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.

The talk will focus on the story of Lord Nelson's favourite ship, the HMS Agamemnon, which was built and launched in 1781. After a 28-year naval service record, including the Battle of Trafalgar ...

Merdon Castle near Winchester, Hampshire, had become overgrown Credit: Historic England/PA. Elspeth Faulkner, Historic England architect, said: “Merdon Castle has spent many years on the ...

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 ...

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 ...