| Name: | GØTZ, Johan Herman |
| Born: | Germany, 8 October 1888 |
| Died: | 15 August 1929 |
| Age: | 41 |
| Cemetery: | Leith (Main) |
| Grave Ref: | B5 |
| Register: | 108 |
Johan was one of three men killed in an avalanche on Monday 19 August 1929. All three were buried in an avalanche that destroyed a number of buildings, including the foundry, cookery, and carpentry shop. These buildings had survived a previous avalanche in 1920 and hence were still in the area known as ‘Jericho’, which had been left when the station moved along the coast a little (to ‘Jeddah’).
A cutting from the Sandefjords Blad newspaper dated 19/08/1929 in the Sandefjord Whaling Museum archives tells us the following:
Johan was a foundry worker, originally German. He was new to whaling, having signed on in 1928. He had a wife and child in Frederikstadt.
Picture of the funeral by Svend Johannes, courtesy of his grandson Dag Einar Winsnes.
