Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company
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- Year book and guide to East Africa, 1950 ed.:t.p. (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited)
- Porter, A.N. Victorian shipping, business, and imperial policy, 1886:CIP galley (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company; formed 1900 when Castle Line took over Union Steam Ship Company [no publs. in LC data base])
- Encyc. brit., c1978:Micropaedia, v. 3, p. 305 (Union-Castle Line)
- The Ships list website, viewed June 2, 2013(Union Steamship Company; formed in 1853; became the Union Steam Collier Co the same year; started developing routes, in 1857 were awarded the mail contract between the UK and South Africa; in 1876 a joint mail contract with the Castle Line was awarded by the Colonial Govt. with the proviso that the two companies not amalgamate; after that contract expired in 1899, they merged to become the Union-Castle Mail SS Co and received the new mail contract)