Treeve, Graham and Peter4447 of Shipsnostalgia.com communally advise that "Ben Bates" was a coastal tanker, 160 feet long, 28 feet breadth, 10 knots service speed, built in 1956 for the British owners National Benzole Company Limited, and she worked out of Swansea for a few years in the 1960s carrying gas oil and some white oils.