| Imagen |
Nombre |
Año |
Compañía |
Comentarios |
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Ebani |
1915 |
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The South SAfrican
Hospital Ship Ebani. Employed during the campaign against German
South-West Africa 1914-1915 |
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Edinburgh Castle (I) |
1873 |
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Sister to the record
breaking Windosr Castle (I) |
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Edinburgh Castle (II) |
1910 |
Union-Castle |
The last Cape vessel
built to the order of Donald Currie & Co. Sister to the Balmoral
Castle (II) |
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Eduard Bohlen |
1909 |
Woermann Line |
Coaster, wrecked on the
coast of South-West Africa, 1909 |
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Elizabeth martin |
1872 |
Donald Currie |
A one time mail steamer,
she was transferred to the South African coast in 1877. |
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RMS
England |
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Pioneer of the second
mail steamship line to the Cape: W:S: LIndsay´s RMS England |
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Enterprise |
1825 |
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The first steamship seen
in south african waters. |
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Euripides |
1914 |
Aberdeen |
|
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European |
1872 |
Union Line |
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Field
Marshall |
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Union-Castle |
Formerly DOAL
Feldmarshall. A prize steamer managed by the Union- Castle line on
behalf of HM Shpping Controller, 1919. |
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Florence |
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Donald Currie |
Employed on the south
african coast from 1873 to 1889, originally owned by the Leith Hull
and Hamburg line. |
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Fort
Salisbury |
1895 |
Bucknall line |
sister to Johannesburg
and Buluwayo. |
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Frieda Woerman |
1914 |
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Last of the "German West"
coasters, leaving capetown dcks, 1914. |
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Galeka |
1900 |
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Intermediate steamer,
sunk by mine off Cape la Hogue, 1916. |
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Galician |
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Union- Castle |
Intermediate
steamer, which had an exciting encounter with the german raider
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse during the early days of the war. |
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Galway Castle |
1917 |
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Galway Castle ashore at
East London, 1917. She is painted wartime grey. Casings at etreme
end of ppop concealantisubmarine gun. |
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Galway Castle |
1918 |
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Her back broken, sinking
after being torpedoed, 1918. |
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Galway Castle |
1911 |
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Intermediate steamer,
sister to Guildford Castle and Gloucester Castle. Imrpved Grantully
Castle type. |
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Ganbia |
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Wreck of the Cape and
Natal liner, at Elizabeth, 1871. |
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Garonne |
1878 |
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3.800 tons. First of the
regular Orient Liners to touch at Table Bay |
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Garth
Castle (I) |
1881 |
Castle line |
sister to the ill-fated
Drummond Castle |
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Gascon |
1897 |
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Intermediate steamer.
Sister to Gaika and Goorkha |
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Gaul |
1893 |
Union Line |
First intermediate built
for the Union Line |
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Geelong |
1904 |
Lund´s Blue Anchor Line |
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German I |
1877 |
Union Line |
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German II |
1899 |
Union Line |
Intermediate steamer,
Fourth and last type. fterwards re-named Glengorm Castle, sister to
Galeka and Galician |
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Gertrud Woerman |
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DOAL |
The fourth Gertrud
Woermann, emplyed in the "Round Sfrica" service of the DOAL from
1907-1914 |
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Gertrud Woerman II |
1904 |
DOAL |
Off to the Herreo war in
German South-West Africa. Gertrud Woermann (II) leaving Hamburg with
troops to quell the raising in 1904. This ship herself was wrecked
on thew coast near Swakopmund in 1904 |
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Gertrud Woerman I |
1903 |
DOAL |
The first Gertrud
Woermann, wrecked off the coast of South-West Africa, 1903. |
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Glenart Castle |
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H.M. Hospital Ship,
formerly Galician, torpedoed and sunk 1918. |
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Gloucester castle |
1917 |
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H.M. Hospital Ship,
after being torpedoed, 1917. |
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Gloucester Castle |
1917 |
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H.M. Hospital Ship,
after being torpedoed, 1917. |
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Golden Fleece |
1852 |
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Goorka |
1897 |
Union Line |
Intermediate steamer,
third type, sister to Gascon and Gaika. |
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Goth |
1893 |
|
The first steamers
specially designed for the intermediate service of the Union Line
were the sisters Gaul, Greek and Goth. |
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Gothic |
1893 |
Shaw Savill & Albion (White Star) |
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Gothland |
1872 |
Donald Currie |
The second steamer sent
to the Caoe by Donald Currie. |
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Grantully Castle I |
1887 |
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Leaving Dartmouth |
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Grantully Castle (II) |
1910 |
Union- Castle |
Intermediate steamer,
sister to Garth Castle (II) |
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H.M. Hospital ship
Grantully Castle |
1915 |
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Off Salonika, 1915 |
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Great
Britain |
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In her day the world´s
wonder-ship, 3.200 tons. In Table Bay, 1852 |
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Great
Eastern |
1869 |
|
The famous steamship of
the 19th century, from a photograph taken in Table Bay in December
1869. |
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Greek |
1893 |
Union Line |
Intermediate steamer,
fisrt type. Sister to Gaul and Goth |
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Guildford Castl |
1914-18 |
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Intermediate steamer, as
a hospital ship. She was sunk in collision near Hamburg i 1933 |
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Guleph |
1894 |
Union Line |
Intermediate steamer,
second type. A class by herself. |
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Gunnaren |
1930 |
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Swedish cargo-passenger
motorship, 3.300 tons. |
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Herlech Castle |
1894 |
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Intermediate steamer |
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Hawarden Castle |
1883 |
Castle line |
Sister to Roslin Castle
and Norham Castle |
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Helius |
1904 |
Union Castle |
Taken over from the
Houston Line in 1904 |
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Hermes |
1901 |
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Wreck of the Houston Liner HERMES,
Blaauwberg beach, Table Bay 1901 |
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Herzog |
1896 |
D.O.A.L. |
|
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H.M. Transport
Himalayan |
1850 |
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Another "Leviathan" that
visited the Cape in the ´fifties. |
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Hindostan |
1842 |
P&O |
A notable visitor
to the Cape in the early days of steam. Eastrn pioneer of the P&O,
1842. |
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HMSGoodHope |
1914 |
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Sunk by von Spee at the
Battle of Coronel, Nov. 1, 1914. This cruiser was laid down as the
AFRICA, but her name was changed to Goiod Hope as a compliment to
the people of the Cape. |
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HMSOrbita |
1915 |
Pacific Line |
In Simon´s Bay, 1914.
One of the many armed merchant cruisers that visited the Cape during
the Great War. |
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HMS
Ships |
1914 |
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Ready to attack von Spee, british
warships in Simon´s Bay.November 29, 1914
HMS Albion, Minotaur, Weymouth, Hyacinth, Dartmouth, Astraea and
Armadale Cstle |
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Hope |
1840 |
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South Africa´s first
coasting steamer, the HOPE, wrecked near Cape St. Francis, March
1840. |
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Houtman |
1931 |
K.P.M. |
Which inaugurated the
services between Batavia and the Cape |
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