ANDEX must be AUDAX

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ANDEX must be AUDAX

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:03 pm

This stamp from Antigua & Barbuda shows us a ship sinking, and it is given that it is the ANDEX but not any ship under this name exist. By searching around my sources I found the name AUDAX and by confirming this by some members of another maritime list that the ship on the photo after the stamp was designed indeed was the AUDAX I have the following detail on this ship.
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 105 by Koninklijke Maatschappij “de Schelde”, Vlissingen (Flushing), Netherland for D/S/ A/S Haardraade (Blakstad, Holta & Co., Skien, Norway.
08 August 1903 launched as the HAARDRAADE.
Tonnage 975 gross, 397 net, dim. 64.22 (bpp) x 10.63 x 3.93m.
Powered by one 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by K.M. de Schelde, 134 nhp., speed 9 knots.
September 1903 completed.

She was built to carry timber.
April 1915 sold to A/S D/S Audax (Chr. Homann-Mürer), Frederikstad, Norway and renamed AUDAX.
10 May 1915 she got on fire when alongside an sawmill at the River Glomma, Norway and had to be scuttled to extinguish the fire.
1917 Transferred to Frederikstad Shipping Co., A/S (Chr Homann-Mürer), Frederikstad.
Temporary taken over by the The Shipping Controller (L.S. Carr & Co), London, England.
29 March 1918 she was in collision with the armed trawler HMS SWALLOW off Robin Hood’s Bay, in which the SWALLOW sunk.
On a voyage from Rouen to the Tyne in ballast to load a cargo of coal on 06 September 1918 under command of Captain Joh Gustavsen (other source gives S, Soronsen) and a crew of 19 men, she was torpedoed at 04.30 a.m. by the German U-boat UB-80 (Kapitan Lieutenant Max Vieberg. Which caused considerable damage on the starboard side and killed the 2nd Engineer and a fireman outright. (My source give three men were killed.) The vessel stayed afloat but most of the crew left the vessel except the Captain, 1st Officer, Chief Engineer and two crew. The AUDAX was taken in tow by the patrol vessel RICHARD JEWELL and headed for the Tees Bay, after a tow of about 14 miles one of the bulkheads did give away and the AUDAX began to settle by the stern, the crew were taken off at 01.25 p.m. and 10 minutes later she sank in position 54 29N 00 21W.

Antigua & Barbuda 2015 $3.15 sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10929 http://www.skipshistorie.net/Skien/SKN2 ... DRAADE.htm
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