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The Moewe & Mount Temple


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Hunter & Prey

The former freighter Pungo was to become Germanys most successful surfacewarship in World War I. As the auxiliary navy cruiser, Moewe, she was fitted out

with five deck guns, 2 torpedo tubes and 500 mines. In November of 1915 she

set out to raid the North Atlantic. For the next year and a half she sunk or

captured close to 50 Allied ships, possibly making her the most successful

warship of all time.

In total, she is credited for either capturing or destroying more than 50 ships,

including the British Navy's flagship of WWI, the battleship King Edward the 7th.

In addition, she also sunk several merchant ships sailing from Canada.

In December of 1916 she caught the CPR ship, Mount Temple west of the Azores.

Aboard the small passenger liner was a shipment of food items and horsesdestined for the Western Front. And, unknown to all but a few; there was also on

board a collection of rare dinosaur fossils being shipped to the British Museum in

London. These were excavated in, what is today, Dinosaur Provincial Park in

southern Alberta. The ship was scuttled and the fossils were lost with her.


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After the war Moewe was handed over to Britain as part of Germanys war

reparations. However, in 1933 she was bought back by the German Navy.

In World War II she served as the transport ship Oldenburg - hauling fish and

supplies from Norway to Germany. She was sunk near Vadheim in the Sogne Fjord

on August 4th, 1945, by a squadron of Allied Bristol beaufighters.

She now lies on her starboard side sloping down the bottom of the fjord. Her bow

lies in 23 metres (70 ft.) while her stern is at 75 metres (225 ft.).

She was dove by the first North Americans in 2005. The team was lead by marine

archaeologist, Rob Rondeau.


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Famous In Her Own Right!The Mount Temple was launched in 1901 by the Elder Dempster Line and was

named for Baron Mount Temple, an English politician and Lord of the

Admiralty. That same year she was used as a troop transport in the Boer War.

In 1903, the Canadian Pacific Line purchased the Mount Temple and outfitted

her with a wireless telegraph. This proved especially useful nine years later

when the ship was one of the first to respond to distress calls from the Titanic.

The Mount Temple arrived at the Titanics last known position within a few

hours of the great liners sinking, but was unable to assist in rescue operations

because it was separated by an icefield.


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RareF

ossilsAboard the Mount Temple was a rare collection of dinosaur fossils collected in the

Canadian West. These included some of the best fossils ever found there. Lost were the

only known samples of a unique macrobaenid, the ancestor to modern day sea turtles.

While not having the allure of gold and silver, the fossils aboard the Mount Temple are a

valuable treasure to the world of Palaeontology.


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TheMount Temple lies in 14,000 feet of

water 700 kilometers northwest of the Azores.

Finding it, and recovering its cargo of rare

dinosaur fossils, would be one of the greatest

scientific accomplishments today!


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