List of ships named City of Benares

Five 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, a three-masted sailing ship of 751 net register tons. Burnt-out at Calcutta, 28 January 1865
 * City of Benares, a sailing ship of 1,182 tons. 1881 sold and renamed Ruthin, rigged as barque. Renamed Laugen, 1900. Sank in the Baltic Sea, 10 February 1911.
 * City of Benares, a full-rigged sailing ship of 1,652 gross register tons. Wrecked at Westkapelle, Walcheren on 1 October 1911
 * SS City of Benares (1902), a 6,984-gross register ton liner of the Ellerman Line; 1914–1918 troopship, scrapped February 1933 (A Titanic survivor, Ruth Becker, sailed aboard her).
 * SS City of Benares (1936), an 11,081-gross register ton liner of the Ellerman City Line. GS U-48 (1939) torpedoed and sank her on 17 September 1940 while City of Benares was carrying 90 child evacuees. 258 people died including 81 children.