Benicia (barquentine)

Barquentine Benicia
History
United States
Name:	Benicia
Builder:	Matthew Turner, Benicia, California
Launched:	1899
Fate:	Wrecked 10 October 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:	Barquentine
Tons burthen:	674 tons

French Polynesia
Name:	Benicia
Builder:	Built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked for Matthew Turner
Status:	Arrived in San Francisco, 1941
General characteristics
Class and type:	2-masted schooner

United Kingdom
Name:	Benicia
Owner:	Liverpool, England
Builder:	Whitehaven Iron Shipbuilding Co.
Launched:	Oct. 1883
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	809 tons

Benicia was a barquentine built by Matthew Turner in Benicia, California in 1899. She was known for a fast passage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Kehei, Hawaii, of 35 days.

Benicia was wrecked on Lafolle Reef off Haiti on 10 October 1920.

At least two other sailing vessels also carried the name Benicia. Gibbs reports that Turner's influence on the South Seas schooner was still evident as late as 1941, when a two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Turner's yard, arrived in San Francisco under the French flag.

An 899-ton iron ship named Benicia was launched in Oct. 1883, for Liverpool owners, by Whitehaven Iron Shipbuilding Co.

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