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Pennant Number:

F61

 

Battle Honours:

Atlantic 1943-45

 

Specifications: 

Builder:

Harland & Wolff

Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

Converted by:

Swan Hunter

Displacement:

23,450 tons

length (Overall):

 594ft 7in

Beam:

 76ft 6 in

Speed:

 18 knots

Crew Complement:

580

A/C Capacity:

21

Commanding Officers:

Capt. A.V. Hemming RN

Mar 41 – Mar 43

 

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Capt. R.B. Davies

RN

Mar 43 – Jun 44

 

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Capt. G.C. Dickins

RN

May 45 – DEC 45

 

Squadrons:

778

Service Trials Unit

 

A History of HMS Pretoria Castle

 

 

Built by Harland & Wolff. Belfast, Northern Ireland; Launched 12 Oct 1938, completed 1939 as a passenger liner. Requisitioned as armed merchant cruiser 10/1939, commissioned 28 November 1939. Purchased by RN 16 July 1942 and converted to a carrier at Swan Hunter. Commissioned 29 July 1943, conversion completed 9 August 1943.

 

Used only as a trials and training carrier. She was paid off December 1945, sold 26 January 1946  for merchant service but not immediately decommissioned; delivered to new owners 21 March 1946 for conversion to cargo liner. Entered service as  'Warwick Castle' 1947. Scrapped in Spain starting 9/1962.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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