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