| 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 |