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BLEAMOOR (1902)

Service dates: 1916-1917

Official number: 115930

Shipping lines: BOMBAY & PERSIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

30.10.1902
Launched.
11.1902
Completed as Bleamoor for Moor Line Ltd (W Runciman & Company, managers), Newcastle.
22.11.1916
Sold to Bombay & Persia Steam Navigation Company.
27.11.1917
Torpedoed and sunk by UB80 6.5km (4 miles) south-south-east of Berry Head en route from Hull to Falmouth with a cargo of coal. Eight lives were lost.


Ship technical details (PDF)