Cecilia Maude CRIBB. S.R.N., S.C.M. Nursing Sister 206920 QAIMNSR. Born 23 April 1912 to Walter Henry and Maude Helena Cribb, nee Semon of Holborn, Middlesex. UK & Ireland, Nursing Registers, 1898-1968 Her permanent address was Jocand South Avenue, Heath End Farnham Surrey. Trained at St. John's Hospital, Lewisham, 1933-1937 qualified by examination, which was registered 17 March 1938 in London 1939 Staff Nurse at Wilson Hospital Mitcham, Surrey. Killed aged 30 years at sea when SS Ceramic, bound for Australia, was torpedoed by U-515 in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Azores 7 December 1942. She was posted for duty in Capetown Commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Surrey. Commemorated on the Scotland, National War Memorial Index, 1914-1945, Ancestry. Wills and Admin, Ancestry. Cecilia Maude Cribb of Jocand South Avenue, Heath End Farnham Surrey. Died 07 December 1942 on war service. Probate Llandudno 12 February 1944 to Walter Arthur Cribb builders surveyor.

Steam Ship Ceramic embarked from Liverpool the 24 November 1942, bound for Sydney Australia, via St. Helena, Durban, which was her regular run. The ship was torpedoed the 07 December 1942 by a German submarine, U-515 about 420 miles west-northwest of the Azores. commanded by Korvettenkapitan Werner Hanke. He was later captured and whilst a POW attempted to escape and was fatally shot in the attempt. The ship sank within minutes. There was only one survivor from the 656 people aboard which included the crew and 30 nurses. Nurse Dolan was to disembarked at St Helena for duty, the remainder at Durban, South Africa for duty in Cape Town. The sole survivor was Sapper Eric Munday of the Royal Engineers who was picked up after four days in the water by an U-Boat and taken prisoner of war. https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/2496.html

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