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Haddonhall - a general history

Completed June 1898: Official No. 106979: Code Letters QDSC.

Owners: 1898 J & E Guthe & Co, West Hartlepool; 1899 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1914 Enomoto Kenhichiro, Japan; 1915 Harumara Gomai Kaisha, Kobe-renamed Haru Maru: 1917 H Ota, Kobe: 1921 Tanaka Kisen Kogyo KK, Kobe.

Masters: 1898-99 John Albert Christian Petersen (b. 1854 Norway); 1905 WE Wilkinson; 1906 JJ Petersen; 1908-09 J Wilson.

Harumaru Gomei Kaisha, Japan; 1917 H Ota, Japan; 1920 Tanaka Kisen Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan.

In July 1914 Haddonhall was stranded near Nagasaki & passed to the underwriters. She was re-floated & sold.

Masters: 1903 Englebrecht Degn (b. 1860 C.N. 23326 Sunderland 1896).

Shields Daily News, Saturday, December 22nd, 1900:
HARTLEPOOL STEAMER DISABLED. The steamship Haddon Hall, of West Hartlepool, arrived at Queenstown to-day, with her propeller gone, and the shaft broken, in tow of steamer Springwell, of Sunderland. Both vessels suffered severely in the storm.

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