s/s Hermes was Finland's largest steamship at the beginning of the 20th century.

During the First World War she disappeared in the Northern Atlantic with all her crew - apparently without a trace.

Much later the explanation was found in the German War Archives. 

My grand mother's father Captain Henrik Skog was the commander of Hermes.

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(The oil on canvas is signed H. Mohrmann and dated 1905.)

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