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Bencliff - a general history

Built by William Doxford & Son. Completed May 1894: Official No. 102718: Code Letters NJVB.

Owners: 1894 George Horsley & Sons, West Hartlepool; 1899 Horsley Line Ltd., West Hartlepool; 1913 Wilhelm Hemsoth, Emden, Germany–renamed Caroline Hemsoth; 1920 Shipping Controller; 1921 Alfred Calvert Ltd., Poole; 1922 Wilhelm Hemsoth, Emden, Germany; 1926 C.F. Schutt & Co., Lubeck, Germany-renamed Holland; 1930 Zerssen & Co., Rendsburg, Germany.

Masters: 1894-95 J. Donovan; 1896-99 Arthur Edward Leganger (b. 1860 Hammerfest, Norway C.N. 15842 West Hartlepool 1890); 1909 A.C. Tinn.

In World War 1 Caroline Hemsoth was taken over by the Shipping Controller & was managed by J & J Denholm, London.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, November 3rd, 1906:
The West Hartlepool steamer Bencliff, outward bound from West Hartlepool for Marseilles, has been taken into Plymouth in distress with her machinery deranged. Her owners, the Horsley Line, also own the Serbury, which was lost off Christiansund earlier in the week. With reference the latter vessel the Salvage Association have to-day received cable with offer from a local Danish firm to salve on a 5 per cent net value recovered basis.

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