Official Number: 113497
Laid down:
Builder: C.S. Swan & Hunter, Wallsend
Launched: 6 June 1901
Signal Letters: SPDK
Into Service: 4 August 1914
Out of service:
Fate: 1924 scrapped
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
6 June 1901 launched by C.S. Swan & Hunter, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 263 named LAKE MANITOBA for the Beaver Line service to Canada of Elder Dempster & Co, Liverpool
24 September 1901 sailed on her maiden voyage Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal with 336 passengers. Captain W H Taylor was the ship’s Master
29 October 1901 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal with 319 passengers. Captain W H Taylor was the ship’s Master
30 April 1902 at 44.10N 51.30W passenger Karl Ludwick Gedland discharged dead from heart disease
22 April 1902 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal. Captain W H Taylor was the ship’s Master
26 May 1902 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal with 989 passengers. Captain W H Taylor was the ship’s Master
1 July 1902 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal with 692 passengers. Captain W H Taylor was the ship’s Master
March 1903 owner’s acquired by Canadian Pacific Railway Co, Liverpool
31 March 1903 last Beaver Line voyage Liverpool – St John N.B.
5 May 1903 first Canadian Pacific sailing Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal
30 May 1903 at sea passenger Nellie Murch discharged dead from natural causes
1 March 1904 sailed Liverpool for Montreal
24 November 1904 at 51.15°N 30.10°W passenger Annie Jane Heenan discharged dead from natural causes
6 May 1905 Lloyds List newspaper reported –
22 October 1906 passed Tory Island when on passage from Montreal later passed Malin Head east bound on passage to Liverpool
1909 passengers now 350 x 2nd Class and 1200 x 3rd Class
31 March 1909 sailed Liverpool for St. Johns, New Brunswick
31 March 1910 sailed Liverpool for St. Johns, New Brunswick
7 August 1910 berthed at Liverpool from Montreal and Quebec, Canada
14 August 1910 berthed at Quebec with Sergeant Mitchell from New Scotland Yard and two wardresses from HM Prison, Holloway as passengers arriving to assist Inspector Dew to take Dr Crippen and Miss Ethel Leneve back to the United Kingdom so that they could strand trial for the murder of Dr Crippen’s wife Bell Elmore – the prisoners, with the two police officers and the wardresses sailed from Quebec on the RMS Megantic on 20 August 1910
26 November 1910 sailed Liverpool for St. Johns, New Brunswick
7 May 1911 berthed at Liverpool from St. Johns, New Brunswick
30 September 1911 sailed Liverpool for Quebec, Canada
28 October 1911 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
12 April 1912 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
6 June 1912 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
6 July 1912 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
31 August 1912 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
6 December 1912 berthed at Liverpool from Montreal and Quebec, Canada
19 July 1913 sailed Liverpool to St Johns, New Brunswick and Montreal, Canada
21 November 1913 sailed Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
22 May 1914 berthed at Liverpool from Quebec, Canada
19 August 1914 sailed at Liverpool to Quebec, Canada
27 December 1915 while approaching Kuwait ran aground half a mile outside the channel by No 4 buoy. Refloated four hours later and proceeded up channel to Basra.
3 January 1916 sailed Basra
7 March 1916 sailed Aden
21 May 1916 while at Port Said hostile aircraft bombed the town and the harbour
14 October 1916 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal with 24 passengers. Captain A Murray was the ship’s Master
13 October 1917 off Sydney, Cape Breton joined a convoy of 15 ships and sailed to Liverpool escorted by HMS Carnarvon
2 August 1918 sailed Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal with 8 passengers. Captain W Davidson was the ship’s Master
26 August 1918 scuttled at Montreal after being gutted by fire
September 1918 was refloated
8 October 1918 sold by the underwriters to Bishop Navigation Co Ltd, Montreal and was refitted and renamed IVER HEATH and resumed North Atlantic service the following year as a cargo-only steamer
6 March 1920 arrived Buenos Ayres – details from the New York Tribune of 10 April 1920
22 September 1920 berthed at Le Harve, France – details from the New York Tribune 23 September 1920
16 December 1920 berthed at Norfolk – details from the New York Tribune 19 December 1920
27 July 1921 at Walton Bay, Bristol in collision with the steamer Nesco. Both ships were at anchor and swung with the tide hitting each other causing minor damage. Details in the New York Tribune of 1 August 1921
28 September 1921 purchased by Canada Steamship Lines Ltd, Montreal name unchanged
11 September 1922 passed Nantucket – due Newport 13 September 1922. Details from the New York Tribune newspaper of 12 September 1922
25 July 1923 purchased by Stelp & Leighton’s Crete Shipping Co Ltd, London name unchanged
1924 scrapped at Bremen