SS Castilian (1919)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Castilian
Owner	Westcott & Laurance Line
Operator	Ellerman Lines
Port of registry	London
Builder	Sir Raylton Dixon & Co
Yard number	618
Launched	26 June 1919
Completed	1919
Identification	UK official number 143384 code letters KCJF (until 1933) Call sign GBVX (from 1934)
Fate	wrecked on rocks 12 February 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Shipping Controller Type C
Tonnage	3,067 GRT tonnage under deck 2,836 1,849 NRT
Length	331.3 ft (101.0 m)
Beam	46.8 ft (14.3 m)
Depth	23.2 ft (7.1 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	310 NHP
Propulsion	triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h)

SS Castilian was a British cargo steamship and is now a dangerous wreck in the Irish Sea off the coast of North Wales. She was built in 1919 to a standard First World War design. In 1943 while carrying munitions she struck rocks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey and sank.

An exclusion zone under section 2 of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 (Prohibition on approaching dangerous wrecks) forbids scuba diving within 500 metres (1,600 ft) of the wreck because her explosive cargo remains dangerous.^[1]