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Birkhall - a general history

Official No. 112423: Code Letters RWNP.

Owners: 1900 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1916 Houlder, Middleton & Co, London; 1917 Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co, Leith.

Masters: 1902 JA Petersen; 1907-09 H Jones; 1913 H Voss; 1915 LM Wil; 1918 Hugh MacKinnon.

Bound from Salonica for Alexandria with government cargo vessel Birkhall was torpedoed by German submarine (UC-23 Hans Georg Lubbe) & sank four miles SE of Cape Doro, Greece on 23 January 1918. Two lives lost.

Lives lost January 1918;

Hunter, Michael George, mate, 47, Whiteness, Shetlands

MacKinnon, Niel Hugh, master, Dunedin, New Zealand

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