CS Mackay-Bennett

CS Mackay-Bennett around 1900
History
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
Fate	Storage hulk, May 1922 Scrapped, 1965
General characteristics [1]
Type	Cable ship
Tonnage	2,000 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	270 ft (82 m) o/a 250 ft (76 m) p/p
Beam	40 ft (12 m)
Depth	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) moulded
Propulsion	2 × Compound inverted 2-cylinder engines 2 × Cylindrical single-ended multi-tubular boilers

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.