| Name: | TYNEMOUNT |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 26/03/1913 |
| Completed: | 09/1913 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 908 |
| Dimensions: | 1644grt, 1062nrt, 250.0 x 42.5 x 17.1ft |
| Engines: | Diesel Electric, 600nhp; (1914: T3cyl (14.5, 24.5 & 40 x 30), 80nhp) |
| Engines by: | Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd, Stockport & Mavor & Coulson Ltd, Glasgow; |
| (1914: Earle's Co Ltd, Hull) | |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 133544 |
| History: | |
| 02/12/1913 | Electric Marine Propulsion Co Ltd (Stamp, Mann & Co), Newcastle |
| 1914 | Reuben A McLelland, Newcastle & Kingston, Ontario |
| 1914 | Renamed PORT DALHOUSIE |
| 19/03/1916 | Sank |
| Comments: | The first seagoing vessel to be electrically propelled |
| 1913: Hull subcontracted to Smith's Dock Co Ltd, South Bank | |
| 1914: Re-engined by Earl's | |
| 19/03/1916: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB10, 2 miles SxW of Kentish Knock LV | |
| On a voyage from Middlesbrough to Nantes with a cargo of steel billets |
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Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 13/10/1913