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daveausten
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 13/08/2023 : 02:05:24
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Hi, I am trying to work out from the newspaper article I have transcribed below, what ship and likely year that my Great Grandmother would have sailed from Bergen and what port she would have sailed to. I am working on this small extract from the newspaper article from 1939.
"Soon after the revolution, the mining company crashed, and Miss Boothroyd had to leave the country, taking with her a two-year-old Russian girl, Maria Terentieff, whom she had adopted when only 3 weeks old. After reaching Scandanavia, she set sail to England from Bergen in a blizzard, travelling by cattle boat!"
I have so far looked for ships leaving Bergen and they all seem to go to Newcastle. I have searched the years 1923, 1924 and 1925 and it seems all ships went to Newcastle, England and none of them seem to have any information available. I am guessing a cattle ship would be something entirely different and there may not even be any information?
The little girl in this story was my Grandmother and the whole story is quite amazing but extremely difficult to investigate. Any help anyone can throw my way would be really appreciated. |
Edited by - daveausten on 13/08/2023 02:06:48 |
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ToreL
Advanced member
Norway
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Posted - 13/08/2023 : 12:45:18
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| Is there a chance that "cattle boat" should not be understood literally, but rather to mean a passenger ship where lots og people were stored together under primitive conditions? I am asking as a non-native English speaker. I am also not an expert on maritime trade history, but doubt there would be much profit in transporting livestock from Norway to England. |
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daveausten
New on board
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/08/2023 : 14:22:17
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I think I may have found a few bits of information that could shed a bit more light on this scenario. Edith Boothroyd and Maria were in St Petersberg and at the time they needed to leave due to the Russian Revolution. They could not go via any other route as the war was ongoing in other countries. They went via Finland/Sweden/Norway. It is likely that the British Consulate arranged this. I have taken this information the story of another Briitsh family in a similar situation that is described here: https://glamarchives.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/escape-from-russia-1917-the-cartwrights-story/
The similarities are pretty striking. They went from Bergen to Aberdeen in a ship under Royal Navy escort... so i now suspect the 'cattle ship' could well have been that, used to evacuate British subjects. At the time, I think they were living in or around Petrograd, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
My thinking now is that any records of passengers would likely be with the British Consulate ... will start looking into this. |
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