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George Pyman (1894) - a general history

Official No. 10274: Code Letters NLDH.

Owners: 1894 Pyman SS Co Ltd (G Pyman & Co) West Hartlepool: 1900 CK Hansen, Copenhagen-renamed Ulfsborg.

Masters: 1894-95 JW Clark: 1896-1900 J Parkes: 1905 N Petersen: 1909 J Mollerup: 1916 J Rasmussen.

Bound from Bilbao for Newport with a cargo of iron-ore Ulfsborg was torpedoed by German submarine (U-63 Karsten von Heydebreck) & sank in the North Sea in 46.03N/1.43E on 24 October 1917. 17 lives lost.

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