The s.s. 'Marie Elsie' was of 2,606 gross and 1,661 net register tons and was launched from the yard of William Gray & Company Limited at West Hartlepool during October 1895. Her first owners were the Marie Elsie Steamship Company Limited of London. She was a single screw, steel hulled, general cargo vessel, 314.0 ft. in length x 44.0 ft. breath x 20.8 ft. depth.

In 1916, she became under the ownership of the London-American Maritime Trading Company Limited, also of the Port of London, and it was during her service as in the Australian Merchant Navy that she became a casualty of the Great War. She was torpedoed and sunk on 10th June 1917 in the Barents Sea 125 nautical miles off Cape Teriberski, Russia, by U28 with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Penarth for Archangel with a cargo of Welsh coal.

Lest we forget.

Mr. Frank Stamp, aged 19, fireman and Trimmer, of Fremantle, Western Australia, was Lost at Sea, and is remembered at the Fremantle Fallen Sailors & Soldiers Memorial, Tower Hill Memorial. [886] Also is remembered at the Tower Hill Memorial, London. [882]

Mr. Morgan Thomas, aged 32, fireman and Trimmer, Husband Of Mrs. Morgan, Of 34, Bethlehem Rd., Skewen, Neath. Born At Skewen, and is remembered at the Tower Hill Memorial. [882]

Mr. George Thomas, aged 49, fireman and trimmer, was the son of William and Mary Thomas of 2 Lombard Street, Barry, born at Lisvane, Cardiff, and is remembered at the Tower Hill Memorial. [882] - The Glamorgan GEM [887] 20th June 2017.

In the Matter of the MARIE ELSIE STEAMSHIP COMPANY Limited.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 188 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, that a Meeting of the creditors of the above named Company will be held at 7, Union-court, Old Broadstreet, in the city of London, on Friday, the 26th day of January, 1912, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon; and notice is hereby further given, that the creditors of the above named Company are required, on or before the twenty-fifth day of January, 1912, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to Messrs. Theodore Emmanuel Rodocanachi and Herbert Francis Saltmarsh, at 7, Union-court, Old Broadstreet, London, E.C., the Liquidators of the said Company; and, if so required, by notice in writing from the said Liquidators, are, by their Solicitors or personally, to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.—Dated the 8th day of January, 1912.

BAILEYS, SHAW and GILLETT, 5, Berners-street, London, W., Solicitors for the said Liquidators.

The London Gazette [100] 9th January 1912.