Ceiba
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| Name | Ceiba | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.698 tons | ||
| Completed | 1911 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Seaboard SS Co (Standard Fruit & SS Co), New Orleans LA | ||
| Homeport | Ceiba | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Mar, 1942 | Nationality:  Honduras | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-124 (Johann Mohr) | ||
| Position | 35.43N, 73.49W - Grid CA 8585 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 50 (44 dead and 6 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Kingston, Jamaica - New York | ||
| Cargo | Bananas | ||
| History | 1915 lenghtened
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| Notes on loss | At 02.26 hours on 17 Mar, 1942, the unescorted Ceiba was torpedoed and sunk by U-124. Six men on a raft were picked up two days later by the USS Hambleton (DD 455). Among the dead were wives and children of some crew members. | ||
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