SS Iberia (1873)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	SS Iberia
Operator:	Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry:	Liverpool
Builder:	John Elder & Company, Fairfield
Yard number:	161
Launched:	6 December 1873
Identification:	Official number: 69336
Fate:	Scrapped, 1903
General characteristics
Type:	Steamship
Tonnage:	4689 grt 2982 nrt
Length:	433.5 feet (132.1 m)
Beam:	45 feet (14 m)
Depth:	35.1 feet (10.7 m)

SS Iberia was a steamship built by John Elder & Company and launched in 1873 for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was operated by the Orient Line from 1881 and scrapped in May 1903 at Genoa.

Iberia took part of the New South Wales Contingent to serve in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition, arriving at the Red Sea port of Suakin on 29 March 1885.

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