IN ADDITION to peacetime voyaging on the South Africa service, the Union-Castle liner, Winchester Castle served during the Second World War as an assault training ship and troopship, and for a ...

He remained with Union-Castle until 1952 as an able-seaman in the mail ships Winchester Castle and Stirling Castle along with his brother Evan whose story I hope to tell another time. .

I joined the "Winchester Castle" commando ship. We went on a trainig course up to Holywell in the Scottish Highlands. One day we passed Holywell and were told late evening we were going to Algiers ...

Earlier Winchester Castle had spent a year in Scottish waters as a training ship for assault troops. Many thousands of men stormed ashore from this ship during this period.