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Name: ARBIB BROTHERS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/11/1888
Completed: 12/1888
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 136
Dimensions: 2714grt, 1758nrt, 320 x 40 x 24.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 64 x 42ins), 265nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95517
History:
12/1888 E & E Arbib, London
1893 EJ Arbib & Co, London
1896 Red Cross Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1896 Renamed BENEDICK
1912 Franco-British Steamship Co Ltd (Olivier & Co), Liverpool
1915 Edoardo Mazza, Savona; renamed PENSIERO
04/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 04/04/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC71, 40 miles off the Scillies
On a voyage from Genoa to Barry