SS Telefon was a Norwegian cargo steamship of about 1,400 GRT built by on the River Tyne in 1900.
[1][3] The Telefon was a 1403 gross register ton steel cargo ship built in 1900 by Wood, Skinner & Company Limited at Bill Quay on the River Tyne.
[6] On one such voyage, carrying coal and empty barrels from Rotterdam, she struck a reef at the entrance to Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands on 26 December 1908.
[1][6] Capt Adolfus Andresen, Norwegian owner of the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes of Punta Arenas, Chile which used Deception Island as a whale factory ship base, salved the Telefon, putting her aground at Port Foster, Deception Island, where she was eventually refloated and returned to service with the whaling fleet.
[4] The following year she was sold to the Lovart Steamship Co Ltd, Glasgow, under the management of Love, Stewart & Co, Bo'ness, who renamed her Kinneil Kinneil foundered following a collision with the German steamship Denebola on 30 October 1913, 75 miles (121 km) west of the Scaw, Denmark in the Skagerrak, while on voyage from Vilajoki, Finland to Bo'ness carrying pit props.