The newly built SS Carisbrook Castle showing the stern and dock behind

Date:
Jun 1898
Reference:
BL14862
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The steam ship SS Carisbrook Castle was built in 1898 (the year of this photograph) by Donald Currie & Company and sailed as a passenger and private mail service between Southampton and South Africa. She was scrapped in 1922 after serving as a hospital ship during the First World War. The Bedford Lemere daybook records Wyllie and Lockhead as decorators and mention Broadwoods pianos in the 'notes' field.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Victorian Watercraft, Water Transport