Missir: The Missir was a small steamship of 786 tons built in 1864 at Barclay Curie & Co. and operated by the Khedivial Mail Steam Ship & Graving Dock Co. The ship was 226.5 feet in length, 28 feet in beam, and 15.6 feet in draught. She had compound engines with 135 n.h.p. which provided a 9 knot cruising speed. On 29 May 1918 the ship was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-51 (Ernst Krafft) approximately 80 miles North-by-West of Alexandria. 34 lives lost but the captain survived.                                                             No Photo Available References: http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4179.html