The packet steamer SS Rushen Castle was operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from its purchase in 1928 until it was sold for breaking in 1947...
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historic capital, Castletown. HMS Rushen Castle, a Royal Navy Castle-class corvette launched in 1943. SS Rushen Castle, a packet steamer which was operated...
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(ex-HMS Hever Castle) HMCS Hespeler (K489) (ex-HMS Guildford Castle) (later SS Chilcotin) HMCS Humberstone (K497) (ex-HMS Norham Castle) HMCS Huntsville...
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SS Empire Peacemaker was a British convoy rescue ship that served at the end of World War II, originally laid down as the corvette HMS Scarborough Castle...
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SS Empire Shelter was a convoy rescue ship built for the Royal Navy during World War II, originally laid down as the Castle-class corvette HMS Barnard...
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SS Empire Rest was a convoy rescue ship built for the Royal Navy during World War II, originally laid down as the Castle-class corvette Rayleigh Castle...
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SS Empire Comfort was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMS York Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle...
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of war, the Steam Packet operated a fleet comprising 16 ships. The Rushen Castle and Snaefell were kept to maintain the Isle of Man's vital link with...
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HMS Denbigh Castle (K696) was one of 44 Castle-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The ship was completed at the end of 1944...
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mail, and would revert at other times to a standard designation such as "SS". Originally, the British Admiralty operated these ships. The designation...
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steamer SS Peel Castle was operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from her purchase in 1912 until she was sold for breaking in 1939. Peel Castle was...
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SS Cushag was a coastal cargo vessel owned and operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1920 and 1943. Cushag was a steel; single-screw...
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HMS Norham Castle, initially named Totnes Castle, was a Castle-class corvette constructed for the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. Before...
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rescue ship of the Second World War. Initially built as HMS Maiden Castle - one of 44 Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy - she was completed in...
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service as SS Wellington Kent in 1947. In 1951, the ship was renamed Belle Isle II. In 1960, Belle Isle II was sunk in a collision. The Castle class were...
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SS (RMS) Ellan Vannin (the Manx name for the Isle of Man) was built as an iron paddle steamer in 1860 at Meadowside, Glasgow for the Isle of Man Steam...
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SS Mona's Isle was a steam turbine passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1905 as Onward, renamed Mona's Isle in 1920, and scrapped in Wales in 1948...
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"Convoy OS.93/KMS.67". Convoyweb. Retrieved 27 December 2008. "HMS Rushen Castle (K 372)". Lindsay Clubb. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011...
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SS (RMS) Tynwald (I), No. 21921, was an iron paddle-steamer which served with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, and was the first vessel in the Company...
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SS (RMS) Viking was a steel, triple-screw turbine-driven passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1905 and 1954. Viking...
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SS Conister (I) No. 145470 – the first vessel in the company's history to bear the name – was a coastal cargo vessel which was purchased by the Isle of...
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SS or RMS The Ramsey was a passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from 1912 to 1914. She had been built in 1895 as Duke of...
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SS Mona (II) No.124188 was a steel built packet steamer which was originally named the SS Hazel, and was operated by the Laird Line from 1907 to 1919...
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decided that this would become the primary duty of the Victoria and the Rushen Castle. Minefields were laid by the Royal Navy around the approaches to the...
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(1889) Tynwald (1891) Tyrconnel (1892) Peel Castle (1894) The Ramsey (1895) Empress Queen (1897) Rushen Castle (1898) Former vessels (1900-98) Menevia (1902)...
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SS Empress Queen was a steel-hulled paddle steamer, the last of her type ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. The Admiralty chartered her in...
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SS (RMS) Douglas (III) – the third vessel in the line's history to bear the name – was a packet steamer which entered service with the London and South...
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SS Mona (I) - the first vessel in the Company's history to be so named - was a wooden paddle steamer that was operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet...
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SS Tyrconnel, was a coastal cargo vessel which was purchased by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, in 1911. Tyrconnel was a single-screw steel steamship...
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SS (RMS) Mona (III), the third ship of the Company to bear the name, was a steel paddle-steamer which was originally owned and operated by the London,...
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