Iran
Ship Number
185
Vessel Type
Cargo Ship
Built
Belfast
Launch Date
5 January 1886
Delivered
16 March 1886
Owner
Edward Bates & Son
Weight
3530 grt
BP Length
380 feet
Breadth
42-10 feet
No. of Screws
Single
Speed (approx)
11 knots
Propulsion
Triple expansion 51" stroke
Official No.
105385
Registered
Liverpool
Fate
Sank
 Iran

[Seen here as the Breton - P.Ramona Collection]

Purchased by Sloman of Hamburg in 1895, she was renamed Albano and started her first Hamburg - New York sailing on 19th Apr.1895. In May 1903 she was chartered to the Hamburg America Line who used her on the same service and who purchased her on 9th January 1907. Her last Hamburg - New York sailing took place in March 1911 and her first Hamburg - New Orleans voyage commenced 25th May 1911.
 
Sold to Messageries Maritimes, France the same year, she was renamed Breton.
 
On 8th August 1917 she was mined off Tunisia. Taken in tow by a French Armed Trawler but fire broke out and she sank about 2 hours later.
 
[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.408] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.4, Hamburg America Line]