TRAGEDY OF THE SEA
LINER CERAMIC LOST WITH ALL HANDS
Recd. 8.20 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—are for the first time released by the naval authorities, reports Reuter’s correspondent. 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 lost their lives, and some families were completely wiped out. Captain Elford apparently went down with his ship.
The authorities are without o,fflcial news of any survivors, although the Germans have claimed that they have one on their hands. An 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. She went down before the lifeboats could be launched.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 234, 4 October 1943, Page 3
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