Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1882 | Camma | Fritz Herskind | |
1884 | Camma | Herskind & Woods | |
1893 | Camma | Herskind & Co. | |
1895 | Camma | C. Klaveness |
On a voyage from Oporto to Cardiff with a cargo of pit-props Camma was sunk by explosives from German submarine (U-49Richard Hartmann) five miles NW of Segaras lighthouse, Cape Villano on 10 November 1916. No lives lost.
Official No. 86938: Code Letters WMLG: Code Letters HDJG.
Owners: 1882 Fritz Herskind, West Hartlepool; 1884 Herskind & Woods, West Hartlepool; 1893 Herskind & Co, West Hartlepool; 1895 Acties Camma (Chr. Klaveness) Christiana, Norway; 1908 Acties Camma (W Holby) Christiana, Norway.
Masters: 1882-88 Greig; 1890 Paulsen; 1891-93 James Lias (b. 1852 Devon); 1893-96 CJ Tornquist; 1899-1909 H Cornneliussen.
More detail »Fritz Herskind owned ships from the early 1870's. Herksind & Woods was formed in 1884 between Fritz and Peter Herskind and James Jabez Woods. The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent on the 20th August 1892. On 31st August 1892 the Company became known as Herskind & Co. with the main shareholders Fritz and his father Peter.
Five of Fritz's early ships were built by Matthew Pearse and two by Ropner. All of his subsequent ships were built in West Hartlepool and all appear to have been purchased new.
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