Scrap Tours- RMS WINDSOR CASTLE at the Ship Breakers.

[JIMGABAL]

....κρανίου τόπος....!!!

[AFLAM3]

Oh I remember the Windsor Castle well, I had a couple of friends working on it from the UK. One night they persuaded me to Stow away & go to England with them, lol. They managed to sneak me on the ship. But next morning I chickened out, and left the ship. I often wonder how different my life would have been if I had stayed on the ship!

Also remember a cute guy on there, Jimmy Wilson - HI Jimmy [Waves]

[MrBluebird425]

Yes it,s also sad for me to see this footage.My parents took me on a trip on this luxury ship in 1977 from Port Elizabeth to Durban and return.I,ve got all the menus and 1 or 2 foto,s.It was a unforgettable trip for me!!

[blujoos]

@MrBluebird425 i would love to see those pics and scans of the menus, i remember the creamed minced lamb being out of this world x

[blujoos]

i sailed to cape town on her in 76, its sad to see this.

[Ocram83187]

OMG, the first one is the beautiful Eugenio Costa...the diamond of the italian style in 60, 70 and 80'. So sad to see her before scrapping...

[speakswahilidammit]

So-oo sad to see the old lady like this! She & other Castle Line ships carried us so safely and well to & from East Africa when I was a kid. Such happy times, such memories. Just like the African bush where I grew up with incredibly kind tribes-folk, where we were surrounded by amazing wild animals, these princesses of the sea helped give us an unforgettable childhood. I weep for these ships. Their likes will never be seen again. Kenya Castle appears briefly near the end of my short video.

[luvpump1]

interesting stuff

[PRR5406]

The paneling, the art, furniture, fixtures, tables, toilets, beds, everything else, is salvaged for resale and marketing. The ship is outmoded, dead, and retired, so the steel is recycled. The architecture is gone, except in pictures. The real tragedy is the cost in the lives of the poor who are exploited to harvest these ships. They live in and breathe toxins all day and night, wading fuel oil soaked sands. It's work and economics. It's life.

[BertHigginbottom]

Are you right in the head or what Thehoff its spent metal ffs! Its not as even the Windsor Castle is anything special, no historic value, no records broken, totally nothing of importance other than I imagine you went on it as a kid!

Nope! Youre only 28! Couldnt be that!, I give up!!!

[BertHigginbottom]

It's just machinery getting recycled! no big deal, time moves on. You don't want the Windsor Castle to halt progress while you get all sentimental do you?

[thehoff1982]

you must be very popular at funerals when you announce that its just rotting flesh in a box and we should hurry up and bin it because the burial is delaying our lives - you prick!

[blujoos]

@BertHigginbottom Bert, have you never been attached to anything which is not a person? An old car, house, place?

[commodorch]

The 1st ship that appear in the video (the red one) is Eugenio C? I traveled with that ship! Was great!! Very sad

[LordRattler765]

12 T_T goodbye Eugenio C....you were the first true cruise ship in design...

[pablocamoranesi]

So sad to see this fiootage. I travelled between Cape Town/Southampton many times during the 70's on the Edinburgh Castle & Windsor Castle. Also between Cape Town & Barcelona on Lloyd Triestino line in early 70's,,Europa, Africa, Asia, etc. I have some old, but good quality, cine movie of all these ships maybe I'll get to transfer one day and upload.

[4xforum]

I tried to save this ship here in South Africa.. but nobody cared. Nobody could see the vision. I would love to get hold of this footage as I am collector of all things Windsor Castle.

[bj2905]

@ 59secs.... thats one fuck off big engine

[lightening777]

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See my profile vid and channel

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[homeric9]

This guy's pics are obvious Photoshop'd...amusing to watch.

[homeric9]

This guy has quite the imagination. All his videos are Photoshop'd and then this dilusional idiot gives credit to what has to be a fictitious person for "secretly" making them.

It's these irresponsible videos that accomplish nothing and make the efforts of some people with genuine ideas that much harder.

Stay away from this guy, a total loser.

[dsbeaumont]

What a sad end to a beautiful ship.I worked on Pendennis Castle in the early 70's and remember passing Windsor Castle at sea.Like Gilesfly anyone got any footage from Pendennis castle. Remember plenty of passengers taking footage so gotta be out there.

[residualvolume]

Pendennis Castle was the last Union Castle liner I travelled on - Cape Town to Southampton back in 1968. I grew up in S.A. and we travelled to & from there to the U.K. several times during my childhood - always on a lavender hulled liner. Winchester, Stirling, Athlone, Pendennis, Castles and of course this one too. Happy, happy memories ...... I too would like to see footage.

[ManWhoLovesTheMary]

That is strange to see. You just look at the railing and think about how a passenger once gazed out at the ocean in wonder, or excitedly at an upcoming port. Intersting to walk a corridor that has the outside right next to you. It truly is sad...

[AlexiaDamaris]

WTF????

[psari]

Many thanks, excellent.

[Gilesfly]

Interesting. Anyone Know if there is any film out there of the Edinburgh Castle arriving in Cape TOWN IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES?

[Lkyda]

What Berth's did we dock at in Cape Town and which one did we sail from " I know "A" berth was one but the one closer to town. I sailed on Carnarvon ,Edinburgh , Pendennis, SA Vaal- we'd walk around to the Windsor from A berth when we were in port together

[calvado19]

Fascinating. Thank you. Can I ask please when it was filmed? Thanks.

[JohnOX4]

A very sad end to a fine ship. Amazing to see the video footage. I was living in Cape Town in 1977, when the Southampton run came to end. It seemed like another phase in the end of Empire with old ties being cut. I vividly remembering admiring the Windsor Castle. Sometimes I went to the docks to see relatives off; and sometimes just to admire her.

[majaorca100]

such a waste

[majaorca100]

awesome footage, very interesting...but soooo sad :(

[tillyrosie]

Sailed on the Windsor Castle in the 1970's. I have managed to collect some very good pieces from her and othe UC ships. The end of an era!

[eugene8047]

dam fine ship built cammell laird england

[jamesonmp]

tides coming in quick, had to get off in a hurry...we get to near the bow and theres no superstructure where there should be and its a long way down! precarious jacobs ladder descent to follow...that was the easy bit, the hard bit was to then negotiate 10,000's of fittings and fixtures from the ships owner and then get them safely off the ship somehow and then home to Devon, England! Merry Christmas, Trinity Marine.

[homeric9]

Fascinating video! thank you for sharing this insight.