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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| BENHOLM |
149690 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1928 |
30/05/1928 |
09/1928 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow |
East Yard |
383 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5026 grt / 3162 nrt / |
407.0 ft |
53.5 ft |
26.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
David Rowan & Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw. T3Cyl.(26, 44 & 73 - 48)in. 200lb. 545NHP |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Oriel Shipping Co. Ltd. - J. Edgar & Co., Liverpool. |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1937 WHITFORD POINT |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1937 Gowan Shipping Co. Ltd., London. |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1940 |
Torpedoed 19/10/1940 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 19/10/1940 from Baltimore and Halifax to London with 7,840 tons of steel, torpedoed by U.47 in 56.38N - 16.00W and sank the following day about 400 miles W. of the Hebrides. Thirty six of her crew and a gunner were lost, three survivors were landed. |
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Whitford Point
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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