An item referred to an announcement of the British naval authorities in India that the American cargo ship Sea Witch transporting US Army aviation personnel and material from Australia towards India was lost.
Note
1. Identical with C2 motor ship completed by Tampa Shipbuilding&Engineering Company, Tampa, Florida in July 1940, handed over on 30 July 1940, acquired by the War Shipping Administration on 26 January 1942 at Port Pirie, Australia, part of Convoy MS.5 bound for Colombo, Ceylon leaving Freemantle, Australia on 22 February 1942 , but underway ordered to Tjilatjap, Dutch East Indies, unloaded the aircraft and went back to Australia and served during the war, sold in 1947 and became a merchant ship, first American owned than Swedish as Axel Salen, resold in 1951 and renamed Bastasen en in the same year Warszawa
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 99 dated 19 March 1942
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