SS Mount Temple
SS Mount Temple aground at West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS Mount Temple |
| Namesake: | William Francis Cowper (1811-1888), Baron Mount Temple |
| Owner: | Elder Dempster's Beaver Line |
| Builder: | Armstrong-Whitworth |
| Yard number: | 709 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1901 |
| Maiden voyage: | 19 September 1901 |
| Fate: | Sold to US |
 United States
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| Name: | SS Mount Temple |
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 Canadian Pacific
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| Acquired: | 1903 |
| Captured: | By SMS Möwe and scuttled 6 December 1916 |
| Status: | Scuttled |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 8,790 GRT |
| Length: | 485 ft (147.8 m) |
| Beam: | 18 m |
| Draught: | 9.3 m |
| Installed power: | 694 nhp, |
| Propulsion: | two triple-expansion engines, two screws |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 1,250 3rd-class and 14 cabin-class passengers |
| Crew: | 117 |
| Armament: | 75 mm gun during WWI |
The SS Mount Temple was a Canadian Pacific Lines cargo ship that was sunk during the First World War by the German commerce raider SMS Möwe.
Originally a Beaver Line ship, she was purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1903. She was one of the ships that responded to the distress signals of the 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.
Mount Temple was built in 1901 in Walker-on-Tyne, United Kingdom by Armstrong Whitworth & Company. The ship was launched for the Elder Dempster's Beaver Line on 18 June 1901.
The ship was named for William Francis Cowper (1811–1888), Baron Mount Temple, a British politician, Lord of the Admiralty and chairman of Armstrong-Whitworth. The ship was 8,790 gross tons and was 485 feet long. She had one funnel, four masts, twin screw propellers, and a top speed of 13 knots.
Mount Temple saw use in November 1901 as a transport ship during the Second Boer War .
In 1903, Canadian Pacific Lines purchased the ship, with 14 others, and equipped her with a wireless telegraph. In the early days of wireless telegraphy, the call sign established for the SS Mount Temple was "MLQ."
After two successful Liverpool–Quebec City runs in 1903, the ship ran aground on West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia on 2 December 1907. No lives were lost, but the ship was stranded until 1908, when she was refloated.
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