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SS Celtic Star

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Image Details

Title	SS Celtic Star
Reference Number	STH0001952
Photographer	Unknown
Town or Village	South Shields
Date	c1920
Original Format	Black and white photograph
Period	The 1920s
Copyright	South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information	A refrigerated cargo ship built as the Camana for Camana Shipping Co Ltd built by Dunlop, Bremner and Company, Port Glasgow during 1917. She was later sold to the Blue Star Line Ltd and renamed Celtic Star This image dates between 1929 and before 1935 when she had a larger,wider funnel fitted. She was torpedoed and sunk on the 30th March 1943 by the Italian submarine, Giuseppe Finzi, off Freetown, Sierra Leone carrying 4450 tons of cargo. Two crew members were lost.