RMS Windsor Castle (1921)

RMS Windsor Castle was an ocean liner of the Union-Castle Line, sister ship to RMS Arundel Castle, built for the route between the United Kingdom and South Africa. She was designed in 1913 and ordered from Harland and Wolff, but the First World War delayed the work and the yard subcontracted her construction to John Brown and Company, so she was not completed until 1922. With four funnels she was one of only two such liners designed for a route other than the transatlantic crossing, and she began her maiden voyage from Southampton to Cape Town in April 1922. In the 1930s a refit cut her funnels to two, gave her a raked bow and lengthened her to 686 feet. Requisitioned as a troopship in the Second World War, she was sunk by a German aerial torpedo off Algeria on 23 March 1943, and nearly all aboard were rescued.