passed into the hands of Canada Steamship Lines when that fleet was established. In 1915 Strathcona was requisitioned for ocean service during the First World War. While bound from the Tyne to Marseilles, France, Strathcona was sunk by a scuttling charge from U-78 on 13 April 1917 when some 145 miles west-northwest of North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands. Lord Strathcona, a 495-ton, 160-foot steel salvage tug, was built in 1902 by J.P. Renoldson & Sons, Ltd., at South Shields, England. Owned by George T. Davie & Sons of Lauzon, Quebec,, this tug arrived on its delivery voyage on 4 May 1902. Lord Strathcona was sold in 1912 to the Quebec Salvage & Wrecking Company, Ltd., a Canadian Pacific subsidiary, and remained in service through the end of the Second World War. Ownership passed to Foundation Maritime in 1944, and Lord Strathcona was scrapped in 1947. A fourth ship, Lord Strathcona, was a 7,335-ton, 455-foot ocean steamer built in 1915 by W. Doxford & Sons Ltd. at Sunderland, England. Owned by the Dominion Line, Lord Strathcona was bound from Wabana, Newfoundland to Sydney, Nova Scotia with iron ore when the vessel was torpedoed and sunk by U-513 on 5 September 1942. Lord Strathcona's crew of 44, including Captain Charles Stewart, were rescued. Gallery See also Canadian peers and baronets Glencoe House Glencoe Lochan Golden Square Mile Notes References External links Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal fonds - Library and Archives Canada Photograph: Sir Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona in 1895. McCord Museum Photograph: Sir Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona in 1908. McCord Museum Photograph: Mausoleum in the East Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery in which Donald Alexander Smith lies 1820 births 1914 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Canadian peers High Commissioners of Canada to the United Kingdom Canadian Presbyterians Canadian philanthropists Canadian railway entrepreneurs Canadian university and college chancellors Chancellors of McGill University Deputy Lieutenants of Argyllshire Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Independent Conservative MPs in the Canadian House of Commons Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Canadian members of