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Agenoria - a general history

Completed October 1883; Official No. 86974: Code Letters JBMQ.

Owners: 1883 M Rickinson, Son & Co, West Hartlepool: 1895 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co (JE Guthe & Co) West Hartlepool: 1899 F Childs & Co, Cardiff

Masters: 1885-86 Brackenbury: 1887-94 GH Sergent: 1896-98 LM Wie: 1899 J Merrix.

Bound from Grangemouth for Hamburg with a cargo of coal & a crew of 20 Agenoria went ashore off Heligoland in the German Bight on 28 November 1899. She was refloated but leaking & sank. One life lost.

In January 1900 the Board of Trade awarded a Silver Medal to Martin Bartz, pilot officer of Heligoland, in recognition of his services in rescuing the shipwrecked crew of Agenoria. The Board also awarded £2 each to the crew of the rescue boat: Hinrich Stoldt; Jasper Heickens; Jasper Friedrichs; Detlef Friedrichs; Henrich Friedrichs; Peter Haas; Peter Bauch; Michel Michels; Broder Kroger; Friedrich Koopman; Daniel Franz; Peter Koopman; Jacob Friedrichs; Henrich Jansen; Hinrich Kanie.

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