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"RMS Windsor Castle"

(Page set up connected with The RMS Windsor Castle Trust begun 2003 - an attempt to save the ship that eventually failed, and she was scrapped in Alang, India, Summer 2005)

(Note: Website echoed banner and ad free: http://members.shaw.ca/GascoyneR/WindsorCastle.htm)

'Life at Sea with Union-Castle' - text account by Rodney Gascoyne

Union-Castle fleet and my voyages 64/67 - plus photo of Stirling Castle's last call at Cape Town

'Life At Sea with Union-Castle' - photographs  

'RMS Windsor Castle' - photographs  

Engineering Report on the cause of the CapeTown Castle accident in Las Palmas, 1960

RMS Windsor Castle log of the day CapeTown Castle exploded 

Björn Larsson's excellent site with many brochures and images from the Union-Castle Line

RodneyGascoyne@Hotmail.Com  (full memoir) 

1864 Diary of Thomas Alcock, my great-great-great uncle, recording a voyage under sail from Sydney NSW to London, around Cape Horn, aboard "La Hogue", lasting 90 days non-stop, plus details and images of the square-rigged ship 

Cruises Database

Account of the Tall Ships' Race 1978 aboard 3-masted Topsail Schooner "Sir Winston Churchill"

© 2003 Rodney Gascoyne