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Remembering
Victor Elford Morris
Seaman on the SS Kolchis
Lost at Sea: November 23, 1940 (Aged 27)
Memorialised on the Tower Hill Memorial
(Merchant Seaman's Memorial) London England.
Victor Elford Morris was born on April 27, 1913 in Advocate Harbor, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the foster son of
Mitchell George Morris (1888-1980) and Cora Blanche (Lunn) Morris (1893-1959) of Advocate Harbor, NS.
Victor, went to sea in July 1931 at the age of 18 first serving on the T. K. Bentley in 1931- Port Greville, Cumberland Co., NS -
New York. Vessel Manifests list Victor as serving on the Schooner Frederick P. Bikin (1934 - Barbados, via St. John, NB to New
York); the Schooner Alvena (1937 - from St. John, New Brunswick to Gloucester, Mass., and in 1940 on the SS Kolchis.
The SS Kolchis of Greek Registry was in Convoy SC.13 en route to Belfast
and Cardiff in the UK. The Kolchis had departed Sorel, Quebec on
November 12, 1940. The convoy departed St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The ships encountered heavy seas and on November 23, 1940 the Kolchis
foundered in heavy seas and sank in the North Atlantic. All 23 crew,
including Victor Morris, were lost.
Victor Elford Morris
Tower Hill Memorial