Titania

Reference No:
C DPF/15/1251
Dates:
7 Feb 1898
Description:

Ship No. 88154 Name. Titania Letter & No. H1373 Owner. Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co.Ltd Skipper. Tom Gordon / A Roberts 2nd Hand. J Haughton 3rd Hand. G Duffield 4th Hand. P Swarz

Record of Death or Injury.

December 11 18897. George Kemp , cook. First & second fingers of right hand severley crushed through being caught in the capstan.

Official Log.

Four days after the injury to George Kemp, cook, we fell in with the Grimsby fishing fleet & took him onboard the Sophia. There being no medical man onboard, the skipper of her dressed Kemps fingers & he returned to our vessel.Four days later we reached the Red Cross Fleet & then took him onboard the mission ship Clulow, where he remained for medical treatment & was afterwards sent to London.

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Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Fishing Vessel Crew Agreements Yearly Returns