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 |