Lake Champlain, 1900

Item

Identifier: imm-0193

Staff Only

Image of Lake Champlain (1900); mkey 108386

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1900

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Canadian Pacific Line

Builder and location: Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, Scotland

Tonnage and dimensions: 7,392 tons; 446' x 52'

Machinery and speed: Twin-screw, 13 knots

Masts and funnels: 4 masts, 1 funnel

Passengers: 1st class: 100; 2nd class: 80; 3rd class: 500

Routes: Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal

History: Vessel built for Beaver Line (Elder Dempster) but was purchased by Canadian Pacific Line in 1903. Renamed RUTHENIA 1913, to sail on Canadian Pacific Line's Triest-Quebec-Montreal route. Sold to British government 1914 and converted into dummy battleship;

Legacy record identifier: Lake Champlain1900