SS Castilian (1890)
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SS Castilian was a ship sunk by German submarine SM U-61 off Ireland in 1917.{{cite book|author=Tennent, A. J.|title=British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in World War One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDv573hawjcC&pg=PA79|year=2006|publisher=Periscope Publishing|location=Penzance|isbn=978-1-904381-36-5|page=79}}
She was built in 1890 as the Umbilo for the Natal Direct Line that in the 1890s plied the route between Durban in South Africa and London, also calling at St Helena.{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9511603|title=The Discovery Service|website=Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|accessdate=6 August 2018}} Umbilo is a district of Durban, South Africa. It was on the Umbilo that Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, King of the Zulus, and his party returned to Natal in 1898 after seven years exile on St Helena.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqYqnNcwlX4C&pg=PA66|title=Four Years on St Helena|first=Lynas|last=Murdoch|date=1 May 2010|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781452000275 |accessdate=6 August 2018|via=Google Books}} The ship featured on a postage stamp of St Helena in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnsstamps.post/en/stamps/SH017.04|title=WNS: SH017.04 (Merchant Ships - SS Umbilo)|website=Wnsstamps.post|accessdate=6 August 2018}}
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://iancoombe.tripod.com/id10.html|title=NATAL DIRECT LINE|website=Iancoombe.tripod.com|accessdate=6 August 2018}}
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Category:Maritime incidents in 1917
Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Ships built on the River Tees
Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
Category:Ships of the Ellerman Lines
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