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25th February 2021, 10:20 AM
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Sappho &c : Bristol Steam Navigation Co
I have written an account of the steamships and mariners of BSNC covering 1899 to the 1970s. This also covers WW1 when the entire crew of the small trader Sappho had the bad luck to be caught in port in Hamburg the day war broke out in 1914. Most of them spent the rest of the war as POWS in the German civilian prison camp at Ruhleben as did many other Bristol men from other ships along with mariners from all over the world. The story is called "Sappho & her Sisters" as the majority of the BSNC's coastal fleet were given classical names, Juno, Apollo, etc.
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