HMHS Glenart Castle was a steamship built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line and renamed Glenart Castle in 1914, when she was refitted in October as a British hospital ship for the First World War. She struck a mine in the English Channel on 1 March 1917 and was towed into Portsmouth with all 115 crew, 68 medical staff and 525 patients saved, then returned to service in November 1917. On 26 February 1918 she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-56 in the Bristol Channel; of an estimated 182 aboard, 153 died, including Captain Bernard Burt and the matron Kate Beaufoy. Her wreck lies about 10 miles west of Lundy in 73 metres of water.
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HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line.
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HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line.
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On 26 February 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo fired from the German U-boat UC-56.
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HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line.
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HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line.
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