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|Ship image= SS MOUNT IDA.jpg
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|Ship name=*SS ''Arcscott'';
*SS ''Mount Ida''<ref name=LR38>{{cite web |url= https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/38/38b0615.pdf |title=Lloyd's Register, Steamships & Motorships |location=London |publisher=[[Lloyd's Register]] |year=1938 |access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref>
|Ship namesake=*either [[Mount Ida (Crete)]]
*or [[Mount Ida (Turkey)]]
|Ship owner= Atlanticos Steam Ship Co Ltd and others<ref name=LR38/>
|Ship operator= [[Counties Ship Management#Founding of Rethymnis & Kulukundis|Rethymnis & Kulukundis, London]]<ref name=LR38/>
|Ship registry= [[Piraeus, Greece]] 
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|Ship builder= [[William Hamilton and Company|William Hamilton & Co. Ltd]]<ref name=LR38/>
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|Ship launched= 4 February 1938
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|Ship identification=*Code Letters SVXH<ref name=LR38/>
*{{ICS|Sierra}}{{ICS|Victor}}{{ICS|X-ray}}{{ICS|Hotel}}
|Ship fate=Wrecked 9 October 1939 off [[Norfolk]], [[England]]
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|Ship type= [[Cargo ship]]
|Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|4202}};
*3,840 tonnage under deck;
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|Ship power= 380 [[Horsepower#Nominal horsepower|NHP]]<ref name=LR38/>
|Ship propulsion= 3-cylinder [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|triple expansion steam engine]]; single screw<ref name=LR38/>
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The '''SS ''Mount Ida''''' was a [[cargo ship]] built in 1938 by [[William Hamilton and Company|William Hamilton & Co. Ltd]] of [[Glasgow]].<ref name=LR38/> Launched in 1938 as ''Arcscott'', she was renamed ''Mount Ida'' after being bought by the Atlanticos Steam Ship Company Ltd, of [[Athens]], [[Greece]].<ref name=LR38/> She was wrecked in 1939 after being in service for only about 18 months.

==Propulsion==
''Mount Ida'' had eight corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of {{convert|143|sqft|0}} that heated two {{cvt|220|psi|lk=on}} single-ended [[boiler]]s with a combined heating surface of {{convert|5742|sqft|0}}.<ref name=LR38/> She had also an auxiliary boiler.<ref name=LR38/> The boilers fed a three-cylinder [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|triple expansion steam engine]] rated at 380 [[Horsepower#Nominal horsepower|nominal horsepower]]<ref name=LR38/> that was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow.<ref name=LR38/> ''Mount Ida''{{'}}s service speed was about {{convert|10.5|kn|lk=in}}.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

==Final voyage==
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[[File:Position of SS Mount Ida.jpg|thumb|left|Position of ''Mount Ida''{{'}}s wreck on Ower Bank]]
In the autumn of 1939 ''Mount Ida'', carrying a cargo of grain and timber, and with a crew of 29, left [[Vancouver|Vancouver, British Columbia]], [[Canada]], bound for the port of [[Leith]], [[Scotland]]. On 9 October she was in the [[North Sea]] and close to the north-east coast of [[Norfolk]], England. This is a particularly hazardous area, with many [[Bar (landform)|sand banks]].

Despite being equipped with [[direction finding]] equipment and an [[echo sounding]] device<ref name=LR38/> ''Mount Ida'' ran aground on a sandbank. At 0625 hrs the [[coastguard]] told the [[coxswain]] of the [[Cromer Lifeboat Station|Cromer]] [[Lifeboat (rescue)|lifeboat]], [[Henry Blogg]], that the ''Mount Ida'' was aground and asked that the lifeboat be sent to assist her. Since the outbreak of the Second World War a month earlier, [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution|RNLI]] lifeboats had been under the control of the naval authorities, and this was only the second rescue effort by the Cromer lifeboat under this arrangement.
 
The [[Cromer]] lifeboat ''[[Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey III|H.F. Bailey]]'' was launched and set off towards [[Haisborough Sands]], which is where Coxswain Blogg had been told the ''Mount Ida'' was aground. The lifeboat had been at sea for an hour when the coastguard informed Blogg by radio that ''Mount Ida'' was not on Haisborough Sands but was grounded {{convert|19|mi}} further north-east, on Ower Bank.

The ''H.F. Bailey'' crossed Leman Bank and reached the ''Mount Ida'' around 1230 hrs. By this time the ship's starboard [[lifeboat (shipboard)|lifeboat]] had been carried away, she was listing heavily to [[starboard]] and lying head on to the seas, and her position offered no [[Windward and leeward|lee]] for the lifeboat to come alongside. The ''H.F. Bailey'' made an attempt to throw a line to the stricken vessel but was twice struck by the heavy seas and flung back. Coxswain Blogg made another attempt to come alongside, before deciding that it was too dangerous and that he would have to wait for the sea to slacken.

By 1415 hrs conditions had improved and Blogg, using the lifeboat's powerful engines with great skill, was able to maintain a steady position alongside the ship for over an hour. During this time all 29 crewmen were brought off successfully, though one suffered crushed legs when he hesitated to descend the rope ladder and was trapped between the lifeboat and the ''Mount Ida''; he later died of his injuries in [[Cromer Hospital]].

During the rescue, the lifeboat was continually flung against the hull of the ''Mount Ida''. Because the ''H F Bailey'' was badly damaged, Cromer's no 2 lifeboat, ''Harriot Dixon'', was called out to bring the rescued men ashore. The ''Harriot Dixon'', too, was damaged as it was launched into heavy seas, but the rescue effort was successful.

The ''Mount Ida'' was never salvaged and slowly sank into the sands of Ower Bank. Her position was {{coord|53|10|44|N|1|55|46|E}}.

{{location map|North Sea|width=304
|lat= 53.18
|long= 1.93
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|caption= Position of ''Mount Ida''{{'}}s wreck in the North Sea
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==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book |last=Jolly |first=Cyril |year=1981 |title=The Loss of the English Trader |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Lutterworth Press|Acorn Editions]] |isbn=0-906554-06-3 }}
*{{cite book |last=Jolly |first=Cyril |year=2002 |title=Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen |location=Cromer |publisher=Poppyland Publishing |isbn=0-946148-59-7 }}
*{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Nicholas |last2=Russell |first2=Paul |year=2004 |title=Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004 |location=Stroud |publisher=[[The History Press|Tempus Publishing]] |isbn=0-7524-3197-8 }}
*{{cite book |last=Tikus |first=Ayer |year=2004 |title=The Ship-wrecks off North East Norfolk |publisher=Ayer Tikus Publications }}

==External links==
*[http://www.cromerlifeboats.org.uk/07/index.php The Cromer Lifeboat]
*[http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/east/stations/CromerNorfolk/ Cromer Lifeboat Station]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090712123629/http://freespace.virgin.net/david.cragie/cromershed.html The Old Cromer Lifeboat Shed]
*[http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/index.cfm/event/getVessel/vref/1446 H F Bailey Lifeboat]
*[http://www.cromerlifeboats.org.uk/Gallery/Imagegal/thumbnails.php?album=31 Lifeboat Museum Gallery]

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