page_title: SS Armadale Castle
hierarchical_section_title: SS Armadale Castle
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard entitled R. M. S. "Armadale Castle" 12973 Tons, also marked "Published by Sallo Epstein &amp; Co., Durban", used in the post with a King Edward VII penny stamp of Natal and postmarked "DE 20 04" (for 20 December 1904)
context_page_description: SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London, the first ship ordered for the newly formed company.
  Armadale Castle was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy 2 August 1914. She was returned to commercial service in 1919. She was laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd.
context_section_description: SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London, the first ship ordered for the newly formed company.
  Armadale Castle was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy 2 August 1914.  She was returned to commercial service in 1919.  She was laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd.
caption: RMS Armadale Castle around 1904
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