Safmarine ship SA Vaal, 32696 tons, at Richard's Bay for its inauguration by Prime Minister BJ Vorster on 1 April 1976, escorted by SAAF planes. Photo: HA Williams.
SS Umlazi, 4276 tons, seen sailing from Durban. She was a ship of the Natal Line of Steamers which sailed between London and South & East Africa and India.
RMMV Carnarvon Castle, 20148 tons, (with MV Durban Castle visible astern) seen in Port Elizabeth on 14 January 1956 en route to UK. Photo: Fr MNW Edwards.
HMS Pretoria Castle as an experimental aircraft carrier during flying trials in 1944. She was returned to the Union Castle Line after the Second World War and renamed Warwick Castle. Courtesy of Imperial War Museum.
Refrigerated cargo vessel MV Richmond Castle, 7971 tons, crossing the Cape Town Castle between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on 9 January 1955, en route to Port Elizabeth. Photo: Fr. MNW Edwards.
This beautiful photograph of RMS Edinburgh Castle was taken as the Union Castle ship arrived in Table Bay from the UK at dawn on 31 January 1963. Photo: Fr. MNW Edwards.
German government polar research/ supply ship MV Polarstern, 12558 tons, seen arriving in Cape Town. She regularly visits Antarctica. Photo: Dr. EM Cornish.
The Liberty Ship USS James McHenry, 7176 tons. This vessel called at Tristan da Cunha on 22 May 1943, possibly bound for Cape Town. Photo courtesy of WSS Photo Library.
Russian research vessel MS Professor Molchanov, 6450 tons, at Aberdeen in May 1998. She called at both Tristan da Cunha and Antarctica in 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003. Photo: Fr. MNW Edwards.
RMMV Stirling Castle, 25554 tons, seen at Durban on 5 December 1955. A Buries Marks cargo vessel (possibly La Hacienda) lies ahead. Photo: Fr. MNW Edwards.