IRON PRINCE / AUGUST LEONHARDT / RUDOLF RETZLAFF / EGERO

BUILT IN 1883 BY SWAN HUNTER AT NEWCASTLE. SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 1,408 TONS.SHE PASSED HANDS A FEW TIMES TO GERMAN COMPANIES FINALLY BEING SOLD TO OLSEN & UGELSTAD OF OSLO, NORWAY, WHO HAD PURCHASED HER FROM SKELBRED OF KRISTIANS, SKELBREDS HAD HER RE-NAMED EGERO AND SHE RETAINED THIS NAME UNTIL HER DEMISE IN 1916 WHEN SHE WAS IN A COLLISION OF KENT AND SANK. THE ABOVE PICTURE SHOWS HER IN THE RIVER AVON COMING UP STREAM INTO BRISTOL.