SS Mount Temple
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Mount Temple was a passenger cargo steamship built in 1901 by Armstrong Whitworth & Company of Newcastle for Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd of Liverpool to operate as part of its Beaver Line. The ship was shortly afterwards acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was one of the first vessels to respond to the distress signals of RMS Titanic in 1912.
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Mount Temple aground at West Ironbound Island | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Mount Temple |
Namesake | Baron Mount Temple |
Owner |
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Port of registry | Liverpool |
Route | |
Builder | Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Walker[1] |
Yard number | 709 |
Launched | 18 June 1901 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Swan |
Completed | 19 September 1901 |
Maiden voyage | 19 September 1901 |
In service | 1901–1916 |
Out of service | 6 December 1916 |
Homeport | Liverpool |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by SMS Möwe, 6 December 1916 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 485 ft 0 in (147.83 m) |
Beam | 59 ft 0 in (17.98 m) |
Depth | 30 ft 4 in (9.25 m) |
Installed power | 694 nhp[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 12.0 knots (13.8 mph; 22.2 km/h)[1] |
Capacity | 1,250 3rd-class and 14 cabin-class passengers |
Crew | 117 |
Armament | 3-inch naval gun in WWI |
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In 1916, while crossing the Atlantic with horses for the war effort and carrying a large number of newly collected dinosaur fossils (two of which were the hadrosaurs Corythosaurus), she was captured and scuttled complete with her cargo.