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Union-Castle Line's Pretoria Castle, which entered the South Africa passenger-cargo service in 1948, was sold in 1965 to the Safmarine Corporation with the result that she was named SA Oranje for the second part of her career.]]></description>
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           <title>Rare look at great ship’s final farewell</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[At dawn her sirens sounded a long farewell and as the great Cunarder Queen Elizabeth slipped her mooring ropes for the last time a big part of Southampton was lost forever.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[By introducing the first hotel-class liner, Transvaal Castle, in the early 1960's, the Union-Castle Line brought a new attitude to ocean travel.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[In September, 1943 cinema audiences were able to watch a newsreel film of the first exchange of wounded British and German prisoners-of-war, carried out by the hospital ship Atlantis with her Royal Mail Lines crew.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[British India Line's centenary year - 1956 - was marked by the handing over of its biggest ship, the 20,527-ton Nevasa.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[Sadness touched many homes at Christmas 1963 due to the loss by fire off Madeira of Greek Line's 20,300-ton vessel Lakonia.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[IT IS more than 40 years ago that Canberra, one of the most revolutionary ships of her time, left Southampton on her maiden voyage.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[DURING 25 years service the 29,000-ton Arcadia carried 430,000 passengers and steamed 2,650,000 miles, equivalent to 100 times around the world.]]></description>
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           <title>The final break for great ship of Cape</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Another old friend of Southampton, remembered with great affection by many in the city, is making that lonely one-way voyage to the breaker's yard.]]></description>
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