SS Benbrack

After driving ashore a few times in December 1888, she wrecked on 23 January 1889 on Texel, the Netherlands.

[2] She arrived at among others chronologically: In December 1888 the ship was driven ashore at Savannah, Georgia, United States.

[13] After refloating, while on voyage with linnen to Bremen, she ran aground near Texel, the Netherlands on 23 January 1889.

[16] Given the high position of the ship, it was very difficult to salvage the rest of the cargo, approximately 5,000 bales of cotton.

A wooden house was built on the beach of Eierland to provide shelter for the workers and to store the cargo.

[31] On 24 April 1890 British people moved to the Netherlands and started with the break-up of the ship.

[33] Due to high costs and low returns, the wreck was offered for sale again.

[37] The break-up of the wreck was continued the next month by workers from Den Helder.

[39] In 1891 the wreck was sold to A. Dros from Texel,[40] and started selling over 100.000 kg of iron of the ship.

[48] In 1953 company W. Scholte & Co. from Diemen continued to salvage the wreck, including with the help of explosives.