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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