SS32 - 011 - Postcard - Union Castle Line - RMS Kinfauns Castle - Southampton
This is a postcard depicting the RMS Kinfauns Castle leaving Empress Dock in Southampton. The ship was a Royal Mail Ship of the Union-Castle Line, which operated a route between Southampton, England and Cape Town, South Africa.
The Kinfauns Castle was built in 1899 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow.
It was the sister ship to the RMS Kildonan Castle.
The ship had a gross tonnage of 9,652 and a service speed of 17 knots.
The Kinfauns Castle was requisitioned for troop transport during the Boer War and later served as a hospital ship during World War I.