SS Mount Temple 6 December 1916

liverpool annie · May 9, 2009

I'm trying to find out about the prisoners of war that were taken from this ship .... does anybody know how I can find a list of POW's and casualties please ?

Taken over as a troop carrier in September 1914, Mount Temple returned to commercial service the following year. On 6 December 1916, while sailing from from Montreal to Brest, she was captured and sunk by the German surface raider SMS Moewe. Four crew members were killed and 710 horses destined for war use in France were lost. The remaining 105 passengers and crew aboard were taken prisoner and interned in Germany.

Moewe survived the war and in 1920 passed to the British firm of Elders and Fyffes. She was renamed Greenbrier and sailed as a fruit transport ship. In 1933 she was sold to the German firm Midgard Deutsche Seeverkehrs and renamed Oldenburg.
Oldenburg was requisitioned at the start of World War II and served the German Navy as a transport ship. She was sunk on April 7, 1945 by Allied aircraft while moored at Vadheim, Norway.
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liverpool annie · May 9, 2009

I just found this on Wiki of all places !!

The Mount Temple departed from Montreal on 3 December 1916 for Brest, France, and then Liverpool, England, with Captain Alfred Henry Sargent at the helm. The ship's cargo was 710 horses and 6250 tons of goods, including 3000 tons of corn, and 1400 cases of eggs. Also on board were 22 wooden crates of dinosaur fossils, collected in the Badlands of Alberta by Charles H. Sternberg. These were en route to Sir Arthur Smith-Woodward, keeper of the British Museum's Natural History Department.
The ship was captured roughly half-way between Cape Race and Spain, roughly 2000 km north of the Azores islands on 6 December 1916 and sunk by the German raider SMS Moewe. Four crewmembers aboard the Mount Temple died, and on 12 December 1916, her captain and surviving crew were brought aboard the captured British ship Yarrowdale and arrived at Swinemunde, Germany on 31 December. One US citizen in the crew, Richard Zabriskie, was released on 2 March 1917. Five more US citizens, Raymond Gilbert, Harry Gilmore, John Glennan, Harold Hinkley and John McGreal were released on 8 March. The United States was neutral at the time. The others were interned as prisoners of war.
The Mount Temple was the fourth vessel that Canadian Pacific Lines lost during the First World War, and by the war's end, CP Lines would lose a total of 18 ships. Its sister ship (the SS Montezuma), was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine UC-41 on 25 July 1917.

Crewmembers Lost

The four crew members lost on 6 December were:
Seaman G. Baker, Canadian Merchant Navy.
Seaman Karim Baqir, Indian Merchant Service. He was buried at sea by the crews of the Mount Temple and Moewe with Captain A. H. Sargent presiding on 7 December.
Chief Steward William Gilbert (Born as William Oddy), Mercantile Marine, Age 38, Born at Bradford.
Seaman F. Janssen, Mercantile Marine, Drowned, Age 61, Born in Sweden.
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liverpool annie · May 9, 2009

In Memory of
Seaman G BAKER
S.S. "Mount Temple.", Canadian Merchant Navy
who died
on 06 December 1916

Remembered with honour
HALIFAX MEMORIAL

In Memory of
Seaman KARIM BAQIR
S.S. 'MOUNT TEMPLE' (Liverpool)., Indian Merchant Service
who died
on 06 December 1916

Remembered with honour
BOMBAY 1914-1918 MEMORIAL

In Memory of
Chief Steward WILLIAM ODDY
S.S. "Mount Temple" (Liverpool), Mercantile Marine
who died age 38
on 06 December 1916
(Served as GILBERT). Son of the late Joseph and Mary Oddy; husband of Sarah Annie Oddy (nee Douglas), of 154, Walton Village, Liverpool. Born at Bradford.

Remembered with honour
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

In Memory of
Seaman F JANSSEN
S.S. "Mount Temple" (Liverpool), Mercantile Marine
who died age 61
on 06 December 1916
Born in Sweden.

Remembered with honour
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

liverpool annie · May 9, 2009

Here we go ....... I posted a request too soon didn't I ??

Index of British Fisherman and Merchant Seamen taken Prisoner of War 1914-1918

http://wanborough.ukuhost.co.uk/POW/POW.asp?name=Mount Temple

And Seaman G Baker is Commemorated on Page 10 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/books/bmerchant/mer010.jpg

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