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James Groves - a general history

Official No. 78404: Code Letters RBQK: Code Letters JMNS.

Owners: 1877 Groves, Maclean & Co, West Hartlepool: 1888 William Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool: 1901 Maclean & Co, West Hartlepool: 1902 Aktieb H Uner (KOF Dalman) Sweden-renamed Helge: 1912 Angf Aktieb Asta (G Corin) Gothenburg, Sweden: 1914 Angf Aktieb Goteborg, Manchester (G Corin) Gothenburg, Sweden: 1916 Aktieb H Unar (Rob Gohle) Norrkoping, Sweden.

Masters: 1877-84 T Darley: 1886 Boyle: 1887-90 JH Sowden: 1890-93 H Johns: 1894-1901 TA Thomas: 1901-02 TH Jewell: 1902-03 FG Sandstrom: 1904-05 E A Nordstrom: 1906 FG Sandstrom: 1907-08 AL Andersson: 1909 HL Ardal: 1911-14 AG Reuterskjold: 1915 OE Lindblom: 1916-18 JA Gudmundsson.

Crew 1886:

Porritt, Jonathan, stoker

Voyages: January 1881 bound from Cardiff for Gaulle: 8 March 1887 arrived at Benisaf from Rotterdam: Bound from Hartlepool for Kiel with a cargo of coal James Groves went ashore at Kallandborg near Rufess in August 1879.

Bound from London to Brest with a cargo of cement Helge was torpedoed & sunk (UB-109) in the Bay of Saint Brieuc, North Brittany on 26 August 1918. 13 lives lost.

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