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- Emigrated to Canada in 1927
BT27/1174, Ships Departures, The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, TW9 4DU, United Kingdom
Ships Name Minnedosa
Official Number 142717
Steamship Line Canadian Pacific
Master’s Name JN Griffiths
Registered Tonnage 8,310
Port of Embarkation Southampton
Where Bound Saint John NB
Date 30th March 1927
Date of Departure 31st March 1927
Contract Ticket Number Name of Passengers Destination Profession Ages of Passengers
30442 Jesse Banfield Canada Farmer 39 49 Fieldside Rd, Old Bromley Road, Bromley, Kent
Lily Canada H. Wife 44
Dorothy Canada None 14
Jessie Canada None 3
Imigration Records (1925 - 1935), National archives of Canada
Surname Banfield Banfield Banfield Banfield
Given name Jesse Lily Dorothy Jessie
Age 39 44 14 3
Sex M F F F
Nationality En En En En
Date of arrival 1927/04/09 (yyyy/mm/dd)
Port of arrival Saint John, New Brunswick
Ship Minnedosa, Canadian Pacific
Reference RG76 - Immigration, series C-1-c
Volume 1927 volume 5
Page 84
Microfilm reel T-14850
Minnedosa, Canadian Pacific
Minnedosa was the sister of Melita, and the careers of these two ships paralleled one another from start to finish to an extraordinary degree. Laid down in 1913 at Barclay, Curle & Co. of Glasgow, she was intended for the Hamburg America Line. World War I intervened, however, and while on the stocks she was purchased by Canadian Pacific. After being launched as Minnedosa in 1917, she was towed to Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the installation of her engines and fitting
out as a troop carrier. She entered service with a 5 December 1918 maiden voyage from Liverpool to St. John, New Brunswick, her passengers being Canadian troops returning home.
When her trooping duties were completed, Minnedosa was placed on Canadian Pacific's regular service from Liverpool to Canada, and remained in that service until 1922. She then moved over to the line's Antwerp-Southampton-Canada route. Minnedosa was refitted and modernized in 1925 at Hawthorne, Leslie & Co. of Newcastle. She then returned to service from Antwerp to Canada. She returned to the Liverpool-Canada service in 1927 and (after 129 transatlantic roundtrips) was laid up in 1931.
The ship was sold for scrapping in Genoa in 1935, but was bought from the breakers by the Italian government, renamed Piemonte and used as a troop transport in Italy's Abyssinian campaign. In 1938, she was placed on Lloyd Triestino's Far East service.
Piemonte survived a torpedo attack near Messina in November 1942, but not an airborne Allied bombing attack, at Messina, in May 1943. She capsized and sank, half submerged in shallow water. Raised in 1949, she was then towed to Spezia for scrapping.
Sources: Bonsor's North Atlantic Seaway; Haws' Merchant Fleets; Kludas' Great Passenger Ships of the World.
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