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Ceiba

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NameCeiba
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage1.698 tons
Completed1911 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland 
OwnerSeaboard SS Co (Standard Fruit & SS Co), New Orleans LA 
HomeportCeiba 
Date of attack17 Mar, 1942Nationality:      Honduras
 
FateSunk by U-124 (Johann Mohr)
Position35.43N, 73.49W - Grid CA 8585
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Complement50 (44 dead and 6 survivors).
Convoy 
RouteKingston, Jamaica - New York 
CargoBananas 
History 1915 lenghtened  
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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