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Mary Lohden - a general history

Official No. 86957: Code Letters HRSG: Code Letters JGQL.

Owners: 1883 Jacob Lohden & Co. West Hartlepool: 1894 John B. Lohden, West Hartlepool: 1896 Ang A/B (H. Andersson) Stromstad, Sweden: 1910 Ang A/B (T. Larson) Malmo, Sweden-renamed Mary of Malmo.

Masters: 1883-85 W Wilkinson: 1887-92 TC Tose: 1893-95 S Tose: 1898 A Stahre: 1899 O Cornelius: 1902 CHJ Falkland: 1904 O Corneliussen: 1905 M Andersson: 1907-11 NP Christiansson.

Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, Monday, 17th January 1887:
COLLISIONS IN THE TEES. During a dense fog on Saturday morning the s.s. Mary Lohden, laden with ore, from Bilbao, and coming up the River Tees, collided with the s.s. G.M.B. which was proceeding seawards with pig iron for Grangemouth. The G.M.B. was so seriously damaged that the whole of her cargo had to be discharged. — The Mary Lohden afterwards collided with the s.s. Grangemouth, which was leaving for Rotterdam with a general cargo, the latter having to put back for survey. The Mary Lohden was slightly damaged.

19 January 1896 Mary Lohden was in collision with the London sailing barge Security at St Clement’s Reach, Thames. The Security sank

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