3-086-497 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new Castle Line mail steam-ship "Carisbrook Castle", 1898. 'The new Castle liner Carisbrook Castle left London on Thursday, June 9, on her first voyage to the Cape. She is a single screw steel steamer, 500 ft. in over-all length, and 56 ft. beam, with a moulded depth of 35 ft. 6 in. She has been constructed by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company on the Clyde, and on her trials attained a speed of 17½ knots. Her gross register is 7626 tons. Accommodation is provided for 250 first-class passengers amidships, 150 second-class in the poop and on the main deck, and 220 third-class forward. The indicated horse-power of the main engines is about 8500. The Carisbrook Castle has been built to the highest requirements of the Board of Trade, under Lloyd's rules. She is fitted with a cellular double bottom the whole length of the ship, and is subdivided by bulkheads into numerous water-tight compartments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.