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Benavon (I)

Benavon (I)

9/1905 Completed by Bartram & Sons, Sunderland (Yard No.199) for the Ben Line Steamers of Leith.
3,996 grt
2,549 net
378 x 46 x 18'
Triple expansion 1,750 ihp by J. Dickinson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland.
30/9/1917 Beat off U-boat attack in the Atlantic.
2/1930 Sold to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, converted into a crab cannery and renamed "PIATIY KRABOLOV" (FIFTH CRABBERY).
1936 Renamed "ANASTAS MIKOYAN".
1959 Deleted from Lloyds Register. Assumed no longer in service.

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I have found some information on the Ben boats that ended up as crab canneries in USSR.
It comes from this site: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=78290&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180

PIATTY KRABALOV1905 Completed as BENAVON (W. Thompson & Co.) 09.05
1923 BENAVON (Ben Line Steamers, Ltd.)
1930 PIATTY KRABALOV (Krabotrest) as floating cannery
1934 ANASTAS MIKOYAN (Krabotrest)
1937 ANASTAS MIKOYAN (Krabomorzverotrest)
1958 ANASTAS MIKOYAN (DGMP)
1959 ANASTAS MIKOYAN (Krabomorzverotrest)
1970 ANASTAS MIKOYAN (Dalmoreprodukt)

Lloyd´s Register delete vessels whose existence is in doubt. I believe that these Soviet ships that worked in the Far East managed to survive well ahead of the dates that lloyd's removed them from register.

If I recall well, a Russian site mentioned that Anastas Mikoyan was removed from the fleet in 1970, that usually means that she was scrapped.
Anyway it seems that Benavon and Benlawers survived an amazing 65 years!
 

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