SS Montrose (1897)

Overview

Montrose

country	United Kingdom
owner	1897: African Steamship Co 1900: Elder, Dempster & Co 1902: Imperial Direct West Indies Mail Service Co Ltd 1903: Canadian Pacific Railway *1914: Admiralty
operator	1897: Elder, Dempster & Co 1902: Elder, Dempster & Co
registry	London
route	1897: Avonmouth – Montreal 1903: Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal *1904: London – Antwerp – Quebec – Montreal
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
identification	UK official number 108251 code letters PTWV * * By 1913: w/t call sign: MLJ
fate	Wrecked, 28 December 1914

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.

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.

Building

In 1897 the African Steamship Company, part of Elder, Dempster and Company, had a pair of steamships built. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Jarrow built Montcalm, launching her on 17 May 1897 and completing her that August.[1] Sir Raylton Dixon and Company in Middlesbrough

SS Montrose (1897)

Building

Elder, Dempster career

Canadian Pacific career

Arrest of Crippen and Le Neve

First World War

Loss

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