HMT Corsican
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| History | |
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| Name | HMT Corsican |
| Owner | Allan Line S.S. Co. Ltd. (J & A Allan), Glasgow |
| Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 467 |
| Launched | 29 Apr 1907 |
| Completed | 1907 |
| In service | 31 Oct 1907 |
| Out of service | 21 May 1923 |
| Fate | wrecked 21 May 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / refrigerated cargo |
| Tonnage | 11, 419 tons |
| Length | 500.3 ft (152.49m) |
| Beam | 61.2 ft (18.65m) |
| Depth | 38 ft (11.58m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 16 knots (29.63m) |
| Capacity | 300 x 1st class; 400 x 2nd; and 1,500 x Steerage. |
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Remarks
Built for the Allan Line, and used on the Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick route. On 12 Aug 1912 Corsican collided with an iceberg near Belle Isle but suffered only monor damage. Two thousand British Home Children/Child Migrants were sent to Canada in just three years, between 1908 and 1911 on the steamship Corsican.
Taken over as a troop ship in August 1914, and used untill 16 Jul 1917. In August 1914 she began trooping voyages between Southampton and Le Havre. In September 1914 she was transferred to trooping to Alexandria and Bombay and various trooping duties.
In 1917 when she was passed to the management of the Canadian Pacific Line (they had acquired the Allen Line earlier that year), she resumed cross Atlantic voyages. The ownership change her name toSS Margrave. On 21 May 1923 she was wrecked, on Cape Freels Rock, Newfoundland in fog. No casualties were suffered.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Marseilles 29 March - 5 April 1916
Boarding occurred on 28 March 1916. Arrived 3 April, but disembarked 5 April 1916.
- James Barber
- Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
- Herbert Lewis Battams
- Arthur Charles Cam
- † Stanley Joseph Callow Champion
- Donald Victor Chisholm
- † Sidney Charles Clarke
- John Harold Coffen
- Aubrey Cecil Dawson
- † Frank William Dowell
- † Rudolf Eberhardt
- Frederick Fancote
- William Joseph Hayden
- Thomas Hetherington
- † Frederick James Howard
- † Arthur George Kettley
- Elmer Winfred Drake Laing MC
- Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews
- † Frederick William Wallace Moore
- † Herbert Frank O'Neill
- † Hector Louis Polain
- † Stephen Henry Robson
- † William Edgar Rowe
- † George Scrivener
- John Alexander Spilsbury
- William Stephens
- † Arthur William Symonds
- James Thomson MM
- Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier
Alexandria to Plymouth 29 May - 11 June 1916
- Frederick Fancote
- William Francis Clements
- William Ellis
- Sydney Charles Welch to France only ?