SS Montrose (1897)
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For other ships with the same name, see SS Montrose.
SS Montrose was a British merchant steamship that was built in 1897 and wrecked in 1914. She was built as a cargo liner for Elder, Dempster & Company. In 1903 the Canadian Pacific Railway bought her and had her converted into a passenger liner.
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Name | Montrose |
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Port of registry | London |
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Builder | Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough |
Yard number | 441 |
Launched | 17 June 1897 |
Completed | September 1897 |
Maiden voyage | September 1897, Middlesbrough – Quebec – Montreal |
Refit | 1903 |
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Fate | Wrecked, 28 December 1914 |
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Tonnage | |
Length | 444.3 ft (135.4 m) |
Beam | 52.0 ft (15.8 m) |
Depth | 27.5 ft (8.4 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 632 NHP |
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Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
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Sensors and processing systems | By 1911: Submarine signalling |
Notes | Sister ships: Montcalm, Monteagle, Montfort |
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Montrose is notable for being the ship on which Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover Ethel Le Neve fled Britain after Crippen murdered his wife in 1910. Montrose was wrecked in the early months of the First World War after she broke her moorings.