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Immigration Records (1925-1935)

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Surname: Bulloch
Given name: Isabella
Age: 12
Sex: F
Nationality: Sco
Date of arrival: 1926/05/10 (YYYY/MM/DD)
Port of arrival: Quebec , Quebec
Ship: MONTCLARE , Canadian Pacific
Reference: RG76 - IMMIGRATION, series
Volume: 1926 volume 3
Page: 112

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Note: Due to the poor legibility of the original indexes, some
information in this database may be incorrect and/or incomplete.

Source: FINDI76 - 775122

HMS Montclare (F85) was a passenger ship built by the John Brown
and Company on Clydebank for the Canadian Pacific Steamship
Company, Montreal. It was later purchased by the Royal Navy during
World War II.
On 18 August 1922 Montclare left Liverpool, on her maiden voyage,
bound for Quebec and Montreal. Whilst heading for Greenock on 22
March 1931, she ran aground on Little Cumbrae with a number of
passengers aboard. She was later refloated and was repaired in
Liverpool
On 28 August 1939 the Montclare was requisitioned by the Admiralty
and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser being commissioned as
such in October 1939. On the 2 June 1942 she was sold to the
Admiralty and converted to a Destroyer Depot Ship. Now HMS
Montclare she was converted again, in 1944, to a Submarine Depot
Ship and based at Rothesay with the 3rd Submarine flotilla.
In October 1954 HMS Montclare was decommissioned, being replaced
as the 3rd Submarine Flotilla depot ship by HMS Adamant and laid up on
the Gare Loch and then at Portsmouth. In January 1958 she was sold
for scrap to T.W. Ward at Inverkeithing. Arriving there on 2 February,
the scrapping commenced the next day.