Derek Law Bibliography

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HARDY, Clare. SS Ceramic: The Untold Story: Includes the rescue of sole survivor Eric Munday. 572p., bibliog., illus., index. [n.p.], 2006. ISBN: 1904908640.

Detached from ON149 in December 1942, the ss Ceramic was torpedoed and sunk west of the Azores by U-515. 20-year old Eric Munday, a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, was the only survivor of 656 passengers and crew. One of the casualties was the author's grandfather. Munday tells his story in full, and the surviving crew of U-515 give their own accounts of the sinking, ranked the 23rd worst wartime shipping disaster of any nation or period.