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Wilton - a general history

Official No. 78412: Code Letters RMDH: Code Letters JHND.

Owners: 1878 George Pyman & Co, West Hartlepool: 1895 Rederi Aktieb, Stockholm (OA Brodin) Gefle: 1938 T Carlborn, Sweden-renamed Utlangan: 1939 Rederi A/B Edda (Arnold de Champs) Stockholm-renamed Edda: 1940 German Government-renamed Axel.

Masters: 1878-83 FB Jarvis: 1884-85 WH Beach: 1887-88 FB Jarvis: 1891 W I Jackson: 1892 Pearson: 1893 H Streeting:  1894 T Storm: 1898-1905 JJ Malmberg: 1907-11 JP Andersson: 1919 EV Ingmansson.

Voyages: 4 January 1879 the crew of Wilton rescued ten men & three boys from Mushejjerah, a low rocky island in the Harnish group. Their dhow had been wrecked on a nearby reef. One man had to be left behind as the boat could not reach him but another vessel was sent to rescue him: 27 October 1882 Wilton with a cargo of coal was ashore at the Scaw, Freerickshaven: from Lulea, Sweden with a cargo of iron-ore Wilton was stranded & sank in August 1895 & refloated in 1896.

Bound from Uddevalla to Grimsby with a cargo of pulp Edda was seized by the Germans on 18 April 1940 & taken to Stavanger then to Germany as a war prize in May 1940.

Axel was bombed by aircraft & sunk in the Deutsche Werke Yard, Kiel on 27 April 1944. She was raised & broken up.

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