Name: | ISER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 26/09/1888 |
Completed: | 10/1888 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 135 |
Dimensions: | 2174grt, 1366nrt, 275 x 38 x 20.7ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21.5, 35.5 & 58.5 x 39ins), 212nhp |
Engines by: | Blair & Co (Ltd), Stockton-on-Tees |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 95484 |
History: | |
10/1888 | Mercantile Steam Ship Co Ltd, London |
1912 | J Constant, London |
1914 | Wilhelm Johansson, Baltischport, Russia; renamed LISL |
1915 | J Mitchell & Sons Ltd, Dundee; renamed ISER |
23/02/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/02/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC17, 14 miles NW of Belle Ile |
On a voyage from Newport to Rochefort with a cargo of coal |
Above photo as ISER courtesy of Richard Cox