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.
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.
Rockall
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Rockall is a 17.15-metre-high, uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 301 kilometres west of Soay, St Kilda, Scotland; 423 kilometres north-west of Tory Island, Ireland; and 70
SS City of Benares
…another torpedo at her. The torpedo struck the ship in the stern at 10:03 PM, causing her to sink within 31 minutes, 253 miles (407 km) west-southwest of Rockall and 630 miles (1,010 km) from the nearest inhabited land. Fifteen minutes after the torpedo hit, the captain ordered the vessel abandoned, though there…
Rockall's south and east faces, November 2008
Rockall – Nautical chart – Atlantic Sea Pilot, 1884
An illustration depicting HMS Endymion's landing party in their small boat at Rockall, with Endymion in the background
Lieutenant Commander Desmond Scott hoists the Union Flag in 1955