SS ''Northenden'' was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grims ...

in 1886.

History

The ship was built by

Swan Hunter Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. At its apex, the company represented the combined forces of three pow ...

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 people, British Parliament of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large ...

resided. In 1897 she was acquired by the

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its Great Central Main Line, London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company ...

. 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

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, renamed her ''Isfahan''. She was requisitioned by the government of the

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on 3 November 1914 and sank on 15 August 1915 after being torpedoed by . The

Ottoman Navy The Ottoman Navy () or the Imperial Navy (), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was the naval warfare arm of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Ottomans first reached the sea in 1323 by capturing Praenetos (later called Karamürsel ...

refloated her on 17 October 1915, and she was beached. She was sold for breaking in 1919.

References

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