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Description: | 1939 1945
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE WAR SERVICES OF THIS GOOD SHIP AND THE DEVOTION TO DUTY OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN HER 1939. OCTOBER. RESCUED 19 SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED S.S. "CLAN CHISHOLM" FROM NORTH ATLANTIC. 1940. 5TH FEBRUARY. REQUISITIONED BY H.M. GOVERNMENT FOR WAR SERVICE AS A TRANSPORT, AND REMAINED CONTINUOUSLY IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE WAR. OCTOBER. ATTACKED AND BOMBED BY ENEMY AIRCRAFT OFF NORTHERN IRELAND, BUT WITH ONLY MINOR CASUALITIES. 1942. AUGUST. RESCUED 22 OF CREW OF TORPEDOED S.S. MALDANADO IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OR BERMUDA. 1943/1946. CONTINUED UNDER REQUISITION TO H.M. GOVERNMENT AND DURING THAT PERIOD MADE TROOPING VOYAGES TO AFRICAN, INDIAN, AMERICAN AND ITALIAN PORTS. 1947. 9TH JANUARY. RETURNED TO PEACETIME DUTIES AFTER 484, 000 MILES ON WAR TIME SERVICE DURING WHICH 164,000 TROOPS AND GOVERNMENT PASSENGERS WERE CARRIED.
UNION-CASTLE LINE
Honour's board
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