RMS Saxon

The RMS Saxon was a Royal Mail Ship that entered service with the Castle Line, later the Union-Castle Line, in 1900 on the passenger and mail run between Britain and South Africa. She was the fourth ship of that name, and after the Boer War she was one of nine ships that made up the Southampton to Cape Town mail run. Lord Alfred Milner sailed in her in 1901 and again in 1925. In the First World War she was requisitioned as a troopship and made six Atlantic crossings in 1918 carrying American troops from New York to France. A serious fire in 1921 forced her to be escorted to Freetown, where another ship took her passengers and mail. She was retired in 1930 and replaced by the refrigerated ship Warwick Castle.