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
