Pretoria Castle

Last updated December 25, 2021

Pretoria Castle may refer to one of the following ships:

HMS Pretoria Castle (F61), a Union-Castle Line ocean liner acquired by the Royal Navy in World War II; employed as armed merchant cruiser; later converted to escort carrier; resold to Union-Castle in 1946; scrapped in 1962
Pretoria Castle (1947), an ocean liner, launched in 1947, later renamed the S.A. Oranje, and scrapped in 1975

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