Contents: Origins; Cape Town 1857; Under Way; Eastwards 1863-1865; Diamonds 1866-1872; Donald Currie; Mainly Zanzibar; Castle versus Union 1873-1877; Donald Currie Ascendant; Further Achievement 1880-1883; 1883-1888; Gold 1886-1894; Exit Union. Enter Union-Castle 1900; War in South Africa 1899-1902; Lats of the Curries; The First World War 1914-1918; Depression; Reconstruction 1931-1939; The Second World War, part 1; The Second World War, part 2; The South African Coast; East Africa, America, and Elsewhere; Log Book; After the War 1945-1947; Launch of the R.M.S. ‘Pretoria Castle’; 1947-1953; Directors from 1912; Appendix: List of Ships. Past and Present; Chronological list of ships; Index.