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Name: MOUNT TEMPLE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/06/1901
Completed: 1901
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 709
Dimensions: 8790grt, 6661nrt, 485.0 x 59.0 x 30.4ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (22, 37 & 62 x 48ins), 694nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 113496
History:
1901 Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd, Liverpool
1903 Canadian Pacific Railway Co, Liverpool
1916 Canadian Pacific Railway Ocean Lines, Liverpool
06/12/1916 Sank
Comments: 1907: Ran aground on West Inbound Island, Nova Scotia
1908: Refloated
14/04/1912: Controversy surrounds her response (or lack of) to TITANIC's distress calls
06/12/1916: Sank after being captured and scuttled by
German raider MOWE when 620 miles W by S of Fastnet
On a voyage from Montreal to Brest & London with horses & general cargo


Above photo of MOUNT TEMPLE aground in Novia Scotia in 1907/8 courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 19/06/1901