. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . te service vessels leave London and, aftercalling at Southampton, proceed to Cape Colony,Natal and Delagoa Bay; alternate vessels go viot,Las Palmas (Grand Canary) and Teneriffe and callonce a month at Ascension, St. Helena, Beira andMauritius. During the war with South Africa theUnion-Castle vessels rendered great service inconveying men and stores to the seat of war ; andthe pacification and complete union of the SouthAfrican States must lead to no inconsiderableincrease in the business of one of our most famouscompanies. Two well-known vessels
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . te service vessels leave London and, aftercalling at Southampton, proceed to Cape Colony,Natal and Delagoa Bay; alternate vessels go viot,Las Palmas (Grand Canary) and Teneriffe and callonce a month at Ascension, St. Helena, Beira andMauritius. During the war with South Africa theUnion-Castle vessels rendered great service inconveying men and stores to the seat of war ; andthe pacification and complete union of the SouthAfrican States must lead to no inconsiderableincrease in the business of one of our most famouscompanies. Two well-known vessels are the ArmadaleCastle and the Kenilworth Castle, sister shipsof the same dimensions, and practically similar inall other respects ; 570 feet long and 65 feet beam;registered tonnage, 12,975. Constructed of steelthroughout, they have the usual watertight com-partments with a double collision bulkhead fittedforward. They each accommodate 320 first-class,225 second-class, and 280 third-class is no need to describe in detail the.
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