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Name: BENMORE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/04/1888
Completed: 06/1888
Builder: William Dobson & Co
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 20
Dimensions: 1521grt, 951nrt, 255.2 x 34.7 x 16.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 55 x 36ins), 167nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 94524
History:
06/1888 Grampian Steam Ship Co Ltd (Adam & Co), Aberdeen
1897 Adam Steam Ship Co Ltd (Adam & Co), Aberdeen
1903 D/S Jylland (V Greibe), Esbjerg; renamed ESTER
02/1905 Wrecked
Comments: 26/02/1905: Abandoned in the Bay of Biscay
On a voyage from Sfax, Tunisia to King’s Lynn with a cargo of phosphates
02/1905: Towed to Tapia Casariego, Spain where she was wrecked


Above: The rocks at Tapia Casariego where ESTER was wrecked. Photo courtesy of Manuel Pérez Iglesias