HMHS Dover Castle
The Dover Castle before her wartime service | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Dover Castle |
| Namesake | Dover Castle |
| Owner | Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company |
| 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 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 8,271 GRT |
| 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.