SS Infanta Isabel de Borbon

1913 postcard of Infanta Isabel de Borbon
History
Spain
Name	1912: Infanta Isabel de Borbon 1931: Uruguay
Namesake	1912: Infanta Isabel, Countess of Girgenti 1931: Uruguay
Owner	Compañía Transatlántica Española
Operator	Cía Transatlántica Española
Port of registry	Barcelona
Route	Barcelona – Buenos Aires
Builder	Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
Yard number	969
Launched	29 September 1912
Completed	15 March 1913
Maiden voyage	4 April 1913
Identification	1913: code letters HPBG by 1914: call sign EDI by 1934: call sign EAFG
Fate	Sunk by air attack, raised, scrapped
General characteristics
Type	ocean liner
Tonnage	10,348 GRT, 5,740 NRT
Length	481.9 ft (146.9 m)
Beam	61.3 ft (18.7 m)
Draught	25 ft (7.6 m)
Depth	32.7 ft (10.0 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	700 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 1 × low-pressure steam turbine 3 × screws
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity	100 1st class 82 2nd class 1,644 emigrants
Sensors and processing systems	by 1914: submarine signalling by 1926: wireless direction finding
Notes	sister ship: Reina Victoria-Eugenia

SS Infanta Isabel de Borbon was a steam ocean liner and mail ship launched in 1912 in Scotland and operated by the Compañía Transatlántica Española (CTE). She and her sister ship Reina Victoria-Eugenia represented a significant modernisation of CTE's fleet of ageing and obsolescent ships.

After the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931 Infanta Isabel de Borbon was renamed Uruguay. In 1932 she was laid up and in 1934 the Republic converted her into a prison ship.

In 1939 a Nationalist air attack on the Port of Barcelona sank Uruguay at her moorings. After the Nationalist defeat of the Second Republic her wreck was raised and scrapped.