The Canadian Pacific liner Monteagle at sea off Le Havre

Built by Palmers' at Jarrow in 1898, Monteagle was ordered for Elder, Dempster & Co. who kept her until 1903 when they transferred her to Canadian Pacific as part of the sale of their Beaver Line. Registered at 5,468 tons gross (3,485 net), she measured 445 feet in length with a 52 foot beam and had a cruising speed of 13 knots. Following her maiden voyage to New Orleans, she then began regular sailings to Canada, Montreal being her destination when the St. Lawrence was ice-free and St. John, New Brunswick, in the winter. Taken up as a troop transport during the Boer War (1900-02), she returned to her Canadian schedule which continued after her acquisition by Canadian Pacific. Transferred to Hong Kong in 1906, she stayed mostly in the Far East until 1922 when she returned briefly to the North Atlantic. Renamed Belton in 1923, she spent much of the remainder of her career laid up idle until scrapped in 1926.