More than 200 years after a merchant brig loaded with Pomeranian pine foundered off Western Jutland the owner, timber merchant RT Jordeson, has received compensation – and promptly handed it back!
When the ship, the Spring of Sunderland, became stranded after an explosion she was abandoned. Local fishermen salvaged rigging, ropes, a brass compass and the ship’s bell.
A sale of the wreckage was about to start when a solicitor representing the owner, Jordeson, arrived to make a claim on his client’s behalf. However, the claim was dismissed and Mr Jordeson never got a penny for his loss.
That is until now. The bell ended up in the Danish Bell Museum which recently traced its history and set out to contact Jordeson & Co to remedy the injustice.
At a recent ceremony at the museum the company was given compensation of £72.80, based on the worth of the bell in the early 1800s. The com-pany handed back the cheque as a gift to the Danish Seaman’s Mission.
