s.s. 'Elpis' - Report of Survey for Repairs of Engines & Boilers for Elpis - 15th September 1879.

She was surveyed upon the Gridiron of the Penarth Ship Building and Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. A. E. Keydell.

The vessel was of 1,909 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Hartlepool having been built by William Gray & Company of Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool , during 1878.

[© Lloyd's Register Foundation : Unique Reference Code : LRF-PUN-IRON487-0347-R] [760] [20200623]

I am unsure if the following account of loss is the same vessel as above :

ELPIS Hellenic Co. of Maritime Enterprises; 1879; A. Leslie & Co.; 1,481 tons; 260x34-2x23-3; 167 n.h.p.; compound engines. The Greek steamship Elpis foundered on April 22nd, 1921, 23 miles N.W. of Acre, Palestine. [799]