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Union Line[edit]

The article has a link to Union Line page, but page details Union steamship of New Zealand which is not the Union Line which merges with Castle Line to form Union Castle Line. The English Union Line was founded in 1853 as the Southampton Steam Shipping Co, later Union Steam Collier Co. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.204.81.201 (talk) 13:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Here are some resources that might be useful for expanding this article, if they can be corroborated - Pointillist (talk) 19:56, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scan of contemporary New York Times story about the 1911 acquisition
Gjenvick-Gjønvik's Union-Castle Line Archives
Merchant Navy nostalgia: UNION-CASTLE LINE
Life at Sea with Union-Castle - 4th para is particularly interesting
Engineering Report on the cause of the CapeTown Castle accident in Las Palmas, 1960
Union, Castle and Union Castle Lines at merchantnavyofficers.com: intro, part 1, part 2, part 3
In his autobiography Matthew Parris recalls his parents' opinion of Union Castle after they travelled to South Africa in 1948 and back to England about 18 months later. "The British lines such as Union Castle on which they had sailed to and from South Africa had been slovenly, with surly, unionized staff. On our return by Union Castle from South Africa the crew had pilfered on an epic scale." Chance Witness. Penguin Books. 2013. p. 27. ISBN 9780241968291.
Some comments at cruisecritic.co.uk here and here
An opinion here that the work UNION-CASTLE CHRONICLE 1853-1953 is not a reliable source because it was commissioned by the company.