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Name: NORTHENDEN
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/05/1886
Completed: 06/1886
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 97
Dimensions: 843grt, 414nrt, 230.0 x 30.1 x 14.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 35 & 57 x 39ins), 210nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 92830
History:
12/06/1886 Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co, Grimsby
1897 Great Central Railway Co, Grimsby
1909 Progress Co (West Hartlepool) Ltd, West Hartlepool
1910 S Atychides & Th B Vahratoglu, Istanbul; renamed UHUVET
1911 Renamed SELÂMET
1912 Cie Perso-Ottomane de Nav à Vapeur, Bandar Abbas; renamed ISPAHAN
03/11/1914 Government of Turkey
1914 Levazim Isleri Dairesi, Istanbul; renamed ISFAHAN
15/08/1915 Sank
Comments: Built for the Grimsby to Hamburg service
03/11/1914: Requisitioned by Turkish Government
15/08/1915: Sank after being torpedoed by submarine HMS E-11
while discharging coal at Istanbul-Hydarpasa
17/10/1915: Refloated by Ottoman Navy salvors and beached
1919: Wreck sold for breaking up


Marine Engineer, 01/07/1886