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“DUART CASTLE”/ “ORURO”
“Duart Castle” and her sister ship “Taymouth Castle” were built by Barclay, Curie & Co in
Glasgow for the Castle Mail S.S. Co. in 1878. In 1891 she was sold to Sir Christopher Furness who
immediately resold her to Pickford & Black of Halifax who placed her on the government subsidised run
from Canada to the West Indies. In 1902 she was renamed “Oruro”. In 1920 she was sold to Far East
interests and was broken up in Bombay in 1925
A letter that was franked with a lAd and 2 x Id from St Lucia. Addressed to Nova Scotia and
nominated to go on the “Duart Castle” the adhesives were cancelled in Castries on 24th March 1898.
A letter franked with a 5 cent Guiana adhesive which was cancelled in Georgetown on 17th July
1901. Addressed to New York it was nominated to go on the “O ruro” and arrived there on the 31st, a
14-day transit. It must have been transferred to another vessel somewhere, probably in Barbados.
