988 tonnes, 452ft 4in long with a beam of 54ft 4in she could reach 13 knots. With the commencment of war in 1914 she undertook troopship duties to Africa before returning to her normal work. But sadly, on the 12th September 1918, while carrying 400 wounded South African soldiers, 346 passengers and 204 crew from Portsmouth to South Africa she was torpedoed by U-82. Sadly 143 people perished before she finally slipped beneath the waves of the Channel three days later. It is believed that this monochrome photograph dates between 1911 and 1915 as the Galway is not wearing dazzle camoflage. The remarkably high definition photograph is mounted on buff coloured cardboard. There is some evidence that it may have been housed in a frame at one stage. Due to it's advanced age the cardboard is now very fragile and, as can be seen in the attached photographs, it has now split into four irregular shaped pieces. Luckily the actual photograph is unaffected as is the guilded wording. On the reverse a message has been written in contemporary handwriting... "To Katherine with fondest love from Harry". Unfortunately the message has been traversed by a split in the cardboard. Reading this message it makes you wonder what happened to Harry, was he onboard on that fateful day? There is also some other writting which is very feint and hardly observable.
Date: c.1911-1915
Maker: Unknown
Dimensions (Mount): 51cm x 38cm x 0.1cm
Date: c.1911-1915
Maker: Unknown
Dimensions (Mount): 51cm x 38cm x 0.1cm
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