FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL
| Name | BENARES |
| Type | Cargo |
| Yard Number | 1 |
| Launched | 27/05/1920 |
| Completed | 09/1920 |
| Off. Number | 6361 |
| Engine builder | Richardsons, Westgarth & Co., Hartlepool |
| Engine type | T 3-cyl |
| GRT | 5762 |
| Length (feet) | 400 |
| Beam (feet) | 53 |
| First owner | A/B Svenska Ostasiatiska Komp., Gothenburg |
| History | 1934 LAPPLAND, Angf. A/B Tirfing, Gothenburg |
| 1939 PEGASUS, G.N. Louloudis, Piraeus | |
| Fate |
15/09/1941 Torpedoed and sunk North Atlantic by German submarine (U-94*); voyage
Leith-Trinidad; 29 crew got away in 2 lifeboats but one overturned and 16 men
drowned. Vessel later presumed sunk.
(*At 20.38 hours on 15/09/1941, the Pegasus, a straggler from convoy ON-14, was hit by one stern torpedo from U-94 and stopped. A Swedish ship stopped near the torpedoed vessel and rescued the survivors, when the U-boat fired a coup de grāce at 21.28 hours which broke the ship in two. Parts of the wreck remained afloat until they were shelled and sunk by a Allied warship on 17/09/1941 in 54°54N/30°32W.) |
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