Mont Louis

1927                                  Mont Louis                                  1940 (1942)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at South Bank-on-Tees England by Smith’s Dock Co., Hull 833
Launched May 13, 1927

259’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 750 IHP

Enrolled at Montreal P.QC
252.6 x 43.4 x 17.8, 1905 GT, 1123 NT     Can 147791     to:
Mont Louis Steamship Co., Montreal QC, Hall Corporation of Canada, Mgr. (home port Montreal QC)

Entered service 1927

Transferred 1936 to Hall Corporation of Canada.

Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Torpedoed and sunk May 8, 1942 southeast of Trinidad, Atlantic Ocean.  13 of 21 lost.  Enroute from Paramaribo Dutch Guiana to Trinidad

 

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