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Name: BEAR CREEK
Type: Tanker
Launched: 10/04/1890
Completed: 13/05/1890
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 558
Dimensions: 2411grt, 1573nrt, 294.0 x 37.7 x 26.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 59 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97777
History:
05/1890 Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
26/12/1892 Sank
Comments: 26/12/1892: Foundered in mid N Atlantic, machinery breakdown & leaking
On a voyage from Amsterdam to Philadelphia in ballast