Tonnage: 1 735 tons gross, 1 634 under deck and 1 116 net. Rigging: steel construction, single screw steam Schooner, 2 decks, iron upper deck sheathed in wood, awning deck and 5 cemented bulkheads. She was fitted with electric light. Flat keel, cellular double bottom 188 feet long, 236 tons. Forward Peak tank 18 tons and aft peak tank 27 tons. Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 3 cylinders of 24, 38 and 62 inches diameter respectively, stroke 42 inches delivering 276 nominal horsepower. 2 single ended boilers, 6 corrugated furnaces, grate surface 112 sq. ft., heating surface 4,552 sq. ft. The engine was built by Amos & Smith in Hull. Call sign: LSFR. Official registration #: 95834. Master: Captain G. Pepper, appointed to the ship in 1890. Capt. Pepper had been employed on Wilson Line steamers in Norwegians seas for many years, as he started out as 3rd mate on the "Albion" in 1872. Later he become the captain of the "S/S Tasso" and the "S/S Hero". The Montebello served on the Christiania - Christiansand - Hull service from 1890 till 1909. Her first departure from Christiania (Oslo) was on July 4th, 1890, and after about 463 voyages she departed Christiania for her last voyage on the service on May 22nd, 1909. Through the years she carried more than 34,000 passengers from Christiania to Hull (Christiansand passengers not counted). The Montebello vas very steady on the service, and did not have many interruptions from her every second week departures from Christiania, a route which she from 1890-1905 shared with the S/S Angelo. However, on May 1st, 1905, the Montebello ran aground off Nordre Sletter (Larkollen) , and had to be replaced by the S/S Volo, and the S/S Romeo until she returned on the service in June. After In June 1910 she was sold to a Spanish company, and renamed "Barcelo". Scrapped in 1929.

Picture of the S/S Montebello, from an old postcard
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Picture of the S/S Montebello, from an old postcard
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Picture of the S/S Montebello, from an old postcard
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Emigrants embark the ship at Kristiania

The image above is scanned from an old stereoview, published by B. W. Kilburn, Littleton, 1896. It is showing the Wilson Line steamship Montebello at the Bjørvika Pier in Christiania. The large buildings in the background are part of the railway station "Østbanen". In the background at the right we can see smoke raising from where the platforms for the trains were located. In the surrounding areas the agents of the great transatlantic steamship lines had their offices, and the emigrants were met by the agents as they arrived Christiania by train. The pier from where the emigrants departed on the Wilson Line ships on their way to Hull, is at the same place as where "Scandinavan Star" departed from in 1990, on her last voyage before the terrible fire in which 158 lifes were lost. The new opera which is being built in Oslo, will be located just to the right from where the Montebello is moored, and the new Hotel Opera just where the smoke is coming up fro the train.