SS Northenden was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886.

She was named after the town where the chairman of the company, Sir Edward Watkin, 1st Baronet resided.

In 1912 she was sold to the Cie Perso-Ottomane de Nav a Vapeur in Bandar Abbas and renamed Ispahan.

A new owner in 1914, Levazim Isleri Dairesi in Constantinople, renamed her Isfahan.

She was requisitioned by the government of the Ottoman Empire on 3 November 1914 and sank on 15 August 1915 after being torpedoed by HMS E11.