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Name: ELSA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/10/1904
Completed: 11/1904
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 151
Dimensions: 3581grt, 2304nrt, 335.0 x 48.1 x 25.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 292nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
11/1904 AC Mohr & Son, Bergen
1906 I/S D/S Elsa’s Rederi (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1912 A/S Den Norske Afrika og Australielinje (Wilh Wilhelmsen & Fearnley & Eger)
24/01/1918 Sank
Comments: 24/01/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB31, 5 miles ESE of Dartmouth
On a voyage from Newport to Oslo with a cargo of coffee, tea, rice, coal & coke


Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 26/10/1904