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The ship as The Victoria in 1985
History
Name
Dunnottar Castle (1936–58)
Victoria (1958–75)
The Victoria (1976–93)
Princesa Victoria (1993–2004)
Namesake
Dunnottar Castle (1946–58)
Owner
Union-Castle Mail SS Co Ltd (1936–58)
Operator
Union-Castle Line (1936–39, 1942–58)
Royal Navy (1939–42)
Incres SS Co (1958–64)
Clipper Line (1964–75)
Chandris Lines (1975–93)
Louis Cruise Lines (1993–2004)
Port of registry
London (1936–58)
Route
Tilbury – South Africa (1936–39, 1948–58)
Builder
Harland and Wolff
Yard number
959
Laid down
1935
Launched
25 January 1936
Completed
27 June 1936
Maiden voyage
July 1936
Out of service
2004
Identification
UK official number 164637 (from 1936)
Call sign GYVM (from 1936)
IMO number: 5379717 (from 1969)
Fate
Scrapped at Kumar Steel Breakers Yard in India, 2004
General characteristics
Tonnage
as built:
15,007 GRT
tonnage under deck 11,585
9,181 NRT
Length
540.0 ft (164.6 m)
Beam
71.9 ft (21.9 m)
Draught
28 ft 2 in (8.59 m)
Depth
37.8 ft (11.5 m)
Decks
3
Installed power
1,931 NHP
Propulsion
twin screw, built with Burmeister & Wain 2-stroke diesel engines, replaced in 1959 with Fiat diesel engines
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h) as built, later 18 knots (33 km/h)
Capacity
285 first class, 250 tourist class as built, 696 single-class at the time of scrapping
Crew
250 as built
Sensors and processing systems
direction finding equipment;
echo sounding equipment;
submarine signalling equipment
Armament
as AMC:
BL 6 inch Mk XII naval guns
QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns
Notes
sister ship: Dunvegan Castle
MS Dunnottar Castle was a British-built passenger ship with a career of more than six decades that included periods as an ocean liner, an armed merchant cruiser (AMC), a troop ship and several decades as a cruise ship. As a cruise ship she was renamed Victoria, then The Victoria and finally Princesa Victoria.
Harland and Wolff built Dunnottar Castle and her sister ship Dunvegan Castle in Belfast in 1936. Union-Castle Line operated Dunnottar Castle on scheduled services between Tilbury and South Africa until 1939, when the Admiralty requisitioned her and commissioned her as HMS Dunnottar Castle. From 1949 to 1958 she served again on Union-Castle's liner route between Britain and South Africa.
The ship's long career in cruising began in 1958 in the ownership of the Incres Steamship Company, who had her extensively remodelled and renamed her Victoria. Clipper Line bought her in 1964 and sold her in 1975 to Chandris Lines, who modified her name to The Victoria. In 1993 Louis Cruise Lines bought her and renamed her Princesa Victoria.
The ship was laid up from 2002 and scrapped in India in 2004.
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