She was powered by three steam turbines which were supplied by Cammell Laird.

The Benares, as she was known, was 509 feet (155.14 meters) long, with a beam of 62 feet 7 inches (19.08 m) and draught of 30 feet 8 inches (9.35 m). She was launched on 5 August 1936, and completed in October 1936. Ĭity of Benares was built by Barclay Curle in Glasgow, Scotland. The sinking caused such public outrage in Britain that it led to Winston Churchill cancelling the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) plan to relocate British children abroad. The ship was torpedoed and sunk in September 1940 by the German submarine U-48 with the loss of 258 people out of a complement of 406, including the death of 77 of the evacuated children.

During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada. SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. Three Cammell Laird steam turbines (1,450 hp (1,080 kW)), single reduction geared driving a single steel screwġ7.75 knots (32.87 km/h 20.43 mph) maximum reached Wartime: Liverpool - Montreal, Quebec, and New York City Peacetime: Liverpool - Mumbai, Karachi, Colombo, Madras, and Calcutta via Suez Canal or South Africa

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