120403: SS City of Benares (164096)

The SS City of Benares was a Passenger Steamship built by Barclay, Curle & Co, Whiteinch in 1935 for the Ellerman Lines Ltd, London.

During the Second World War the SS Benares was used as an Evacuee Ship to evacuate 90 children from Britain to Canada. On September 18, 1940 the ship was torpedoed and sunk with a loss of 260 lives including 77 of the 90 children.