Info Request (Bergen Newcastle)
Started by daveausten · 2023-08-13
daveausten · 2023-08-13#1
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.