| Name: | MONTEREY |
| Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 25/11/1897 |
| Completed: | 05/1898 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 728 |
| Dimensions: | 5455grt, 3489nrt, 445.0 x 52.2 x 27.6ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (30, 50 & 81.5 x 54ins), 661nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 109427 |
| History: | |
| 25/05/1898 | Elder Dempster & Co, Liverpool |
| 1899 | Elder Dempster Shipping Ltd, Liverpool |
| 1903 | Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Liverpool |
| 14/07/1903 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Designed for the Dominion Line service between Montreal, Quebec & Bristol |
| 17/03/1900: Loaded 755 x Canadian troops & 599 x horses for Cape Town & Boer War | |
| 14/07/1903: Wrecked on West Point Platte, Little Miquelon | |
| On a voyage from Montreal to Bristol with cattle and general cargo |
Above: Leaving Halifax with Strathcona's Horse on 17/03/1900. Photo by Steele & Co
Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 27/11/1897