SS Marquette (1897)

	Marquette, probably in the Scheldt
History
United Kingdom
Name	1897: Boadicea; 1898: Marquette;
Namesake	1897: Boudica; 1898: Marquette Iron Range;
Owner	1897: Wilson & Furness; 1898: Atlantic Transport Line;
Operator	1897: Williams, Torrey & Feild; 1905: Red Star Line;
Port of registry	West Hartlepool
Route	1898: London – New York; 1901; 1905: Antwerp – Philadelphia;
Builder	A Stephen & Sons, Linthouse
Yard number	373
Launched	25 November 1897
Completed	January 1898
Maiden voyage	15 January 1898
Identification	UK official number 106972; code letters PWKQ; ; by 1913: call sign MNQ;
Fate	sunk by torpedo, 23 October 1915
General characteristics
Type	livestock and passenger ship
Tonnage	7,057 GRT, 4,536 NRT
Length	486.5 ft (148.3 m)
Beam	52.3 ft (15.9 m)
Depth	31.3 ft (9.5 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	1 × triple-expansion engine;; 770 NHP; 4,300 ihp
Propulsion	1 × screw
Sail plan	4-masted schooner
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h)
Capacity	120 × 1st class passengers; plus 800 × cattle;
Crew	peacetime: 70; wartime: 95;
Sensors &; processing systems	by 1910: submarine signalling
Notes	one of five sister ships

SS Marquette was a UK transatlantic cargo liner. She was launched in Scotland in 1897 as Boadicea, and made her maiden voyage from Glasgow to New York in 1898. Later that year she changed owners, and was renamed Marquette.

The ship was designed to carry 120 first class passengers and 800 cattle, and to cross the North Atlantic in ten days. She was built for Wilson and Furness, for use in the Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line (W&FL) joint service. However, within months of her completion, Atlantic Transport Line (ATL) bought her. She spent almost her entire career in ATL ownership.

She became a troopship in the First World War. In 1915, a German U-boat sank her by torpedo in the Aegean, killing 167 of the people aboard her. Most of the victims were members of the British Royal Artillery. Another 32 were from New Zealand, including ten women nurses.