Canadian Pacific Ocean Service - England / Canada marine service

Postcard

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Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd TSS MISSANABIE and METAGAMA: A postcard from the TSS (Steam Ship) Missanabie
Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd TSS MISSANABIE and METAGAMA

A postcard from the TSS (Steam Ship) Missanabie

Name/Title

Canadian Pacific Ocean Service - England / Canada marine service

Entry/Object ID

2017.03.04

Description

A postcard-sized colour image of a painting depicting a two funnelled steamship, and a Sailing ship in the background.

Subject

The Canadian Pacific ship TSS Missanabie, a ship that transported passengers from Canada to England in the 1914 - 1919 time period

Research Notes

Notes

"MISSANABIE SS was a 12,469grt, defensively-armed British Passenger Liner of the Canadian Pacific Line built in 1914 by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 510. She was powered by 2 x Quadruple expansion engines, taking steam at 215 Psi from 8 single~ended boilers, twin screw, giving 16 knots. On the 9th September 1918 when on route from Liverpool for New York she was torpedoed by German submarine UB-87 when 52 miles S by E ½ E from Daunts Rock, Ireland. 45 lives lost." (Source: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11122