SS City of Benares [SEP] manufacturer
SS City of Benares
SS "City of Benares" was a steam passenger ship built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. During the Second World War the "City of Benares" was used as an evacuee ship to evacuate 90 children from Britain to Canada. The ship was torpedoed in 1940 by the with heavy loss of life, including the death of 77 of the evacuated children. The sinking caused such public outrage in Britain that it led to Winston Churchill cancelling the Children's Overseas
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Fifteen minutes after the torpedo hit, the vessel had been abandoned, though there were difficulties with lowering the lifeboats on the weather side of the ship. arrived on the scene 24 hours later, and picked up 105 survivors and landed them at Greenock. During the attack on the SS "City of Benares", the was also torpedoed. "Hurricane" mistakenly counted one of the lifeboats from the SS "Marina" for one of the lifeboats from SS "City of Benares". As a result,