Shipwreck

SS Binnendijk

United Kingdom
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SS Binnendijk was a Holland America Line (NASM) cargo steamship. She was one of NASM's "B" class ships: the company's first cargo ships to be powered by steam turbines. Binnendijk was built in South Holland in 1921, and sunk by a mine in the English Channel in 1939.

She was the first ship that NASM lost in the Second World War. Her wreck off the coast of Dorset, England is now a wreck diving site, nicknamed "The Benny". Some sources anglicise the ship's name to Binnendyk.

However, Lloyd's Register always recorded her as Binnendijk.