SS Minnedosa

SS Minnedosa
Career
Owner: Canadian Pacific Shipping Line
Builder: Barclay Curle for Harland and Wolff
Yard number: 464
Laid down: 1913
Launched: 17 October 1917
Completed: 21 November 1918
Fate: Sold for scrap 1935
Career (Kingdom of Italy)
Name: Piemonte
Acquired: 1935
Fate: Scrapped 1949
General characteristics
Type:Ocean liner (1918–1935)
Troopship (1935–1949)
Tonnage:13,972 GT (1918–1925)
15,186 GT (1925–)
Length:520 ft (160 m)
Beam:67.2 ft (20.5 m)

SS Minnedosa was a 15,000 ton steam ocean liner the hull of which was built in Glasgow on the River Clyde for the Canadian Pacific Shipping Line by Barclay Curle, under sub-contract to Harland and Wolff, in Belfast. It was launched in Glasgow on 17 October 1917 and towed to Belfast for completion, being handed over to Canadian Pacific on 21 November 1918.[1]

She was used on the Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick run and called at all the major transatlantic ports. She carried numerous immigrants to Canada and the United States and for a period in the late 1920s was commanded by Captain Ronald Niel Stuart, VC and was entitled to fly the Blue Ensign as a result. The ship was refitted in 1925, which increased her overall tonnage.[1]

In 1935 she was sold for scrap, but was purchased by Mussolini's Italian government and refitted as a troopship named Piemonte. The ship was scuttled in Messina in August 1943, being finally raised in 1949, before being towed to La Spezia for scrapping.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dunn, Laurence (1964). Famous Liners of the Past Belfast Built. London: Adlard Coles. p. 58.

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