IN 1853 the Union Steam Collier Company was formed to bring coal from Newcastle for the liners operating out of Southampton. A fleet of five ships was ordered but events were to alter these plans ...

Union Castle line ships sailed from berths 101 and 102 from the 1930’s onwards. Previously they berthed at 38/9 berth. Containerisation and the growth of air travel was to eventually catch up ...

The following morning we arrived at a port which I subsequently discovered was Liverpool and we boarded a ship which turned out to be the MV Durban Castle, a Union Castle line ship which had been ...

Mention in this column (April 4) of a Union-Castle reunion brought me in touch with a Mr Einon Edwards Rees, holidaying here with his wife from their home in Essex. Mr Rees joined his first ship ...