OCEAN MYSTERY
LOSS OF THE CERAMIC GRIM TRAGEDY OF WAR (Rec 9.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Oct. 2. Details of one of the worst shipping tragedies of the war—the sinking without trace last November of the liner Ceramic, bound for Capetown from England with several hundred passengers—have for the first time been released by the naval authorities, says Reuter’s Agency. No announcement was previously made owing to the uncertainty of the fate of the passengers and crew. It is now known that more than 500 persons lost their lives. Some families were completely wiped out. Captain Elford apparently went down with his ship. The authorities arc without official news of any survivors, although the Germans have claimed that they have one in their hands. The earlier German version of the Ceramic's fate stated that the ship was sunk in the North Atlantic by a torpedo during a heavy gale, and that she went down, before the lifeboats could be launched.
The Ceramic, which was owned by the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., was built by Messrs Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, and was launched in 1913. She had a displacement of 18,713 tons, and was a highly popular passenger ship.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25347, 4 October 1943, Page 2
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199OCEAN MYSTERY Otago Daily Times, Issue 25347, 4 October 1943, Page 2
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