The s.s. 'Lady Iveagh' was built at Richardson, Duck & Company Limited at their yard at Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees having been launched during late January 1892 for the Lady Iveagh Steamship Company of D'Olier Chambers, Dublin. She was a single screw steamer of 2,286 gross and 1,471 net register tons being 290.0 ft. in length x 38.2 ft. breath x 18.5 ft. deep. During May 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for auxiliary duties as a collier. On Christmas Eve 1915, she was wrecked on St. Quentin Point, Northern France, outbound from Penarth with a cargo of coal. [865]

The Royal Navy Loss list states that she was wrecked at entrance to St Valery en Caux, Normandy, France. There was no official investigation conducted into her loss and she was a signatory to UNESCO. [866]