CS Mackay-Bennett
Halifax Cable Ship notable for its retrieval of Titanic victim's bodies. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by the American Commercial Cable Company. She is notable for being the ship that recovered the majority of the bodies after the sinking of the Titanic.
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CS Mackay-Bennett around 1900 | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Mackay-Bennett |
Namesake | John Mackay & Gordon Bennett |
Operator | Commercial Cable Company |
Port of registry | London, England |
Builder | John Elder & Co., Glasgow |
Launched | September 1884 |
In service | 1884-1922 |
Out of service | May 1922 |
Homeport | Halifax, Nova Scotia / Plymouth, England |
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General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Cable ship |
Tonnage | 2,000 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Depth | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) moulded |
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