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SS River Clyde

SS River Clyde

1905 British cargo vessel

Photo: George Drewry · Commons · Public domain · Cropped & Resized

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SS River Clyde was a 3,913 GRT British collier built by Russell & Co of Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde and completed in March 1905. In the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy and in 1915 she took part in the Gallipoli landings. After the war she was repaired and sold to Spanish owners, with whom she spent a long civilian career trading in the Mediterranean before being scrapped in 1966.

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Image: George Drewry, Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0