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Name: ROSEMOUNT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/06/1896
Completed: 07/1896
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 63
Dimensions: 1580grt, 989nrt, 244.3 x 40.2 x 18.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 34 & 57 x 39ins), 210nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 103565
History:
08/08/1896 Montreal Transportation Company, Montreal
1917 Cie Generale Transatlantique; renamed AUBE
1922 DH Mapes Jr, Montreal; renamed ROSEMOUNT
1923 Aube Steamship Co (Mapes & Ferdon Ltd), Montreal; renamed AUBE
1932 Sin-Mac Lines, Montreal
1937 Broken up
Comments: 1918: Laid up at St Nazaire until 1922
1926: Stranded in the Brockville Narrows of the St Lawrence
1926: Refloated & subsequently repaired
1927: Collided with a scow in the Welland Canal. Subsequently repaired
1930: Damaged in a severe Lake Superior storm. Subsequently repaired
1931: Laid up at Lachine Port Quebec
1932: Laid up at Sorel
Q4/1937: Broken up at Sorel by Les Chantiers Manseau


Above photo as ROSEMOUNT is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as ROSEMOUNT is copyright of AE Young

Above photo as AUBE is copyright of Bruce Carson

Above photo as AUBE is copyright of Simzer collection, courtesy of George Ayoub

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 11/06/1896