HMT Megantic
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| Name | HMT Megantic |
| Builder/Built | 1908 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Type | Passenger liner twin screw |
| Displacement | 14,878 tons |
| Speed | 16.5 knots |
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| History | |
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| Name | HMT Megantic |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Launched | 10 Dec 1908 |
| Completed | 3 Jun 1909 |
| In service | 17 Jun 1909 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger liner |
| Tonnage | 14,878 tons |
| Length | 550 ft |
| Beam | 67 ft |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.56 km/h) |
| Capacity | 230 x 1st, 430 x 2nd and 1,000 x 3rd class passengers |
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Originally laid down as the Albany for the Dominion Line, she was purchased on the stocks by White Star Line and launched as the Megantic. With the outbreak of war, she was called into service as a troopship in 1915, and on 6th April 1917 she came under the liner requisition scheme. She was attacked in 1917 by the German submarine, U-43, but managed to escape unharmed.
Following the conclusion of hostilities, she was returned to the White Star Line in December 1918, and after a refit in 1919 to enlarge her 1st class accommodation, Megantic returned to the Canadian service from Liverpool. She had another refit in 1924 and after 1928 operated from London and Southampton. Off-season, Megantic was often used for cruising from New York to the Caribbean and in the 1930s, for economy cruises.
Megantic made her last Atlantic crossing in May 1931 and was then laid up until 1933, when she was sold for scrapping in Osaka.