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Lobelia - a general history

Completed November 1892;  Official No. 98533: Code Letters MVJL.

Owners: 1892 Lobelia SS Co Ltd (J. Lilly & Co) West Hartlepool: 1908 Lilly Shipping Co Ltd, West Hartlepool: 1908 Lilly Shipping Co Ltd (EH Bell ) West Hartlepool: 1910 T Pangalos, Syra-renamed Sotirios: 1915 D/S Sjalland A/S (Brix-Hansen & Co) Copenhagen-renamed Hillerod: 1916 requisitioned by The Admiralty, London: 1916 A/S Modum (Finn Friis & C O Lund), Drammen, Norway-renamed Modum

Masters: 1893-97 J Owen: 1899-1909 FH Watson.

On 4 November 1915 she was intercepted by HMS Teutonic and taken to Kirkwall as a War prize.

Bound from Sunderland for Bordeaux with a cargo of coal Modum was sunk by explosives from German submarine (UC-21 Reinhold Saltzwedel) 30 miles west of Ile de Groix on 8 December 1916. No lives lost.

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