SS Mount Temple — historic photograph

Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd

SS Mount Temple

Passenger cargo steamship built in 1901

1901 Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Walker 7,656 GRT 485 ft Shipwreck
7,656GRT
Tonnage
485ft
Length
59ft
Beam
12knots
Speed
14passengers
Passengers
117crew
Crew

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. She was one of the first vessels to respond to the distress signals of RMS Titanic in 1912.

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.

Text: Wikipedia — SS Mount Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tonnage
7,656 GRT (1901–1903)
Length
485 ft 0 in
Beam
59 ft 0 in
Speed
12 knots
Passengers
1,250 3rd-class and 14 cabin-class passengers
Crew
117
Builder
Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Walker
Yard number
709
Launched
18 June 1901
Maiden voyage
19 September 1901
In service
1901–1916
Out of service
6 December 1916
Owner
Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd (1901–1903); Canadian Pacific Railway (1903–1916)
Port of registry
Liverpool
Propulsion
2 × Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co 3-cylinder triple expansion engines
Fate
Sunk by, 6 December 1916
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