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Ship – SS Lake Champlain
Ship Details
Name: SS Lake Champlain
Owner: Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Further information at: www.british-immigrants-in-montreal.com
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Notes & Comments
Info collected by Bruce Maliphant [##48059]
| Surname | First Name | Ref ID | From | ↓ Select ↓ | To | Departure | Arrival | Transport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALIPHANT | Charles | 45007 | Canada |   | U.K. | 14th August 1900 E | 20th August 1900 | SS Lake Champlain |
| MALIPHANT | William Howard | 46018 | U.K. | | Canada | 25th April 1905 | 10th May 1905 | SS Lake Champlain |
Built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, Scotland.
Tonnage: 7,392.
Dimensions: 446′ x 52′.
Twin-screw, 13 knots.
Triple expansion engines.
Four masts and one funnel.
Passengers: 100 first, 80 second, 500 third.
Service: Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal.
Note: Vessel originally built for Beaver Line (Elder, Dempster & Co.), but was purchased by Canadian Pacific Line in 1903.
Renamed: Ruthenia (1913) Canadian Pacific Line’s Trieste-Quebec-Montreal route.
Sold to British Government in 1914; converted into dummy battleship.
Afterwards became a store ship.
Later served as a naval oiler in the Far East.
Captured by Japanese at Singapore in 1942.
Renamed: Choran Maru.
Retaken by British in 1945.
Stranded in 1946, but subsequently refloated.
Scrapped in Great Britain in 1949.
Sister ship: Lake Erie.