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1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
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RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
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#oceanliner #maritimehistory #unioncastleline #windsorcastle #royalmailsteamer #vintagetravel #historicships #goldenageofsteam #nauticalheritage #shippostcard #maritimeart #classicliners #seatravelhistory #fourfunnelship #oceanvoyage #shipsofmastodon

1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
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RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
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#oceanliner #maritimehistory #unioncastleline #windsorcastle #royalmailsteamer #vintagetravel #historicships #goldenageofsteam #nauticalheritage #shippostcard #maritimeart #classicliners #seatravelhistory #fourfunnelship #oceanvoyage #shipsofmastodon

1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
.
RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
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#oceanliner #maritimehistory #unioncastleline #windsorcastle #royalmailsteamer #vintagetravel #historicships #goldenageofsteam #nauticalheritage #shippostcard #maritimeart #classicliners #seatravelhistory #fourfunnelship #oceanvoyage #shipsofmastodon

1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
.
RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
.
#oceanliner #maritimehistory #unioncastleline #windsorcastle #royalmailsteamer #vintagetravel #historicships #goldenageofsteam #nauticalheritage #shippostcard #maritimeart #classicliners #seatravelhistory #fourfunnelship #oceanvoyage #shipsofmastodon

1927 RMS Windsor Castle Postcard
.
RMS Windsor Castle (launched 1921) served the Union-Castle Line on mail and passenger routes to South and East Africa. Requisitioned in WWII as a troopship, she was sunk by German aircraft near Algeria in 1943.
.
#oceanliner #maritimehistory #unioncastleline #windsorcastle #royalmailsteamer #vintagetravel #historicships #goldenageofsteam #nauticalheritage #shippostcard #maritimeart #classicliners #seatravelhistory #fourfunnelship #oceanvoyage #shipsofmastodon

The USS Constitution sits docked in Boston Harbor, its masts rising against moody clouds.

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I come from a long line of #SeaCaptains. My great grandfather was Captain Grant & this is one of the American #ClipperShips he sailed, the Saint David. It was built in 1877 in Bath, Maine & carried cargoes of lumber & coal in the Pacific trade.

Once when he was sailing from Australia with a load of coal there was a storm which almost drove the ship into the rocks, story below.

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Tonight’s supper reading, Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance”. I was lucky to get a signed copy from my local bookshop. I rarely read print now due to neuro disease, but this one’s layout and structure is me friendly.
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