Union-Castle Line Series

Archive

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Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

Union-Castle Line Series

Entry/Object ID

K0001.150

Scope and Content

This series consists of fifteen folders: The Union-Castle Line was founded in 1900 with the merger between Britain's Union Line and the Castle Shipping Line. The line offered passenger transport. services between England and South Africa. Several vessels of the fleet were employed as armed troopships or hospital ships during World Wars I and II The line operated until the 1970s when the financial strain of competition and high oil prices caused the passenger operations of line to cease, and eventually, the line's container operations ceased as well.

Collection

Kingsbury Maritime Ephemera Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Folder, File

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Container, Document

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Accessories

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Jun 8, 2011