HMHS Glenart Castle

HMHS Glenart Castle was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line. She was renamed Glenart Castle in 1914, but was requisitioned for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 26 February 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo fired from the German U-boat UC-56.

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SS Galician; SS Glenart Castle
speed 12.5 knot, length 134.2 metre, beam 15.91 metre, draft 9.1 metre,
shipwreck, hospital ship, ocean liner, Harland and Wolff, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

Location: 51.1167, -5.05, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1900-06-07T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1900-09-20T00:00:00Z

ship launching

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Frameless

World War I; the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Wellcome L0050314

HS Glenart Castle torpedoed and sunk 26.02.1918

The U-boat menace (25598931836)

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

site	artillery battery		Battery on North East Point, Lundy	artillery battery	Wikidata
site	artillery battery		Gun battery at Brazen Ward, Lundy	artillery battery	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		HMHS Glenart Castle	ocean liner, shipwreck, hospital ship	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		HMHS Rewa	steamship, shipwreck	Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1903	HMS Montagu	shipwreck, pre-dreadnought battleship, Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship	Wikidata
commons	image		World War I; the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Wellcome L0050314		Commons
commons	image		HS Glenart Castle torpedoed and sunk 26.02.1918		Commons
commons	image		HS Glenart Castle torpedoed and sunk 26.02.1918		Commons
commons	image		The U-boat menace (25598931836)		Commons

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HMHS Glenart Castle

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