SS Mount Temple

Mount Temple was a passenger and cargo steamship launched on 18 June 1901 at the Walker yard of Armstrong Whitworth on the Tyne for Elder, Dempster and Company, which ran her on the Beaver Line between Liverpool and Canadian ports and New Orleans. When she was built she was the largest ship the Low Walker yard had produced. Canadian Pacific acquired the Beaver Line steamers in 1903 and she was refitted to carry large numbers of passengers, with wireless telegraphy installed by the Marconi Company and her tonnage reassessed at 8,790 gross register tons. Her two triple-expansion steam engines drove twin screws. She struck the rocks of West Ironbound Island on 2 December 1907 and was refloated in April 1908, and in April 1912 she was among the first vessels to respond to the distress signals of the liner Titanic. In 1916, while crossing the Atlantic with horses for the war effort and a consignment of newly collected dinosaur fossils, she was captured and scuttled with her cargo.