Name | GULLIKSEN, Ole Martin |
Born | Norway 13 July 1893 |
Died | 17 March 1913 |
Age | 19 |
Cemetery | Godthul |
Grave Ref | 1 |
Register | 19 |
SPRI Ref | 1228/17/8;D |
The SPRI records tell us that Gulliksen died on board the factory ship Thor I which was operating in Godthul. He was struck on the head by a wooden toggle (knovel), which jumped out of the hole in the strip of blubber they were raising up onto the factory ship.
A relative of Anders Knudsen wrote and told us:
I have found some more informations about Ole Martin Gulliksen, where he was born, baptized, etc. He had 2 brothers and 1 sister in Norway, living in a place called Modum.
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Photo courtesy of the Halvorsen family/Harald Nilsen. The handwritten title says that there were two whalers’ graves there on 18 Feb 1917
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The grave site rediscovered by Dion Poncet (pictured) during the Historic Sites Survey in 2006/7. Photo courtesy of Ken Passfield and South Georgia Surveys.
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Exposed part of wooden structure at the gravesite. Possibly the cross?