To
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His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir Leslie Wilson,
P.C.,G.C.I.E.,G.M.G.,D.S.O.,
Governor of Bombay in Council.
The Memorial of Georg Ludvig Rode
residing at the Seamen's Institute,
Ballard Pier, Bombay, Second Engineer
on the S.S."Tungistan" belonging to
H.M.H.Ne mazee, Medows Street, Fort
Bombay.
Most Respectfully Shewe th:
1.
That your Memorialist is a Norwegian Subject having been
born at Lyngor in Norway on 29 th March 1870, and is aged now 57
years and professes the Christian Religion.
That your Memorialist's father Ole Olsen and his mother
Charitte Olsen were both Norwegians by nationality having been
2.
born at Rode in Norway.
3.
That after several years of apprenticeship in Scotland,
your Memorialist passed an examination in marine engineering
held at Glasgow on 30th December 1899, and was awarded on the
23rd of August 1902 a "certificate of Competency as a First
Class Engineer in the Merchant Service" by the Board of Trade,
London.
4.
That for the last 25 years your Memorialist has served as
an engineer on board steamers owned by Britishers or British
Subjects and flying the British flag, in the Eastern Waters.
That during this period of 25 years your Memorialist has,
whenever he was not at sea, resided in His Majesty's dominions
viz.,Singapore, Hongkong, Calcutta, Bombay and other places,
with the intention of settling permanently in the British
Empire.
5•
That your Memorialist has for the last three years
continuously, whenever he was not on service at Sea, resided
in British India.
That your Memorialist was married on 14th February 1912
to Alette Jensen.
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