SS Earnmoor
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS Earnmoor was a steamship built by Palmers Co. in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1887 and registered under the U.K # 92856. She was 1,320 Tons, was 280 feet (85 m) long, and had a beam of 36 feet (11 m). She was purchased by Alfred J. Earnshaw`s Earline Steamship Company out of Sparrow`s Point, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She was employed in moving iron ore and grain between the USA and Rio de Janeiro until she was sunk in a hurricane about 250 miles (400 km) north of Puerto Rico on 5 September 1889. Her captain, R. J. Grey along with 18 members of her crew were lost. A small group of six men, led by the second officer Herbert W. Stone, managed to free a lifeboat during the...
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