Qualla: HMHS Glenart Castle https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:20 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: HMHS Glenart Castle https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle HMHS Glenart Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle/ Photo credit Etchacan1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. John Hill, a fisherman on the Swansea Castle, saw her in the small hours of 26 February 1918, lit up in the darkness of the Bristol Channel. Green lights ringed the saloon. Red sidelights burned at the port and starboard. A Red Cross lamp glowed from the mast. There was no mistaking what she was. But sometime before four in the morning, a torpedo from the German submarine UC-56 struck the No. 3 hold of HMHS Glenart Castle, and within minutes the hospital ship that had survived a mine strike the year before was going down. Of the 182 people aboard, only 29 would survive.

Read more: HMHS Glenart Castle on Qualla

Image: Etchacan1974 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/gch6-hmhs-glenart-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full HMHS Glenart Castle: A Ship with Nine Lives https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle/ Photo credit Etchacan1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. The vessel had been built in 1900 as the Galician, a steamship for the Union-Castle Line. When Britain entered the First World War on 4 August 1914, she was intercepted the very next day west of the Canary Islands by a German-flagged ship. Officers boarded her, searched her paper...

Read more: HMHS Glenart Castle on Qualla

Image: Etchacan1974 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/gch6-hmhs-glenart-castle-a-ship-with-nine-lives.mp3 0:06 2 full HMHS Glenart Castle: The Last Voyage https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle/ Photo credit Etchacan1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 25 February 1918, Glenart Castle departed Newport in South Wales, heading for Brest, France, to collect patients. She was empty of wounded, carrying only her crew and medical staff. Under the Hague Convention, hospital ships were to be clearly marked and immune from attack. Gl...

Read more: HMHS Glenart Castle on Qualla

Image: Etchacan1974 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/gch6-hmhs-glenart-castle-the-last-voyage.mp3 0:06 3 full HMHS Glenart Castle: Evidence in the Water https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle/ Photo credit Etchacan1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. What happened after the torpedo hit may have been even more damning than the attack itself. Newspaper reports at the time suggested that the submarine fired on survivors in the water, attempting to eliminate witnesses to the sinking of a protected vessel. The body of a junior off...

Read more: HMHS Glenart Castle on Qualla

Image: Etchacan1974 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/gch6-hmhs-glenart-castle-evidence-in-the-water.mp3 0:06 4 full HMHS Glenart Castle: Remembering the Lost https://qualla.com/hmhs-glenart-castle/ Photo credit Etchacan1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. For decades the sinking receded into the long catalog of wartime losses. Then, on the 84th anniversary of the attack, 26 February 2002, a memorial plaque was dedicated near Hartland Point, facing the stretch of sea where Glenart Castle went down. The inscription names Captain Bur...

Read more: HMHS Glenart Castle on Qualla

Image: Etchacan1974 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/6/hmhs-glenart-castle-wp/gch6-hmhs-glenart-castle-remembering-the-lost.mp3 0:06 5 full