Montcalm 1897

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Name:	MONTCALM
Type:	Cargo Ship
Launched:	17/05/1897
Completed:	08/1897
Builder:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard:	Jarrow
Yard Number:	724
Dimensions:	7166grt, 5512nrt, 445.0 x 52.2 x 27.6ft
Engines:	T3cyl (30, 50.25 & 81.5 x 54ins), 793nhp
Engines by:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 12.5knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	106869

History:
08/1897	African Steamship Co (Elder, Dempster Line, managers)
1903	Canadian Pacific Line
1916	British Royal Navy (Leyland Line, managers)
1917	Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co became managers; renamed CRENELLA
10/1917	UK Shipping Controller became managers
1919	Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co
19/10/1920	Velefa Shipping Co (W Runciman), London
1923	C Nielsen & Co; renamed REY ALFONSO
by 1925	HM Wrangell & Co, Haugesund
1927	Anglo-Norse Co, Tronsberg (H Borge, manager); renamed ANGLO-NORSE
1929	Falkland Whaling Co; renamed POLAR CHIEF
1941	Ministry of War Transport, British Government; renamed EMPIRE CHIEF
1945	Ministry of Transport, British Government
1946	South Georgia Co Ltd, Leith; renamed POLAR CHIEF
29/04/1952	Broken up

Comments:	08/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty
	10/1914: Converted into a dummy of battleship HMS AUDACIOUS
	1915: Used as a naval stores ship
	1916: Converted to a tanker
	26/11/1917:Damaged by a torpedoed off Ireland but made it to port
	1923: Converted to a whaling depot ship
	29/04/1952: Broken up at Dalmuir by WH Arnott, Young & Co