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Name Official number Flag IMO
BENVENUE  148265  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1927  14/06/1927  07/1927 
Vessel type Vessel description
Cargo General  Steel Screw Steamer  
Builder Yard Yard no
Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow Scotstoun  407 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
5946 grt / 3750 nrt / 429.0 ft  53.9 ft  30.0 ft   
Engine builder David Rowan & Co., Glasgow
Engine detail
Q4cyl (24.75, 35.5, 51, 73 x 51in), 675nhp, 1 screw 

First owner First port of register Registration date
Ben Line Steamers Ltd. - W. Thomson & Co., Leith  Leith   
Other names
 
Subsequent owner and registration history
 
Vessel history
 
Remarks
 
End year Fate / Status
1941  Torpedoed 15/05/1941 
Disposal Detail
Torpedoed by U.105 in 04.27N - 18.25W, 500 miles SW of Freetown on passage Newcastle for Bombay and Karachi. 
 

 

BENVENUE
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BENVENUE
Image courtesy of :  City of Vancouver Archives - Walter Frost
 


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