Missanabie (ship)
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The Missanabie was a 1914 transatlantic liner of the Canadian shipping company Canadian Pacific Line , which was used for the transport of passengers and freight between Canada and Great Britain . The Missanabie was sunk by a German submarine off Cork on the southern Irish coast in 1918 .
The ship
The 12,469-ton steamer Missanabie was at the shipyard Barclay Curle in Glasgow built district Whiteinch and ran there on June 22, 1914 by a stack. It was baptized by Lady Eleanor Crerar Brown, wife of Sir George McLaren Brown, chairman of the Canadian Pacific European Agency and later a member of the International Olympic Committee . The name Missanabie was borrowed from a First Nations tribe of the same name . The Missanabie had an identical sister ship , the Metagama (12,420 GRT), which was launched on November 19, 1914 at the same shipyard and was completed in 1915.
The 152.6 meter long and 10.4 meter wide passenger and cargo ship Missanabie had two masts, two chimneys and two propellers . It was powered by two quadruple expansion steam engines that developed 1492 horsepower and allowed a top speed of 15 knots. The ship was equipped with eight single-end steam boilers . The steamer could carry 520 passengers in the cabin class and 1,200 passengers in the third class.
On October 7, 1914, ran Missanabie in Liverpool for their maiden voyage to Quebec City and Montreal from. She stayed on this route during the war, also transporting troops. For example, on February 27, 1917, the 257th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force landed in England.
Sinking
On Sunday, September 8, 1918, the Missanabie left Liverpool for a crossing to New York . On this voyage, she was part of convoy OL36 and the only ship in the convoy that had passengers and mail on board. At noon on September 9th, the steamer was torpedoed by the German submarine UB 87 (Kapitänleutnant Karl Petri) 52 nautical miles southeast of Daunt Rock near Cork . A second torpedo struck shortly afterwards . The Missanabie's engines could not be stopped and after a few minutes the ship's magazine exploded .
The Missanabie sank stern first. Because of the angle it was not possible, the lifeboats to let in Bugnähe to water. Only the aft boats could be lowered. A few minutes after the attack, the Missanabie sank almost vertically, stern first. 45 people were killed.
The Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) reports 35 dead: eight sailors, eleven stewards, stewardesses Jane Foster Johnstone and Mary Elizabeth Oliphant, six cooks, five stokers, two machinists and a cadet. Since the Department only lists members of the British Merchant Navy , i.e. crew members, it is assumed that the remaining ten people were passengers. The survivors were picked up by the McCall , a destroyer of the United States Navy . The Missanabie was the largest ship sunk by UB 87 . The wreck is about 100 meters deep at the position 51 ° 11 ' N , 7 ° 25' W .