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Sweden (1869) - a general history

Official No. 63031: Code Letters LQSV: Code Letters JDLB.

Owners: 1869 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co (Christopher M Webster) West Hartlepool; 1876 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1893 Neptun Bergnings (E Liljewalch mgr) Stockholm, Sweden 1894-renamed Otto; 1900 Angfartygs AB Kalmar, Sweden; 1906 Bergqvara Angfartygs, Sweden; 1915 Nils A Osterman, Sweden; 1916 P. Ingvarsson, Sweden-renamed Ingvar; 1918 Felix Rederi, Sweden-renamed Osric; 1922 H Hansson, Sweden-renamed Kullaberg.

Masters: 1868-69 Nash; 1869-72 Green; 1873 R Beal; 1874 Flaxman; 1875 W Skinner; 1876 G Gill; 1880-94 JJ Snowdon; 1899 PGR Cederholm; 1909 CO Svensson.

Bound from the River Tyne for Wass, Finland with a cargo of coal & a crew of 14 Sweden was stranded at Ronnskar Island off Wass on 19 October 1893. No lives lost. She was condemned, sold, re-floated in 1894 & repaired.

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