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Name: PEARL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/08/1898
Completed: 09/1898
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 76
Dimensions: 677grt, 404nrt, 185.0 x 29.2 x 11.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (16, 26 & 43 x 30ins), 103nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104220
History:
09/1898 JH Wetherall, Newcastle
1904 Lloyd Bahia Blanca; renamed UNION
by 1913 Marina Mercante Argentina, Bahia Blanca
26/01/1918 Sank
Comments: 26/01/1918: Torpedoed & sunk 80 nautical miles NE of Sept Isles
On a voyage from Cardiff to Rouen with a cargo of coal


Above photo as PEARL courtesy of Clive Ketley