Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1885 | Mereddio | Marshall, Dodson & Co. | |
1888 | Mereddio | D. Marshall | |
1891 | Mereddio | S.S. Mereddio Co. Ltd. | |
1902 | Mereddio | Rederi AB Sirius | |
1914 | Mereddio | Rederi AB Polaris |
Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-34 (Theodoe Schultz), in the North Sea, on December 18th, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Norrsundet, Sweden, to Boulogne with a cargo of timber. No lives were lost. Master P.R. Holm.
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.
This is probably a painting of the steamship Mereddio (which the artist appears to have mis-spelled as 'Meriddio'), found in a garage sale in Calgary, Alberta in the late 1990s, by Mr. Jean-Paul Tourigny.
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