![]() The Dover Castle before her wartime service
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History | |
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Name | Dover Castle |
Namesake | Dover Castle |
Owner | ![]() |
Builder | Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow |
Yard number | 443 |
Launched | 4 February 1904 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat UC-67, 26 May 1917[1] |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8,271 GRT[2] |
Length | 476.4 ft (145.2 m) |
Beam | 56.7 ft (17.3 m) |
Draught | 31.9 ft (9.7 m) |
Propulsion | Steam, quadruple expansion engines, 969 nhp |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
HMHS Dover Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steam ship originally built for the Union-Castle Line and launched in 1904. In 1914 she was requisitioned for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 26 May 1917 she was torpedoed 50 nautical miles North of Bône, Algeria by UC-67 of the Imperial German Navy.