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Magda - a general history

Completed June 1888; Official No. 92927: Code Letters KSDH.

Owners: 1888 Otto Trechmann, West Hartlepool: 1895 Trechmann Bros. West Hartlepool: 1897 Trechmann S.S. Co. Ltd. (Trechmann Bros) West Hartlepool: 1914 Admiralty as a boom defence vessel: 1919 Cia Naviera Bidasoa, Bilbao-renamed Ramon de Bikuna: 1932 Velilla & Candina Soc. Ltd. Bilbao-renamed Gobelis 1933 Antonio Candina, Bilbao.

Masters: 1888-92 Otto Thoren: 1892-1903 PA Eggert: 1904-08 HCT Hintzke: 1909 GW Heslop: 1911 W Bennett.

Crew 1888: Marshall, James Thomas, chief engineer

Voyages: Magda left Malta on 6 December 1888 in water ballast bound for Kimasi, Island of Negropont, Greece. She was stranded there on 12 December 1888. The master & chief engineer were found to be at fault for the stranding. No lives were lost.

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, December 14th, 1888:
STRANDING OF A WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAMER. Yesterday morning, the owner of the Magda, Mr. Otto Trechmann, West Hartlepool, received a telegram that this steamer was ashore at Kimassi, in the Grecian Archipelago, having gone broadside on the rocks. Assistance, according to a later telegram from Lloyd’s had been sent to her, and if the weather moderates she will probably be got off. The crew are not in danger. The Magda is 1,531 net register, was built by Messrs. W. Gray & Co., in May of this year, and engined by Messrs. Blair & Co. She was bound with general cargo from several ports in the Grecian Archipelago to the States.

 

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