SS Aegean 1914

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks will look into that and see if anything comes up that may help!
Cheers

[Mark Smith]

One of Taylor's companions who joined from the mythical Aegean gave his home address as Adelaide, Australia. The other came from nearer home, Hull. Three of them can't be making up this mysterious vessel?

[Doc Vernon]

No indeed that Ship was sure around at some time, as the Documents show.
It is a Mystery thus far how it is not even on the Lloyds Register, as all ships were Entered when Built.
I am still looking around and may , i say may come up with something in the future! ??
Cheers
Can you make out the Ships name on the first Doc. i have uploaded?? Cheers


Think i have it its Dulwich!

OSLO 2.jpg

Blairhall.jpg

[Doc Vernon]

The Plot deepens ! ??
May not be him but the Ship Dulwich it is so ????
This is very perplexing!!
Cheers

Crew List: Agreements and Official Logs for Ship Dulwich, Official Number 102801 | Royal Museums Greenwich (rmg.co.uk)

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Vernon.
With a name like that it could have been a Greek ship, I don't know if the London Greek Co had to list their ships with Lloyd's, that long ago seamen would have signed on anything for a job.
Des

[Doc Vernon]

Funny Des i was just thinking on those lines, as it seems so strange that there is no trace of the ship Aegean except for the one that was lost in 1800's ???

[Mark Smith]

That's not him on the Dulwich, different signature, he's the one third down on the Blairhall document G H Taylor.
Looking at the crew lists on the 1915crewlists site for both the Oslo and the Blairhall I've come up with -
23 Dec 1914 to 6 January 1915 Liverpool to Hull via Christiania on the SS Oslo.
9 January 1915 to ???? Hull to Glasgow, where he was discharged on 8 February, on the SS Blairhall which eventually sailed to Marsaille arriving in August without Taylor. I assume the ship didn't sail Hull-Marsaille-Glasgow in the four weeks from leaving Hull on 11 January and him being discharged at Glasgow on 8 February. Or have I got this all wrong? As I understand it the Blairhall left Hull on 11 January and arrived in Glasgow a day or so later, so why was Taylor still on the crew until 8 February when he was discharged, four weeks pay for "doing nothing"? Or was it at sea in those four weeks and I've misread the documents?
And I'm utterly lost about the SS Aegean!

[Doc Vernon]

OK Thanks Mark
Was just a thought and a wee bit puzzling to me !LOL

But still such a Mystery Ship, as Today i have also now searched the Miramar Ship Index, which i have always found in the past very good, but there is no Ship except the one that we know of in 1888 i think it was!
Very Frustrating!!
Cheers

PS I wonder if it was not a UK Ship, as suggested by Des, but even so there should be some place on the Net that would come up with something??
And there is no question as to her not being there, as the Entries show it was! Those Entries were made by either the Captain or some other official on the Record Cards!
Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

After all this searching for that Elusive Ship Mark, i am wondering if there was an error in the Entry (Human) as that was do quite often as i am told .
So the only other Ships that could fit the one you seek is the Aegaeon, Built in 1911 by Swan Hunter , had a different name as Built though!
So just a guess here and hope it may get us nearer the Ship!??
Cheers

Princess Alice 1911 (tynebuiltships.co.uk)

[Mark Smith]

This is how flimsy the straws are getting I'm clutching at - there was a Booth Line passenger/cargo vessel the SS Aidan which docked in Liverpool on 23 December 1914 the same day as G H Taylor joined the Oslo from the Aegean (Aidan?). It came from Galveston Texas, Taylor came from Texas, perhaps he sailed from there to Liverpool on the Aidan? His first ship after leaving Texas.
According to the National Archives, Kew the log of the Aidan's voyage from 6 November to 23 December survives. Anyone going to Kew?