SS ''Northenden'' was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886.
History
The ship was built by
Swan Hunter and launched on 1 May 1886. She arrived for service in Grimsby on 9 June 1886. She was built for the passenger a freight trade between Grimsby and Hamburg. She was the second of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being . She was named after the town where the chairman of the company,
Sir Edward Watkin, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large-scale railway engineering projects to fulfil his b ...
resided.
In 1897 she was acquired by the
Great Central Railway. She was sold in 1909 to the Progress Company of West Hartlepool. In 1910 they sold her to S Atychides & Th B Vahratoglu of Istanbul and she was renamed ''Uhuvet'' and then in 1911 renamed ''Selâmet''. In 1912 she was sold to the Cie Perso-Ottomane de Nav a Vapeur in Bandar Abbas and renamed ''Ispahan''. A new owner in 1914, Levazim Isleri Dairesi in
Constantinople
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, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
, renamed her ''Isfahan''. She was requisitioned by the government of the
Ottoman Empire
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on 3 November 1914 and sank on 15 August 1915 after being torpedoed by . The
Ottoman Navy refloated her on 17 October 1915, and she was beached. She was sold for breaking in 1919.
References
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1886 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Tyne
Ships of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Ships of the Great Central Railway
Maritime incidents in 1915
World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea