SEA WAR TRAGEDY
SINKING OF LINER CERAMIC IN NOVEMBER LAST LOSS OF MORE THAN 500 LIVES SHIP TORPEDOED IN GALE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CAPE TOWN, October 2. Details of one of the worst shipping tragedies of the Avar —the sinking without trace last November of the liner Ceramic, a vessel of 18.495 tons, bound for Cape Town from England with several hundred passengers—is for the firsttime released by the naval authorities, reports Reuter. No announcement was previously made because of the uncertainly of the fate of the passengers and creAv. It is now known that more than 500 lost their lives and some families were completely wiped out. Captain Elford apparently went down with his ship. The authorities are without official news of any survivors, though the Germans have claimed they have one in their hands. Earlier, a German version of the Ceramic’s fate stated that the ship was sunk in the North Atlantic by a torpedo during a heavy gale. She went down before the lifeboats could be launched.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 3
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171SEA WAR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 3
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