Great video when liners were great ships to sail in, times more innocent and less complicated than today, no internet, no mobile phones. Great service, proud British seafaring traditions, all gone today with the modern floating apartment style ships with boutique shopping centres and gambling dens designed to suck your wallet dry! It might have been a company promotional film for the ship but I enjoyed it very much, thank you!
Just found this by accident. Quite unreal. My uncle was engineer on this ship but it was really just a name from my very young childhood until now. Great to have something from those days brought to life.
Cunard had the queens of the Atlantic, but the union castle line had the lavender queens of South Africa. She was a beautiful ocean liner, it’s so sad neither her nor windsor castle were preserved
My cabin was not like this!!! Happy memories of three Union Castle trips, the last one on this but as The Vaal and two on Windsor. All that smoking though..ugh!!
This is certainly far more enticing that any modern cruise advertisement I have ever seen. They all seem to smoke though, which undoes the good of having the thinner bodies!
Remarkable how fit and slender the general population was back then. By comparison Noakes is on trial for stating the obvious in that something has gone seriously wrong with the main stream diet. Enjoyable upload to view - Thanks
No Reina del mar was a liner union castle chartered, then bought she was rebuilt and joined their fleet. Transvaal castle became part of sad marine and was repainted white with a grey funnel. The Reina eel mar was scrapped in the late 70s
@@mikeoas The Transvaal and Pretoria Castles were bought by Safmarine and run by Union Castle as the SA Vaal and the SA Oranje respectively, I sailed as 4/O on the SA Oranje for 16 months. There was Captain Thomson and two South African 4/O's, and a SA 3/O on each of the two vessels, with Captain Thomson being the only South African master, with the balance of officers and crew all being British!
The Transvaal Castle / SA Vaal was sold to Carnival corp and become their Festivale. This involved a rebuild in Japan that transformed her into a very good looking cruise ship. Scrapped 2003 Alang, India.
I travelled on the Edinburgh Castle in 1971.....so sad when these ships were scrapped - the end of a wonderful era.
Fantastic film to watch. I’ve spent many a day looking at the UC ships and enjoyed many hours
Great video when liners were great ships to sail in, times more innocent and less complicated than today, no internet, no mobile phones. Great service, proud British seafaring traditions, all gone today with the modern floating apartment style ships with boutique shopping centres and gambling dens designed to suck your wallet dry! It might have been a company promotional film for the ship but I enjoyed it very much, thank you!
Just found this by accident. Quite unreal. My uncle was engineer on this ship but it was really just a name from my very young childhood until now. Great to have something from those days brought to life.
Thank you for this look back at a bygone era. There's also a video on the final sailing of the Windsor Castle from Cape Town, 6th Sept 1977.
Cunard had the queens of the Atlantic, but the union castle line had the lavender queens of South Africa. She was a beautiful ocean liner, it’s so sad neither her nor windsor castle were preserved
My cabin was not like this!!! Happy memories of three Union Castle trips, the last one on this but as The Vaal and two on Windsor. All that smoking though..ugh!!
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This is certainly far more enticing that any modern cruise advertisement I have ever seen. They all seem to smoke though, which undoes the good of having the thinner bodies!
The good old days when we weren't scared of anything!
Remarkable how fit and slender the general population was back then. By comparison Noakes is on trial for stating the obvious in that something has gone seriously wrong with the main stream diet. Enjoyable upload to view - Thanks
it's a promo ,their actors and models.
22 days from Southhampton to Capetown....beter days...2 days more to Port Elizabeth...with Susan Hampshire of Forsythe Saga ...beter days of T.V too
Didn't she become the Reina del Mar?
I dont know will ask a shipping bof.
No Reina del mar was a liner union castle chartered, then bought she was rebuilt and joined their fleet. Transvaal castle became part of sad marine and was repainted white with a grey funnel. The Reina eel mar was scrapped in the late 70s
@@mikeoas The Transvaal and Pretoria Castles were bought by Safmarine and run by Union Castle as the SA Vaal and the SA Oranje respectively, I sailed as 4/O on the SA Oranje for 16 months. There was Captain Thomson and two South African 4/O's, and a SA 3/O on each of the two vessels, with Captain Thomson being the only South African master, with the balance of officers and crew all being British!
The Transvaal Castle / SA Vaal was sold to Carnival corp and become their Festivale. This involved a rebuild in Japan that transformed her into a very good looking cruise ship. Scrapped 2003 Alang, India.