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Askehall - a general history

Official No. 112416: Code Letters RPFM.

Owners: 1900 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1915 Brys & Gylsen, London-renamed Taxandrier.

Masters: 1904 E Fell; 1905 Johan Albert Christian Petersen (b. 1854 Norway C.N. 010386 Dundee 1881); 1908-09 Alfred von Puttkamer (b. 1860 Angoston, South Australia C.N. 010596 London 1884); 1910 E Fell; 1913-15 EI Harris; 1917 Alexander Hodgson.

4 December 1916 escaped from an attack off Ushant by German submarine.

Taxandrier sailed from New York on 13 February 1917 bound for Bordeaux with a cargo of war materials & a crew of 29 & was not heard from again.

Lives lost February 1917;

Alfons, L, fireman/trimmer

Baxtre, T, fireman

Birch, Alfred E, chief engineer

Braat, L, fireman

Chemey, J, fireman

Glunn, J, steward

Green, WJ, 4th engineer officer, b. Australia

Hermudo, R, seaman

Hodgson, Alexander, master

Jalomen, John, seaman

Kelly, MF, mess room steward

Kenends, P, fireman

Larsen, C, seaman

Lemos, Saturnino, cook/baker

Lister, George C, 3rd engineer

Maloney, W, able seaman

McDonald, J, fireman

Mintjens, PJM, fireman/trimmer

Pedersen, D, boatswain

Rubt, A, seaman

Sacre, H, 2nd mate

Smith, Roy, fireman

Storm, ZG, mate

Tongi, I, carpenter

Tully, Edwin, 2nd engineer

Vandenbulcke, Josephus, fireman/trimmer, b. June 1882

Verlent, Charles Ferdinand, able seaman, b. January 1887

Verrydt, A, fireman

Versmall, C, able seaman

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