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Name: BAMBURGH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/01/1895
Completed: 03/1895
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 54
Dimensions: 647grt, 335nrt, 180.4 x 29.1 x 11.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (15, 25 & 40 x 27ins), 90rhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104275
History:
03/1895 LS Carr & Co, Newcastle
by 1898 Robert Mason, Newcastle
1913 MH Bland, Gibraltar; renamed GIBEL HAMAM
14/09/1918 Sank
Comments: 03/1918: Requisitioned by British Government
14/09/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U103 off Abbotsbury, Dorset
On a voyage from Swansea to France with a cargo of coal. 21 crew lost


BAMBURGH whilst on charter to Goole Steam Shipping. Photo courtesy of Charlie Hill