Name: | BENWELL TOWER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 05/09/1891 |
Completed: | 10/1891 |
Builder: | Edwards Shipbuilding Co Ltd |
Yard: | Howdon |
Yard Number: | 57 |
Dimensions: | 3277grt, 2368nrt, 333.0 x 40.4 x 26.7ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 45ins), 268nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 99004 |
History: | |
10/1891 | F Stumore & Co, London |
1893 | C Michelsen & Co, Bergen; renamed AGGI |
1904 | Fujino Shirobei, Kobe; renamed BANRI MARU |
1910 | Oaki Goshi Kaisha, Yokohama |
1920 | Hamane Shoten KK, Kobe |
1927 | Matsuura Shizuo, Fuchu; renamed MISAKI MARU NO 5 |
17/08/1928 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 17/08/1928: Wrecked near Pinnacle Island, SW Korea at 34.50N - 125.50E |
On a voyage from Dairen to Kobe |
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