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- Alias:
- Year of Death:
- 1900
- Age at Death:
- 17
- Place of Death:
- Hamelin Bay
- Place of Accident (if not Place of Death):
- Barque "Katinka"
- Occupation:
- Apprentice
- Employer:
- Organisation:
- Death Cert. Details:
- SKEELS, Frank, 17 yrs., father Fred, mother Elizabeth Fitch, born Forrestgate, England 2138 - 1900
- Burial Details:
Buried Karridale Cemetery. 4 other men drowned at the same time. Augustsen, Carlsen, Hamann and Menke.
- News Extract:
- Bunbury Herald - 26 Jul 1900: HURRICANE AT HAMLIN. THREE BARQUES DRIVEN ASHORE FIVE LIVES LOST. The Postmaster-General (Mr R. A. Sholl) received the following telegram from Mr G. H. Percival (postmaster at Karridale) on Tuesday evening : — ' I regret to have to report a violent hurricane in this distrist. 'During Sunday last the barques Nor'-wester, Lovespriug, and Katiuka parted their cables, and were blown ashore in Hamelin Harbor. ' Five men were lost from the latter vessel, including the chief mate...
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