Johann - the mariners wharf in Capetown is the place you refer to - and she has her original livery - she is mounted in a glass case I once asked the owner if he had ever thought of selling her - and he gave me the look that said a thousand words - the shop attached also has Union Castle Sepia Postcards for sale - at a ridicules price

My parents once sailed on her from Cape Town. They had fond memories of their trip to share with me.

bregards,
tvtech

I recently found (and photographed) Pendennis Castle's original on-board model where it currently resides in a restaurant in Hout Bay near Cape Town (in a beautiful, Union Castle-themed private dining room, I might add).

The plaque mounted next to the model details how the founders of the restaurant complex (who had met on Pendennis in August 1966) serendipitously came across the model during a trip to the USA in 1996. Interestingly, the plaque (which I have also photographed) states that they originally hardly recognised the model due to the fact that the funnel had been painted red, and the hull white.

Seeing this photo, I have to wonder whether some enterprising crew member during the ship's "afterlife" hadn't decided to take a paint brush to the model and "update" it to represent the then-current reality! Apparently (again, according to the plaque) the model was sold to an American buyer only at Kaohsiung, so it must have been on board the entire time.

What a beauty! mrdot.