SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. During the Second World...
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The SS City of Benares, a British steam passenger ship, sank on 17 September 1940. The ship was en route to Montreal, Canada, then to Quebec City, and...
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Heinrich Bleichrodt (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
tried and acquitted for war crimes in connection with the sinking of the SS City of Benares, which was carrying evacuated children. He earned the nickname...
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Children of the Doomed Voyage, (2005) Janet Menzies, John Wiley & Sons (story of the tragedy of the SS City of Benares) Thomas Cook, 150 Years of Popular...
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SS City of Benares (1936), an 11,081-gross register ton liner of the Ellerman City Line. U-48 torpedoed and sank her on 17 September 1940 while City of...
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Anna Ryder Richardson (category British people of Malaysian descent)
adoptive father was a World War II evacuee who survived the sinking of the SS City of Benares by a German U-boat; he spent his career as a Lloyd's underwriter...
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Monika Mann (category German people of Jewish descent)
they married on 2 March 1939. They left for Canada in 1940 on the SS City of Benares, carrying 90 child evacuees, their ten escorts, 91 paying passengers...
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Ullapool (category Port cities and towns in Scotland)
Isle of Lewis. Old Telford Church: memorial to J H Wallace, lost in the sinking of the SS City of Benares Mill Street Old Burial Ground: grave of Lord...
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The Blitz (redirect from Bombing of London)
after the sinking of the SS City of Benares with the loss of 81 children out of 100 on board. Much civil defence preparation in the form of shelters was left...
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Rudolf Olden (category People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II)
September 18 both died in the U-boat attack on the SS City of Benares in the Atlantic. He was a German Liberal of the best sort, rather more pugnacious than the...
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image of the military hero. 7 September 1940 German bombing raid on South London; formal beginning of London Blitz. 18 September 1940 SS City of Benares bound...
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German submarine U-48 (1939) (category World War II submarines of Germany)
north of her previous areas, being south of Greenland. In September, on her eighth patrol she shocked the world by sinking SS City of Benares, one of eight...
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William Golightly (category British Army personnel of World War I)
strict. In 1940, Golightly travelled to the United States on the SS City of Benares. The ship was hit by a torpedo and sank, killing Golightly. In his...
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This is a list of World War II U-boat commanders. Only sunk merchant ships are counted in the totals; warships and damaged ships are not. Submariners suffered...
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MV Britannic (1929) (category Ocean liners of the United Kingdom)
The overseas evacuation of children was terminated after a U-boat tragically torpedoed the Ellerman Lines ship SS City of Benares on September 17, 1940...
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This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages...
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Ellerman Lines (category Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom)
loss of the SS 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...
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harbour. September 17–18 – SS City of Benares is torpedoed by German submarine U-48 in the Atlantic, with the loss of 248 of the 406 on board, including...
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Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(1877–1940). His mother died in the torpedoing and sinking of the British ocean liner SS City of Benares in September 1940, along with 257 others including 81...
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But, as she also knows, they are likely to be transported on the SS City of Benares, which was torpedoed by a German submarine. Unable to allow this to...
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St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb (category Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Barnet)
life of Michael Rennie, the Vicar's son, who died of exhaustion after rescuing several evacuee children after their ship, the SS City of Benares, had...
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escort, the SS City of Benares, was torpedoed on September 17, 1940, with the tragic loss of 258 lives, including 81 children. The Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Phyllis Digby Morton (category Writers from the London Borough of Lambeth)
which she used the pen name Anne Seymour. On 13 September 1940 the SS City of Benares set sail with 209 (including 5 women) crew, 6 convoy staff, 91 paying...
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her, the SS City of Simla, and the SS City of Benares, for use as an evacuation ship. On September 10, 1940 she set sail with a large batch of CORB children...
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Ruby Grierson (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
evacuation of British children to Canada under the commission of the National Film Board of Canada. She was on the liner SS City of Benares when it was...
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John Grierson (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
sister Ruby in 1940; she was on the SS City of Benares while it was evacuating one hundred children to Canada. The Benares was torpedoed four days after its...
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HMS Winchelsea (D46) (category V and W-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
evacuation ship SS City of Benares, were attacked by a submarine. 260 people, including 258 passengers and crew from the Benares, are killed. 17 September...
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Eoin MacNeill (Londonderry City and National University of Ireland). However, none of them took their seat in the House of Commons, instead attending...
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of merit rather than a particular level of experience. Members have the privilege of sitting within the bar of court. As members wear silk gowns of a...
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United Kingdom by-election records (category Lists of by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom)
days. James Baldwin-Webb was presumed killed as a result of enemy action when SS City of Benares was torpedoed on 17 September 1940; the writ was moved...
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