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 |