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Union Castle Line
One sheet, This is a vintage poster advertising the Union-Castle Line's voyages to South and East Africa. The poster depicts a large ocean liner at sea. The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping company that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. The company was known for its distinctive fleet of ships with "Castle" in their names, which were often painted with a lavender-colored hull and had black and red funnels.
The company was formed from the merger of two rival shipping lines, the Union Line and the Castle Shipping Line, and it provided a regular weekly mail service between Southampton and Cape Town. The poster is believed to be a reproduction of a design by an anonymous artist, although some sources may attribute similar works to artists like Maurice Randall or Odin Rosenvinge. The image features a ship with four funnels, which suggests it may be the Arundel Castle or Windsor Castle of the early 1920s.
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Union Castle Line