SS Minnedosa

Minnedosa in 1921
History
Name	1917: Minnedosa 1935: Piemonte
Namesake	1935: Piedmont
Owner	1918: CP Railway Ocean Lines 1921: Canadian Pacific Railway 1935: Flotte Riuniti Cosulich-Lloyd Sabaudo 1936: Lloyd Triestino
Operator	1918: CP Ocean Services Ltd 1921: CP SS Lines Ltd
Port of registry	1918: Belfast 1935: Genoa
Builder	Barclay, Curle & Co & Harland & Wolff
Yard number	518, 464
Laid down	1913
Launched	17 October 1917
Completed	August 1918
Reclassified	1935: troop ship
Refit	1925: R&W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Hebburn
Identification	UK official number 142717 Code letters JVTF (until 1933) Call sign GISP (1934–35) Call sign IBLL (1935 onward)
Fate	Torpedoed and refloated 1942, bombed and scuttled 1943, raised and scrapped 1949
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	1919: 13,972 GRT, 8,521 NRT 1927: 15,186 GRT, 8,912 NRT
Length	520.0 ft (158.5 m)
Beam	67.2 ft (20.5 m)
Draught	34 ft 4 in (10.46 m)
Depth	41.8 ft (12.7 m)
Decks	4
Propulsion	3 × screws 2 × triple-expansion engines 1 × exhaust steam turbine
Speed	16+1⁄2 knots (30.6 km/h)
Capacity	550 cabin class 1,200 third class 37,460 cu ft (1,061 m3) refrigerated cargo space
Notes	sister ship: Melita

SS Minnedosa was one of a pair of transatlantic steam ocean liners that were built in the United Kingdom, launched in 1917 and operated by Canadian Pacific until 1935. Her sister ship was Melita.

In 1935 Flotte Riuniti Cosulich-Lloyd Sabaudo obtained both ships, renamed them, and converted them into troop ships for the Italian government. Minnedosa was renamed Piemonte, and in 1936 passed to Lloyd Triestino.

In 1942 a Royal Navy submarine torpedoed Piemonte, but she was beached and refloated. On 1943 she was damaged in an Allied air raid and then scuttled. In 1949 she was raised and scrapped.