A fierce Mediterranean gale last week destroyed three Palestine vessels and took the lives of five Palestine seamen, it was disclosed here today. The three ships that were lost in a storm off Latakia, Syria, were the 200-ton S.S. Stikva, the 407-ton S.S. Amathus, belonging to the Atid Navigation Co., and the motorship, Hafez Elrahman, owned by the Palestine Transport and Shipping Co.
The five seamen, all of whom were lost when the Stikva went down, are Jacob Salem, Urko Chibowsky, Jacob Silberstein, Pavel Kreigel and Eisig Rittner. The first three were buried at Beirut, while the bodies of the other two have not been recovered. Kreigel, who was the first officer of the Stikva, had previously been rescued from the S.S. Antar, which was torpedoed by an Italian submarine some time ago.
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