Name: | MOUNT ROYAL |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 17/08/1898 |
Completed: | 11/1898 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 230 |
Dimensions: | 8747grt, 4599nrt, 470.0 x 56.0 x 32.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (28, 46 & 75 x 54ins), 505nrt |
Engines by: | Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 109498 |
History: | |
11/1898 | Elder Dempster & Co, Liverpool |
1900 | Elder Dempster Shipping Ltd, Liverpool |
1903 | Canadian Pacific Railway Co, Liverpool |
1914 | British Royal Navy |
1915 | Renamed RANGOL |
07/1916 | The Admiralty, London |
11/1916 | Renamed MAPLELEAF (Lane & Macandrew, managers) |
10/1919 | British Tanker Co Ltd, London |
1920 | Renamed BRITISH MAPLE |
1933 | Broken up |
Comments: | 10/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to dummy battleship MARLBOROUGH |
1915: Converted to a fleet oiler with cylindrical tanks in her holds | |
06/06/1922: Stationed at Southampton Water as a bunker depot ship | |
27/12/1932: Arrived for breaking up at Rosyth. Cost £4,000 | |
01/1933: Breaking up commenced by Metal Industries | |
05/1933: Hulk used for slops storage at Charlestown | |
06/03/1935: Breaking up completed at Rosyth |
Above photo as MOUNT ROYAL is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as BRITISH MAPLE is copyright of the State Library of Queensland