MacKay-Bennett (1884) |
Builder: |
John Elder & Company Govan, Scotland |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Keel Laid: |
N/A |
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Year Built: |
1884 |
Launched: |
September 18, 1884 |
Type: |
Cable Layer |
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Fate: |
Scrapped in 1965 at Ghent, Belgium. |
Owners: |
Commercial Cable Company (John W. MacKay & William G. Bennett Jr.) New York, New York |
Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
270' |
Engines: |
2 compound inverted two cylinder |
Beam: |
40' 1" |
Boilers: |
2 cylindrical single ended multibular 100 psi. |
Depth: |
21' 8" |
Shafts: |
2 |
Gross Tons: |
1,731 |
HP: |
N/A |
Displacement: |
N/A |
Speed: |
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Crew: |
N/A |
Funnels: |
1 |
Passengers: |
N/A |
Masts: |
2 |
Timeline |
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Sept. 18, 1884: |
Launched, christened by Mrs. John MacKay. |
Oct. 21, 1884: |
Trials, during the six hour trial run she made 12.4 knots. |
Apr. 1912: |
Contracted by White Star Line at $550.00 per day to recover bodies from the sinking of the Titanic. Recovered 306 bodies between Apr. 17-30, 1912. |
May 1922: |
Converted into a storage hulk at Plymouth, England. |
Sept. 22, 1965: |
Departed for the scrappers yard in Belgium. |
Notes: |
John Elder & Company was reorganized and renamed in 1885 as Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. |
As a hulk she was sunk at Plymouth, England during a German air raid. She was refloated and repaired. |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Dec. 2, 2007 |