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Launched 1914: ss MISSANABIE
ss MISSANABIE
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 510

Propulsion: 2 x Quadruple expansion engines, taking steam at 215 PSI from 8 single~ended boilers, twin screw, 16 knots
Launched: Monday, 22/06/1914
Built: 1914
Ship Type: Passenger Liner
Ship's Role: Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal
Tonnage: 12469 grt
Length: 500.6 feet
Breadth: 64.2 feet
Owner History:
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
1917 Canadian Pacific Ocean Lines, London
Status: Torpedoed & Sunk - 09/09/1918

Remarks:
Named on launch by Mrs McLaren Brown, wife of the owner's European agent.
Passengers carried in two classes; 520 cabin class and 1200 third class. She had thirty two lifeboats, of which one was motorised.
Maiden voyage 7 Oct 1914, sister to the METAGAMA.
Torpedoed and sunk by UB87 on 9 Sept 1918, 52 miles off Daunt's Rock, Co Cork, Ireland, 45 lives lost.

Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Previous update by John Newth

Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron




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