SS War Toronto

SS War Toronto
Launching in 1918.[1]
History
Name: SS War Toronto
Owner: Imperial Munitions Board
Builder: Polson Iron Works Co. (Toronto Shipbuilding), Toronto
Yard number: 2
Launched: 26 October 1918
Out of service: 19 November 1919
Identification: IMO 143388
Fate: destroyed in a fire
General characteristics
Tonnage: 3,200
Displacement: 2,328 Gross Register Tons
Length: 261 feet (80 m)
Beam: 43.5 feet (13.3 m)
Draught: 19.6 feet (6.0 m)
Installed power: 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) steam engine (manufactured at Canadian Bridge Company Limited, Walkerville, Ontario)[2]
Propulsion: triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw
Speed: 11 knots

The SS War Toronto was a small freighter built in Toronto, in 1918, at the Polson Ironworks.[3] She was built for wartime service, during World War One. After the war she was employed carrying coal, in civilian service. She ran aground off Sweden in September 1919. Although she was refloated, she was subsequently destroyed in a fire, in November 1919.

The Montreal Gazette profiled the War Toronto on its first visit to Montreal, on April 30, 1919.[4] They described her as the last of 46 vessels built for the Imperial Munitions Board. She was carrying lumber to Cardiff, Wales.

She was one of 72 cargo vessels built under the authority of Canada's Imperial Munitions Board.[5] She was one of the 46 vessels with hulls built of wood. She displaced 2,500 deadweight tonnes. She was not launched until April 23, 1919.

References

  1. ↑ "War Toronto: Registry and Rig Information".
  2. ↑ a subsidiary of Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
  3. ↑ "SS War Toronto (+1919)". wrecksite.eu. 2013-05-07. On September 19th, 1919, the wooden cargo ship WAR TORONTO, on voyage from Tyne to Sweden with a cargo of coal, was wrecked off Agger, west coast of Jutland. She was refloated, but then destroyed in a fire on November 19th, 1919.
  4. ↑ "S.S. War Toronto arrived in Port: Last of 46 vessels constructed for the Imperial Munitions Board was inspected". Montreal Gazette. 1919-04-30. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  5. ↑ Douglas E. Delaney, Nikolas Gardner, eds. (2017). Turning Point 1917: The British Empire at War. UBC Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780774834025.
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