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BORN GOTHENBERG, 1877. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON
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BORN BERGEN, SWEDEN 1895. LOST AT SEA. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. LIVED AT 12 CHARLOTTE STREET, HULL ((MERCHANT SEAMAN LOG OF DECEASED SALIORS ADDRESS) Hull Daily Mail, 6th January 1919:- S.S. GITANO OVERDUE. - No News of Ellerman Wilson Liner. FEARED MINED. - GOTHENBURG. Friday. - Much anxiety is felt here regarding the Wilson Line st […]
Donkeyman
BORN STOCKHOLME 1875. SON OF ANNA & OSCAR ADOLF INGBERG. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. On October 20th, 1917, the British steamer SS Colorado, on a voyage from Hull to Alexandria with a cargo of coal & coke, was sunk by the German submarine UB-31 (Thomas Bieber), 1.5 miles east of Start Point. 4 persons were […]
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BORN SWEDEN 1899. SON OF ROBERT EFRAIM OF HOGSJO, OF SWEDEN. LISTED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR RECORDS. The GITANO was posted missing in January 1919, lost with all hands, presumed mined after passing Flamborough Head on 20/12/1918. The master was engaged chiefly in the general trades to the Baltic and had been running reg […]
Sailor
BORN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 1868. A MERCHANT NAVY SAILOR. LOST AT SEAN ON THE "ETOIAN", ON 23/03/1918, AGED 80. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. Etonian SS was a 6,515 grt defensively-armed British Merchant Ship of the Leyland Line. Built as "Chicago" 1901 and transferred from Wilson´s & Furness to the Leyland […]
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BORN SWEDEN 1885 . HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. CALYPSO SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship built in 1904 by Earle’s Sb. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for 57-1st, 44-2nd and 863-3rd class passengers. Taken up by the Admiralty i […]
