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Ravensdale - a general history

Completed February 1881; Official No. 82851: Code Letters VKJS: Code Letters JQFG.

Owners: 1881 Steel Young & Co, London: 1903 B. Keuerleber, Windau, Russia-renamed Johanna: 1905 J. Bell & Son, Hull-renamed Ravensdale: 1906 A.S. Cronberg & Co, Landskrona, Sweden-renamed Cedric

Masters: 1881 Allan: 1882 J Wells: 1883-86 J Morrell: 1887-88 T Sawyer: 1891-92 D Davies: 1894-95 M Brown: 1896-99 WS Luke: 1900 WH O’Connell: 1903 BJ Wilcox: 1904 J Rublawsky: 1905 H Plazing: 1906-07 A Akerman: 1908-10 P. Edvard Paulsson.

Bound from Hull for Gafle with a cargo of coal & a crew of 15, in heavy seas & with poor visibility Cedric failed to see the Grundkallen lighthouse & struck on the Argos Ground at Orskar on 16 December 1910. Nine men took to a lifeboat with six dying during the night in the extreme cold. 17 hours later the surviving three reached the mainland. 12 lives lost.

Lives lost December 1910:

Duvier, Henry

Olson, Olaf, stoker, Sweden

Weber, A

Survivors December 1910:

Bertzholtz, K, chief engineer, Sweden

Nilson, Martin, mate, Sweden

Paulsson, P Edvard, master

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