SS Metagama

SS Metagama was a passenger liner completed in 1915 for Canadian Pacific Railway to extend passenger service from Saint John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. After serving as a troopship thru World War I she resumed passenger service in November 1918 until 1931. The ship was then laid up at Southend by the Great Depression until scrap metal prices rose in response to German rearmament.[1]

Metagama traversing the Saint Lawrence River estuary in 1927
History
United Kingdom
Name: SS Metagama
Namesake: Metagama station
Builder: Barclay Curle, Glasgow
Launched: 19 November 1914
Fate: broken up in Bo'ness, 1934
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Displacement: 12,420 long tons (12,619 t)
Length: 520 ft (160 m)
Beam: 64 ft (20 m)
Propulsion: Twin screw, quadruple expansion engines
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)

Citations

  1. Emmons, Frederick (1972). The Atlantic Liners. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 41.

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