The odd thing was that there was very little information publicly available around this tragedy. Other than brief news publications many of the survivors and their families kept to themselves, few individuals left memoirs and diaries mention this in their past. 
Until the discovery of the Tilawa, and with the valuable silver recovered that the public took interest. The founder of the SS Tilawa memorial website is a descendant of one of the survivors. He hopes that more families could use his Web hub to establish a community, to remember the victims and bring some closure to the families.
It was fitting that the South African mint and the Royal Mint also struck their own privy coins; 2025 Krugerrand [SS Tilawa Privy](https://en.numista.com/143754) and 2025 Britannia [SS Tilawa Privy](https://en.numista.com/353110), though I'm not sure if they used the recovered silver for them.

Thanks for the comment @silvertop 
!HUG