Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1903 | Margit Groedel | Groedel Bros. S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1914 | Margit | Groedel Bros. S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1917 | Margit | Alexander & Mair |
On a voyage from Malta with a general cargo Margit was torpedoed by German submarine (U-63 Otto Schultze) & sank 80 miles SW ½ W of Cape Matapan on 4 April 1917. Master C.S. Cornish.
This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.
Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 353, 17 September 1904
Russians hold up British collier - by Associated Press.
Constantinople, Sept. 16, 1904 — The British ship Margit Groedel, with a cargo of coal from Cardiff for Sulina, reports that she was stopped by the Russian cruiser Terek on September 6th off Cape St. Vincent. The Terek fired three blank shots to bring the steamer about. Two Russian officers and two armed men boarded the Groedel and overhauled her papers. The captain of the Groedel was asked to sign a declaration that he had not been put-to any inconvenience by the delay. He at first refused, but when told that his steamer would be detained until the arrival of the Russian Admiral, the declaration was signed and the collier was allowed to proceed. One of the Russian officers informed the captain of the Groedel that there were nine other Russian cruisers in the vicinity.
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