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Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 20 Send Message	Unknown	Report	10 Mar 2019 15:25
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 20 Send Message	Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me I'm trying to find a passenger lists for the ship Pretoria Castle, Year 1971 either June or July departure was from Cape Town to Southampton. The company was Union Castle Line which ceased I believe in 1977. Sorry folks I now been told the ship was called S.A. Oranje it was originally the Pretoira Castle.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29 988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	10 Mar 2019 15:30
	The majority, it not all, online passenger list records cease in 1960. According to the following website, the Pretoria Castle was scrapped in 1975. http://www.lastoceanliners.com/cgi/lolline.pl?UCL
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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29 988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	10 Mar 2019 15:44
	You could see what the National Archives hold - it keeps timing out for me http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=pretoria+castle
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Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 20 Send Message	Unknown	Report	10 Mar 2019 16:04
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 20 Send Message	Thanks for info I'll give national archives a try.