HMHS Braemar Castle

HMHS Braemar Castle was a hospital ship which served with the Royal Navy in the First World War, as well as serving as a troop ship in the Second Boer War and the Greco-Turkish War.

She was built in 1898 and originally served as a passenger liner with the Union-Castle Line, sailing from Southampton to South Africa. At the start of the Boer War, and from 1909, she served as a troop ship, for the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and in Gallipoli in 1915. From 1915, she was converted to a hospital ship, hitting a mine in the Agean sea in November 1916 and being repaired at La Spezia. She continued to serve as a hospital ship until 1922, sailing to Murmansk in 1918 and staying until 1921, the last non-Russian ship to leave Archangel. Braemar Castle continued to serve as a troop ship before being sold for scrap in Italy in 1924.