S.S. Montcalm (1), Canadian Pacific Line

Ship Data

Type Built Burden Dimensions Line / Owner
S.S. 1897 at Jarrow-on-Tyne by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. 5,505 gross 445ft x 52.5ft Canadian Pacific Line

Montcalm (1) - Canadian Pacific Line steamship
Montcalm (1) - Canadian Pacific Line steamship
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Chronological History

Year Event
1897 May 17, launched for Elder Dempster
1897 Sept. 3, maiden voyage Avonmouth - Montreal
1898 November, chartered to ATL
1900 June, became Boer War transport
1903 Taken over by Canadian Pacific Line
1914 August, became British Expeditionary Forec transport
1914 October, rebuilt as dummy battleship, HMS Audacious
1916 January, bought by British Admiralty
1916 October, converted to oiltanker for Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co, renamed Crenella
1917 October, taken over by Shipping Controller
1917 Nov. 26, torpedoed off the Irish coast
1919 Returned to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co.
1920 Purchased by Runciman, London
1923 Bought by Norwegian owners, converted to a whaling depot ship and renamed Rey Alfonso
1927 Renamed Anglo Norse
1929 Renamed Polar Chief for Falkland Whaling Co.
1941 Became the Ministry of War Transport Empire Chief
1946 Renamed Polar Chief for South Georgia Co.
1952 Scrapped at Dalmuir, Scotland

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