SS Chester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1884.

[2] She was designed for the passenger and cargo service between Grimsby, England, and Hamburg, Germany.

The bridge house was fitted up for the accommodation of thirty first-class passengers (including ladies’ cabin), the captain, and so on.

On 28 September 1910 she was in a collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer which resulted in her being badly damaged.

[4] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.