List of ships named City of Benares
Three ships have been named City of Benares, after the former name of Varanasi, a city on the banks of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, India.
- City of Benares (1882), a full rigged sailing ship of 1,652 gross tons. Wrecked at Westkapelle, Walcheren on 1 October 1911
- SS City of Benares (1902), a 6.984 gross ton liner of the Ellerman Line. Scrapped, February 1933.
- SS City of Benares (1936), an 11,081 gross ton liner of the Ellerman Line. Torpedoed and sunk by U-48 on 18 September 1940 while carrying child evacuees.
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