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Name: BEACON LIGHT
Type: Tanker
Launched: 10/03/1890
Completed: 04/1890
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 559
Dimensions: 2763grt, 2107nrt, 311.0 x 40.2 x 28.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97773
History:
04/1890 Beacon Light Steamship Co Ltd (R Stewart & Co), Liverpool
1892 R Stewart & Co, Liverpool
1898 Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
19/02/1918 Sank
Comments: 1914: Requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler
19/02/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U91, 15 miles off the Butt of Lewis
On a voyage from Liverpool to Scapa Flow with a cargo of fuel oil