Minnedosa, 1918

Item

Identifier: imm-0214

Staff Only

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: 1918

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: 13,972 tons; 520' x 67'

Machinery and speed: Triple-screw, 16.5 knots

Masts and funnels: 2 masts, 2 funnels

Routes: Liverpool-St. John, NB; Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal

History: Laid down for Hamburg American Line, but construction halted by WWI. Completed for Canadian Pacific Line. Sold to Italy 1935, renamed PIEMONTE. Later served as the passenger liner PIEMONTE for Lloyd Triestino. Torpedoed and sunk at Messina March 1944. Ref

Legacy record identifier: Minnedosa1918