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Name: BEACONSTREET
Type: Tanker
Launched: 31/05/1927
Completed: 07/1927
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 966
Dimensions: 7432grt, 4514nrt, 450.3 x 59.7 x 34.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (28, 46 & 76 x 51ins), 582nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 149865
History:
07/1927 Beacon Transport Co of Canada Ltd, London
1927 Beacon Transport Co of Canada Ltd, Montreal
1935 British Mexican Petroleum Co Ltd, London
1944 Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London
1950 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd, London; renamed ESSO DUBLIN
05/11/1953 Broken up
Comments: 05/11/1953: Broken up at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow


Photo as BEACONSTREET courtesy of Clive Ketley

Photo as ESSO DUBLIN courtesy of Malcolm Cranfield