Benares

A four-masted iron ship built in 1877 by H. Murray & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 82,29×11,93×7,01 meters [270'0"×39'2"×34'0"] and tonnage 1721 GRT and 1646 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top- and single togallant sails.

1877 April: Launched at the shipyard of H. Murray & Co., Port Glasgow, for Watson Bros., Glasgow.
1895: Re-rigged as a barque.
1899: Sailed from Hamburg to Adelaide in 75 days.
1905 March: Sold to A/S Jernskib Benares (J.A. Henschien), Lillesand, Norway.
1910 August 18: Stranded at Cross Island, 41°E and 64°30' N, on voyage from Archangelsk to Dalgoa Bay.

Re-rigged as a four-masted barque during 1890s.

Updated 1997-04-16 by Lars Bruzelius.

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