SS Montrose (1897)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Montrose
Owner	1897: African Steamship Co 1900: Elder, Dempster & Co 1902: Imperial Direct West Indies Mail Service Co Ltd 1903: Canadian Pacific Railway 1914: Admiralty
Operator	1897: Elder, Dempster & Co 1902: Elder, Dempster & Co
Port of registry	London
Route	1897: Avonmouth – Montreal 1903: Liverpool – Quebec – Montreal 1904: London – Antwerp – Quebec – Montreal
Builder	Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough
Yard number	441
Launched	17 June 1897
Completed	September 1897
Maiden voyage	September 1897, Middlesbrough – Quebec – Montreal
Refit	1903
Identification	UK official number 108251 code letters PTWV By 1913: w/t call sign: MLJ
Fate	Wrecked, 28 December 1914
General characteristics
Type	1897: Cargo liner 1903: Ocean liner
Tonnage	1897: 5,410 GRT, 3,457 NRT 1898: 5,431 GRT, 3,457 NRT 1901: 7,094 GRT, 5,349 NRT 1905: 6,278 GRT, 3,968 NRT 1911: 7,207 GRT, 5,402 NRT
Length	444.3 ft (135.4 m)
Beam	52.0 ft (15.8 m)
Depth	27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	632 NHP
Propulsion	1 × Triple expansion engine 1 × Screw propeller
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h)
Capacity	1897: 12 1st Class passengers 1903: 70 2nd Class, 1,800 3rd Class Refrigerated cargo: 25,063 cubic feet (710 m3)
Sensors and processing systems	By 1911: Submarine signalling
Notes	Sister ships: Montcalm, Monteagle, Montfort

SS Montrose was a British merchant steamship that was built in 1897 and wrecked in 1914. She was built as a cargo liner for Elder, Dempster & Company. In 1903 the Canadian Pacific Railway bought her and had her converted into a passenger liner.

Montrose is notable for being the ship on which Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover Ethel Le Neve fled Britain after Crippen murdered his wife in 1910. Montrose was wrecked in the early months of the First World War after she broke her moorings.