RMS Dunottar Castle

Dunottar Castle at Dartmouth, Devon
History
United Kingdom
Name	Dunottar Castle
Owner	Union-Castle Line
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Yard number	348
Laid down	1889
Launched	22 May 1890
In service	1890
Fate	Sunk 35 mi (56 km) off Cape Wrath 27 September 1915[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage	5,625 GRT
Length	433 ft (132 m)
Beam	49 ft 8 in (15.14 m)
Draught	25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion	Single screw
Speed	17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) service speed

RMS Dunottar Castle was a Royal Mail Ship that went into service with the Castle Line (and its successor, the Union-Castle Line) in 1890 on the passenger and mail service between Britain and South Africa. In 1913 the ship was sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company as the Caribbean. After the outbreak of the First World War she served as HMS Caribbean, first as a troop ship and then as an armed merchant cruiser, until she sank in a storm off the Scottish coast on 27 September 1915.