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Name: BENDO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/05/1890
Completed: 1890
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 159
Dimensions: 3489grt, 2301nrt, 346.6 x 43.2 x 20.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 42 & 64 x 45ins), 286nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97793
History:
1890 Steamship Bendo Co Ltd (J Hoult), Liverpool
1899 Kilsyth Steamship Co Ltd (Blair & Co), Newcastle
1900 A Mancini, Genoa; renamed ARDITO
1906 Bank of Athens (C Vergottis), Syra; renamed ROKOS
1914 G Vergottis, Syra; renamed ANGKELIKI
1915 Thv B Heistein & Sons, Kristiansand; renamed ASATOR
1917 A/S Vesterhav (Thv B Heistein & Sons), Kristiansand
1919 Managers became KM Pedersen
1924 AR Cooymans & Co, Antwerp
17/02/1925 Sank
Comments: 17/02/1925: Foundered at position 49.12N – 03.47W
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Porto San Stefano with a cargo of coal
ASATOR had already been sold for breaking up