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Whitehall - a general history

Official No. 106968: Code Letters PVFG.

Owners: 1897 JE Guthe & Co, West Hartlepool; 1899 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1908 Caricatori Riuniti, Italy-renamed Margaritone; 1913 Emil R Retzlaff, Germany-renamed Nizza; 1914 Dampschiffs Rhedere Union Akt Ges, Germany-renamed Jaffa; 1917 Portuguese Government, Lisbon-renamed Sacavem; 1923 Cia de Nav Carregadores Acoreanos, Ponta Delgada, Portugal 1925-renamed Fayal; 1927 Andrejs Kalnins, Riga, Latvia-renamed Kurbads; 1936 Maksis Kalnins, Riga, Latvia.

Masters: 1897-98 J Perkins; 1898 Isaac Mills (b. 1850 Robin Hood’s Bay); 1901 J Perkins; 1903 R Bradley; 1905 O Berglund; 1907 JJ Petersen; 1909 R Montuori.

May 1905 Whitehall went aground on the Muger Reef, near Belize, British Honduras & it was feared she would become a total loss; 1914 Jaffa was seized at Lisbon by the Portuguese Government.

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