The s.s. 'Inchmaree' was a single screw, general cargo vessel, built at the Low Walker shipyard of Charles Mitchell & Company having been launched during April 1880 for owners Hamilton, Fraser & Company of Liverpool. She was 1,988 gross and 1,210 net register tons being 286.6 ft. long x 36.1 ft. breath x 22.4 ft. depth.

In  1889 she changed ownership to V. T. Thompson & Company also of Liverpool and was renamed s.s. 'Manningham'. She changed hands six times in her life and during 1915 she was finally sold to Handelsbol Sölvesborg Skeppsvarf of Sölvesborg, Sweden. On the 21st February 1917 she was captured, shelled and sunk by UC16 when off Quessant (Ushant) in the English Channel, whilst en-route from Penarth to St. Vincent with a cargo of coal. The crew were subsequently landed without loss of life at Île Molène off the west coast of Brittany. [102]