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Olympia - a general history

Official No. 84550: Code Letters WMJG.

Owners: 1882 F Herskind, West Hartlepool; 1884 Herskind & Woods, West Hartlepool; 1892 Crown SS Co of Belfast Ltd (W Gibson & Co mgrs) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1882-92 ER Care; 1892-94 P Coleman.

Olympia sailed from Matanzas on 1 February 1894 bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar & coffee & a total of 25 crew & two passengers & disappeared. She was thought to have foundered off Cape Hatteras during severe storms.


Lives lost 1894:

Chisholm, Norman, carpenteer, Glasgow

Coleman, P, master, Waterford

Cuthall, James, chief engineer

Martin, William, 3rd engineer, Belfast

O’Neill, Charles, mate, Belfast

Taylor, Alexander, 2nd engineer, Craigavad

Tweed, John, 2nd mate, Glynn (near Larne)

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