Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 04 Oct 1868, Lade, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge

Notes:

Birth:
Foreldre var skomager Lars Mathisen på Rønningsbakken og Anne Ellefsdatter.

Anna married Peder Andreas Munch Hugaas on 25 Nov 1889 in Lade, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge. Peder (son of Peder Arntzen Hugaas and Knerche Amalie Høyem, "Hugaas") was born on 16 Jan 1868 in Steinaunet skole, Strinda, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge; was christened on 01 Mar 1868 in Lade kirke, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge; died after 1910 in Bergen, Hordaland, Vestland, Norge. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Malvik, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge; Bromset søndre.
• Confirmation: 01 Oct 1905, Malvik, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge
• Residence: Bef 1910, Malvik, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge; Bromset søndre
• Emigration: 26 Jul 1919, Kristiania, Oslo, Norge
• Immigration: Aft 26 Jul 1919, New York, USA
• Residence: Bef 1926, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Notes:

Residence:
Emil Kristian Hugaas, født 1890, er registrert som tjenestegutt og Forsørges af Fattigvæsenet på gården Bromset søndre på Malvik.

Confirmation:
Emil Kristian Hugaas på Bromseth ble konfirmert til Maadeligt den 1ste oktober 1905 i Malvik. Foreldre står nevnt som akkordformann Peder Andreas Hugaas og hustru Oline Larsdatter.

Emil Kristians koppervaksinasjon var 16.juli 1896.

Residence:
Under folketellingen 1910 er Emil Kristian registrert under gården Bromset søndre som ugift tjener, som forsørges av fattigvæsenet.

Emigration:
Om Emil Kristian står det at han er ugift fyrbøter, som er innvilget permisjon i 1 år.

Bostedsadressen hans var Trondheim, og oppgitt årsak for å emigrere var bedre fortjeneste.

Han reiste med Bergensfjord med destinasjon New York.

Died:
Omkom da skipet han var på ble torpedert av en tysk ubåt utenfor Brasils kyst.

Emil Kristian var blant besetningen (med rank: Oiler) på den amerikanske oljetankeren William Boyce Thompson (tonnasje: 7.061 tonn), som ble senket av den tyske ubåten U-185 under kapteinløytnant August Maus.
Skipets posisjon når den ble truffet var 4° 05'S, 35° 58'W - Grid FC 7179., og den var en del av konvoien BT-18 på vei fra Bahia i Brasil til Trinidad. Om lasten står det water ballast.

Historien:

At 00.53 hours on 23 May 1942, the unescorted and unarmed William Boyce Thompson (Master Hjalmus V. Rasmussen), en route in ballast from New York to Curaçao, was hit on the starboard side by one torpedo from U-558 while steaming on a nonevasive course at 10.5 knots about 120 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica in 16°26N/77°51W (grid EB 3855). The torpedo hit at #4 tank and opened a hole of 20 feet on the starboard and several small holes on the port side and the weather deck. While the #3 tank and the pump room flooded slowly, the tanker escaped northwards zigzagging at full speed in a smoke screen. The eight officers, 29 crewmen and two Navy signalmen on board reported no injuries. On 24 May, she arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and returned to service after being repaired.

At 06.07 hours on 7 July 1943, U-185 attacked the convoy BT-18 about 175 miles east of Fortaleza, Brazil for a first time and reported two ships sunk and another damaged. In fact, the William Boyce Thompson and the James Robertson were sunk. The William Boyce Thompson (Master Fred Charles Vosloh) was the ship of the convoy commodore in station #41. The tanker was hit by one torpedo on the starboard side at the engine room, destroying the engine and the steering gear and killed one officer and two crewmen on watch below. As the ship began settling by the stern rapidly, twelve men panicked and abandoned ship in a lifeboat without orders. Three of them were later picked up by Jaguarão (CS 55) together with survivors from the other torpedoed ship, while the remaining men were picked up by USS Surprise (PG 63). Most of the eight officers, 32 crewmen, eleven armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in and two .50 cal guns), the convoy commodore and five naval staff members abandoned ship after seven hours in two lifeboats and a raft and were also picked up by the corvette, which landed them at Recife on 10 July. One crewman later died of wounds ashore. The wreck of William Boyce Thompson remained afloat and had to be sunk by gunfire and depth charges from the escort vessels.

The master, Fred Charles Vosloh, had only 4 months earlier lost a ship to the same U-boat and commander when Virginia Sinclair was sunk by U-185 (Maus) on 10 March 1943.

Om skjebnen til ubåten:

Sunk 24 Aug 1943 in the mid-Atlantic, in position 27.00N, 37.06W, by depth charges from 3 Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the American escort carrier USS Core. 29 dead and 22 survivors.

Kilde:
Fra en nettside med Crew list of Ships hit by U-boats.