SS Mount Temple

Mount Temple aground at West Ironbound Island
History
United Kingdom
Name	Mount Temple
Namesake	Baron Mount Temple
Owner	Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd (1901–1903) Canadian Pacific Railway (1903–1916)
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool–Montreal (1903) London–Antwerp–Montreal (summers) London–Halifax–Saint John (winters)
Builder	Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Walker[1]
Yard number	709
Launched	18 June 1901
Sponsored by	Mrs. Swan
Completed	19 September 1901
Maiden voyage	19 September 1901
In service	1901–1916
Out of service	6 December 1916
Homeport	Liverpool
Identification	UK official number 113496 code letters SPCJ call sign MLQ
Fate	Sunk by SMS Möwe, 6 December 1916
General characteristics
Type	Passenger Cargo Ship
Tonnage	7,656 GRT (1901–1903)[2] 4,989 NRT (1901–1903)[2] 8,790 GRT (1903–1914)[3] 6,661 NRT (1903–1914)[3] 9,792 GRT (1914–1916)[4] 7,556 NRT (1914–1916)[4] 11,146 DWT
Length	485 ft 0 in (147.83 m)
Beam	59 ft 0 in (17.98 m)
Depth	30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Installed power	694 nhp[2]
Propulsion	2 × Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co 3-cylinder triple expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	12.0 knots (13.8 mph; 22.2 km/h)[1]
Capacity	1,250 3rd-class and 14 cabin-class passengers
Crew	117
Armament	3-inch naval gun in WWI

Mount Temple was a passenger cargo steamship built in 1901 by Armstrong Whitworth & Company of Newcastle for Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd of Liverpool to operate as part of its Beaver Line. The ship was shortly afterwards acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was one of the first vessels to respond to the distress signals of RMS Titanic in 1912.

In 1916, while crossing the Atlantic with horses for the war effort and carrying a large number of newly collected dinosaur fossils (two of which were the hadrosaurs Corythosaurus), she was captured and scuttled complete with her cargo.