Kenneth Liversidge

Shaw Savill & Albion Co; 1913; Harland & Wolff; 18.713 tons; 655x69.4x43.8; 7.750 ihp; 15 knots; triple-expansion engines & L.P. turbine. The Ceramic, Capt. H.C. Elford, with 378 passengers and a crew of 278 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-515, Capt. Lt. W. Henke, West of Azores on the night of December 6th, 1942. Rescue ships at St. Michael´s were unable to put to sea because of the heavy weather. Only one man survived, Sapper A. E. Munday of the Royal Engineers, who was picked up by a German submarine the following day after the rescue boat he was in, capsized due to the heavy seas. Mr. Sapper was interned at the German POW camp at Marlag-Milag-Nord and the British government only found out about the sinking when the POW wrote home to his family. Some months later, the U-515 was sunk by US destroyers, which captured the commander and 43 of his crew. Capt. Lt. Henke was killed when endeavouring to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1197

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