User:Wikipedian7878/HMHSQueenstownCastle
The Queenstown Castle steaming away from Queenstown.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 UK | |
| Name | HMHS Worcestershire Castle |
| Owner |  White Star Line |
| Port of registry | Southampton |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Laid down | June 5, 1916 |
| Launched | March 18, 1917 |
| Christened | Not christened |
| Completed | March 6, 1918 |
| Maiden voyage | May 17, 1918 |
| Fate | Torpedoed in the Mid-Atlantic in 1918 on her first voyage. |
| Status | Sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Dorsetshire class hospital-ship |
| Displacement | 806 tons |
| Length | 114 ft 7 in (34.93 m) |
| Beam | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 bronze triple blade outboard wing propellers. |
| Speed | |
| Capacity | list error: <br /> list (help) 336 as hospital ship 274 wounded, 221 medical staff as hospital ship |
| Crew | 38 |
The HMHS Queenstown Castle was a British hospital that was torpedoed by a German U-boat on her first voyage. When the torpedo hit it shot up a plume of black up the funnel. Then it turned to fire suddenly it collapsed crushing on numerous people, Along with 2 lifeboats, Which fell off the ship smashed. 289 people died on the ship that fateful day. The ship was equipped with 10 lifeboats 8 was only left only 5 were launched leaving 3 behind. With only 44 surviving it was a terrible wreck it only sunk in 16 minutes the captain of the Ship Captain Milton Brown shot him self in the bridge. The survivors said that the ship went down by bow first and then lifted high up into the air until it was a direct right angle. And then it plunged into the deep water very fast crushing one life boat under it's own weight.