BORN HULL 03/09/1893. SON OF FANNY (CARMICHAEL) & THE LATE WILLIAM MAGEE. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WAS THE FIRST ENGINEER, ON THE STEAM SHIP, ‘MENZALEH’, AND WAS DROWNED, WHEN ATTACKED BY AN ENEMY SUBMARINE, ON 06/06/1918, AGED 25. HE IS LISTED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL.
HIS BROTHER JAMES MAGEE LIVED 67 REDBOURNE STREET. HIS OTHER BROTHER, THOMAS FREDERICK MAGEE, DIED ON 05/08/1917, AGED 30. THE BROTHERS ARE RECORDED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
Jan Lettens 06/04/2011 SS Menzaleh, built by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen in 1888 and owned at the time of her loss by Khedivial Mail SS. & Graving Dock Co. Ltd., London, was a British steamer of 1859 tons. On June 6th, 1918, Menzaleh was on a voyage from Alexandria to Bristol with a cargo of cottonseed, when she was sunk by the German submarine UB-105 (Wilhelm Marschall), 230 miles ESE from Malta. 10 persons were lost. People on board People on board SS MENZALEH123 1. ABDUL MOIN IBRAHIM , Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Indian Merchant Service, †05/06/1918, Memorial: Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial, Mumbai 2. ABDUS SALEH , Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Indian Merchant Service, †05/06/1918, Memorial: Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial, Mumbai 3. FONSEA, EVARISTO (33), Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Mercantile Marine, †06/06/1918, Born in Spain, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 4. GONZALEZ, JURENAL (31), Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Mercantile Marine, †06/06/1918, Born at Valparaiso, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 5. HUTTON (30), Third Engineer, SS Menzaleh, Mercantile Marine, †06/06/1918, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, of 7, Elgin St., Birkenhead. Born at Dumbarton, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 6. IBRAHIM DAUD , Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Indian Merchant Service, †05/06/1918, Memorial: Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial, Mumbai 7. MAGEE, GEORGE SIDNEY (25), First Engineer, SS Menzaleh, Mercantile Marine, †06/06/1918, Son of Fanny Magee (nee Carmichael), of 5, Wilberforce St., Hull, and the late William Magee, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 8. MUHAMMAD SAQI , Fireman and Trimmer, SS Menzaleh, Indian Merchant Service, †05/06/1918, Memorial: Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial, Mumbai 9. THOMAS , Sailor, SS Menzaleh, Mercantile Marine, †06/06/1918, Memorial: Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?157383
