Either Durban or Warwick Castle leaving Mombasa

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15 Jun 2025

Crew Lists & Sailings

Castle Line

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Arundel Castle   1895 - Aug   and   1896 - Mar

Tantallon Castle   1898 - Apr   and   1899 - Jan

13 Jun 2025

Union-Castle

Purser’s Dept

New entries

Mike Irwin   Margaret Parry   Bill McCall   and   Howard Hunt

12 Jun 2025

Clan Line

Union-Castle

Engineering Dept

Purser’s Dept

New entry

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Michael Charlton

Alan Charlesworth

11 Jun 2025

Crew Lists & Sailings

All companies

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Radio Officer Tom Martell kept records of the ships “spoken” by radio in his time with the company.  I have now uploaded his info for   1974

10 Jun 2025

British & Commonwealth

Deck Dept

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Tony Berkeley   and   Martin Wise

9 Jun 2025

British & Commonwealth

Deck Dept

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David Tracy,   Patrick Philpott,   Jock Mitchell   and   Graham Haig-Brown

8 Jun 2025

British & Commonwealth

Deck Dept

New entry

Michael Barnett

5 Jun 2025

Union-Castle

Clan Line

Crew Lists & Schedules

Deck Dept

New entries

Update

Cruise schedules for Braemar Castle   1961 - Oct   and   1961 - Nov

Obituary for   John Nutt

3 Jun 2025

Union-Castle

Masters

Update

An account of the career of   Capt Patrick Beadon

Section Selector

The British & Commonwealth Shipping Company Register Bullard King Home Page which includes: Samuel Bullard, Rawling & King, White Cross Line & Natal Direct Line

Clan Line Steamers

1877 - 1981

Clan Line Home Page which includes: C W Cayzer & Co, Clan Line Steamship Co, The Mexican States Line & Thompson Steam Shipping Co

Houston

Line

1875 - 1970

Houston Line Home Page which includes: R P Houston & Co, British & South American Steam Navigation Co, Houston Line & Thesen Steamships

Hector Whaling

1928 - 1974

Hector Whaling Home Page

B & C

Cayzer Irvine

 1956 - 1988

B & C -  Cayzer Irvine

Donald

Currie & Co

1862 - 1900

Donald Currie & Co Home Page which includes: Currie's Calcutta Castles, The Castle Line, The Leith Hull and Hamburg Service, Cape-Natal Coastal Service & The African Boating Co

Overseas

Containers

1965 - 1984

OCL Home Page

Scottish Shire Line

1874 - 1975

Scottish Shire Line Home Page which includes: Turnbull Martin & Co, Elderslie Shipping Co & Scottish Shire Line

Scottish Tankers

1950 - 1985

Scottish Tankers Home Page

Union-Castle Line

1900 - 1979

Union-Castle Home Page

Union

SS Co

1853 - 1900

Union Line Home Page

Springbok

Line

1960 - 1961

S American

Saint Line

1926 - 1965

Saint Line Home Page which includes: Hatherleigh Shipping Co, Barry Shipping Co, St Quentin Shipping Co, Triton Shipping So, Shakespear Shipping Co & South American Saint Line

Special Projects

1963 - 1975

Special Projects Home Page which includes: Seapool, MOIRA & FSB

National

Service

1853 - 1986

National Service Home Page a register of vessels requisitioned for service in: The Crimean War, The Zanzibar Slave Trade, The Zulu War, The South African Wars, The Mahdist War, The Russian Crisis, World War 1, The Russian Civil War, World War 2 & The Falklands Conflict Royal Navy Service Home Page which includes vessels requisitioned for Naval service from: Clan Line, Union-Castle & Union Line

Royal Navy

Service

1885 - 1949

Bowater Steamships

1936 - 1972

Bullard King

& Co

1823 - 1960

Bullard King Home Page which includes: Samuel Bullard, Rawling & King, White Cross Line and Natal Direct

Safmarine

Corporation

1965 - 1977

Safmarine Home Page which includes: The Safmarine Mail Ships, Safmarine Cruises & Safmarine cargo ships owned by B & C

King

Line

1889 - 1978

Crew Lists

Sailing Schedules

The

Cayzer

Family

Details of training schools and cadet ships

Officer and Cadet

Training

Links to various sites and pages on Facebook and Youtube that include relevant content

Social

Media

Sites

War and Peacetime

Memorials

Join

The

Register

How to apply to have your service details included on the register

Sea

Staff

Reunions

Brief biographies of members of the Cayzer family that have been involved in the shipping company Crew Lists dating from 1857 until 1985 Memorial Home Page which includes all those who have given their lives in service of the Companies or Nation Reunions Home Page which includes details of past and future events Springbok Line Home Page Bowater Home Page which includes: Bowater Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills, The Markland Shipping Co & The Bowater Steamship Co