Isleworth SS

Torpedoed and sunk in 1918.

A British commercial ship with a defensive arm of 2,871grt, ISLEWORTH SS. She was carrying 4,200 tonnes of iron ore from Bilboa to Middleborough when the German submarine UC-17 attacked and sank her without notice on April 30, 1918, 3 miles southwest of Ventnor Pier on the Isle of Wight.

Sadly thirty-nine people were killed.

• www.chippenhamdivers.co.uk/lookup/sfx_3_33.htm

• https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1263