The Worcestershire Castle steaming away from Queenstown.
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History | |
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UK | |
Name | HMHS Worcestershire Castle |
Owner | White Star Line |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Laid down | 1915 |
Launched | 1916 |
Christened | Not christened |
Completed | 1917 |
Out of service | 1937 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1937 |
Status | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Dorsetshire class hospital-ship |
Displacement | 806 tons |
Length | 114 ft 7 in (34.93 m) |
Beam | 38 ft (12 m) |
Propulsion | 2 bronze triple blade outboard wing propellers. |
Speed | |
Capacity | list error: <br /> list (help) 336 as hospital ship 274 wounded, 221 medical staff as hospital ship |
Crew | 38 |
The HMHS Worcestershire Castle was a British hospital ship during WWI she served 2 years of service 1917-1918. After her years of service she was kept as a hospital at port in 1930 when she began her first civilian service for the first time she successes. In 1937 she was scrapped her builders no longer wanted to keep her. During her scrapping a ship accidentally rammed the side of her hull which knocked the ship over on the dock. The ship was later pulled off and continued scrapping.