Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited - Various vessels

A blue leather ring binder type album with 'UNION-CASTLE FLEET EXTERIORS' stamped in gold on the front cover. There are 23 pages and 16 photographs mounted one to a page. There is a paper sticker on the front cover which bears the number 1003.
All the photographs are by Beken & Sons except Durban Castle (1938) which is by Stewart Bale.
The album includes the following vessels:
Edinburgh Castle (1948)
Pretoria Castle (1948)
Capetown Castle (1938)
Athlong Castle (1936)
Stirling Castle (1936)
Carnarvon Castle (1926)
Winchester Castle (1936)
Warwick Castle (ex Pretoria Castle) (1939)
Durban Castle (1938)

Object Details

ID: ALB0629
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 419 mm x 311 mm
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