Then and now : a short history of the Union-Castle line.

A brief history of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd which held the mail contract between South Africa and England from 1857. Resulting from an amalgamation in 1900 between the Union Steam Ship Company, founded in 1853, and the Castle Packets Company, founded in 1872, Union-Castle went on to carry a wide range of cargoes as well as passengers between the two countries.