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Benalla - a general history

Official No. 81337.

Owners: 1880 Joseph Hoult & Co, Liverpool; 1881 J.C. Furtado & Co. Ponta Delgada-renamed Acoriano; 1885 Empreza Nacional de Nav a Vapor, St. Michaels, Azores; 1888 J. Wood & Co. West Hartlepool-renamed Benalla; 1889 Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Tonsberg-reanmed Tancred.

Bound from New Orleans for Bayonne Benalla with a cargo of wheat sank at Ponta Delgada, Azores after a collision when the S.S. Robina parted her anchors during a storm on 2 October 1880. She was sold by auction & refloated by J.C. Furtado.

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