Deer Hill - a general history

Official No. 84539: Code Letters WHQD: Code Letters JNWP.

Owners: 1882 JH Murrell & Co, West Hartlepool: 1897 Blohm & Ohlsen, Norway–renamed Lesley: 1899 B Stolt-Neilson, Haugesand, Norway–renamed Karmo: 1915 Kr Gran, Bergen, Norway: 1916 Dampskip Acties Jernfjield (Kr Gran ) Bergen, Norway: 1917 CK Gran, Bergen Norway–renamed Skaraas.

Masters: 1882 EW Crisp: 1885-86 G Jacob: 1887-91 R Jenkins: 1892-96 JC Bainbridge: 1897 M Zachariasen: 1899-1902 E Fredriksen: 1906-14 S Torgersen: 1915-17 E Johnsen: 1917 Dale.

Voyages: July 1895 Deer Hill arrived at Bergen from West Hartlepool: Lesley stranded in October 1897 & was refloated.

Bound from Barry for Fecamp with an Admiralty cargo Skaraas was torpedoed & sunk a mile SW of Black Head six miles NE of the Lizard on 23 May 1918. 19 lives lost.

Lives lost May 1918:

Ahmad Said, fireman, India

Ali Muhammad, fireman, India

Barton, Samuel, seaman, 49, Bedford

Burke, B, ship’s cook, b. Jamaica

Calver, Percy Robert Cornelius, seaman, 26, Harwich

Christiansen, Niels Kay Barford, able seaman, 20, b. Denmark

Daffalla, A, fireman, b. Aden

Halbert, Fred, 3rd engineer, 22, West Hartlepool

Hughes, A

Langridge, Arthur Ernest, steward, 40, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Leepin, C, able seaman, Riga, Latvia

Lewis, Evan Llewelyn, mess room steward, 31, b. Tonna, Neath, Glamorgan.

Massa, A, fireman, b. Aden

Moody, Stephen, 2nd engineer, 28, South Shields

Muhammad Ahmad, donkeyman, India

Neumann, Edward, able seaman, b. Reval

Richardson, Ralph, 1st engineer, 54, Hartlepool (son of William & Elizabeth Mary)

Said Qaid, fireman, India

Saleh Mukarram, fireman, India

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