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The SS ''Mount Temple'' was a Canadian Pacific Lines cargo ship that was sunk during the First World War by the German commerce raider SMS ''Möwe''. Originally a Beaver Line ship, she was purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1903. She was one of the ships that responded to the distress signals of the RMS ''Titanic'' in 1912. In 1916, while crossing the Atlantic with horses for the war effort and carrying a large number of newly collected dinosaur fossils, she was captured and scuttled complete with her cargo. ==Early history== ''Mount Temple'' was built in 1901 in Walker-on-Tyne, England by Armstrong Whitworth & Company. The ship was launched for the Elder Dempster's Beaver Line on 18 June 1901. The ship was named for William Francis Cowper (1811–1888), Baron Mount Temple, an English politician, Lord of the Admiralty and chairman of Armstrong-Whitworth. The ship was 8,790 gross tons and was 485 feet long. She had one funnel, four masts, twin screw propellers, and a top speed of 13 knots. The ''Mount Temple'' saw use in November 1901 as a Boer War transport ship. In 1903, Canadian Pacific Lines purchased the ship, with 14 others, and equipped her with a wireless telegraph. In the early days of wireless telegraphy, the call sign established for the SS ''Mount Temple'' was "MLQ."〔Trevent, Edward. (1911) (''The A B C of Wireless Telegraphy: A Plain Treatise on Hertzian Wave Signalling,'' p. 12. )〕 After two successful Liverpool–Quebec City runs in 1903, the ship ran aground on West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia in 1907. No lives were lost, but the ship was stranded until 1908, when it was refloated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Mount Temple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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