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After a thorough inspection, she was declared a constructive total loss and her owners sold her to the Hamburg-based Gefo Gesellschaft fur Oeltransporte. Following lengthy repairs at Cologne and Hamburg, she eventually returned to service in October 1980 under the name of GEFO BALTIC. In 1998 she was again sold, this time to the Greek Taxiarchis Shipping Co 11, who renamed her TAXIARCHIS 11. She changed hands again in 2002 when another Greek concern named Thissefs Shipping Co purchased her and initially renamed her THISSEFS before adjusting her name to THISSEAS. As far as can be ascertained she is still in service – unlike SIR GERAINT who succumbed to the breakers’ torches in India in December 2005 under the name SIR G. Published by James R. Smith, RFA Historical Society - © 2011 RFA Historical Society
Mutiny on the Prestol In 1918 British Naval Forces were sent to the Baltic to keep the sea lanes open to the newly independent states of Estonia, Latvia and the Free City of Danzig enabling them to secure their freedom. Danzig had been created on 10 January 1920 in accordance with the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. To support the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships were deployed and these included the 2000 ton Belgol class tanker RFA Prestol. The Prestol had been in the Baltic since December 1918 with the Royal Navy. From her crew lists she did not appear to be a happy ship with one officer appearing before a Courts Martial charged with being absent without leave and six of the crew being logged for desertion. On 27 March 1920 Captain Frederick W Rae RFA was appointed as Master On 15 November 1920 the ship was alongside in the Port Of Danzig and Bosun George Mitchell brought thirteen members of the crew to the Master as they wished to make a complaint. The Master was not prepared to see them without the Chief Engineer being present and so Mr Charles A Smith RFA who had been the ship’s Chief Engineer since 6 June 1917 was called to the Master and the group of men aft. The thirteen men started their complaint by using the most insulting language directed at the Chief Officer Henry S Martin RFA and then threatened that if the ship was not kept alongside, that they would quit the vessel. The men also refused to return to their work. The same men, while the ship was alongside at Neufahrwasser, Danzig had been absent from their duty and had quit the ship without permission on a number of occasions. Published by James R. Smith, RFA Historical Society - © 2011 RFA Historical Society
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