Ellerman Lines
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Ellerman Lines was a UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. It was founded in the late 19th century, and continued to ex
Ellerman Lines' four-masted sail-steamer barquentine City of Cambridge, launched in 1870
Hall Line's City of Naples, launched in 1908
Branksome Hall, launched in 1904. The photo shows it between 1906 and 1911, when it was with Glen Line and called Glenavon.
Calypso, launched in 1897. Ellerman Wilson Lines acquired her in 1920 as World War I reparations.
SS City of Benares
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SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936.
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…to the United Kingdom. Losses in the war were heavy, particularly to Germany's U-boat fleet. 41 ships were sunk by submarines including the loss of City of Benares, seven by air attacks, three by mines and one by a surface raider. In total, the Ellerman Group lost 60 ships out of its fleet of 105. As with the…
City of Benares during her sea trials
HMS Anthony rescues survivors from a lifeboat from City of Benares which had been adrift for eight days.
Ullapool, Old Telford Church: memorial to Nurse Agnes Wallace, lost in the sinking of SS City of Benares 1940. She died in the arms of Colin Ryder Richardson, in Lifeboat 2.