Guelph
Ship Number
284
Vessel Type
Passenger Ship
Built
Belfast
Launch Date
26 June 1894
Delivered
8 September 1894
Owner
Union Steamship Co.
Weight
4917 grt
BP Length
400 feet
Breadth
47 feet
No. of Screws
Twin
Speed (approx)
11.5 knots
Propulsion
Triple expansion
Official No.
104040
Registered
Southampton
Fate
Wrecked
 Guelph

Entered service in October 1894 on the Southampton-Tenerife-Cape Town-Durban Intermediate service.
 
On 8th March, 1900 she was transferred to Union-Castle following the merger and was initially used as a Boer War troopship.
 
On 27th July 1909, whilst sailing in heavy seas off Hood's Point, South Africa, she spotted the lights of a large vessel. She communicated by lamp but only the last two letters of the Morse Code response were understood; the letters being AH. About the same time the Waratah was lost without a trace.
 
On 13th September 1910 she was deployed on the London-Suez-East Africa route as competition for the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie.
 
In 1913 she was replaced by the Dunvegan Castle and subsequently sold to Royal Mail S.P.. Company for their new Canada-West Indies-British Guiana passenger/cargo service and renamed Caraquet.
 
On 25th June 1923 she was wrecked near Hamilton, Bermuda.