SS Corduff
| History | |
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| Name | Corduff |
| Owner | William Cory & Son Ltd, London |
| Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend |
| Yard number | 1221 |
| Launched | 6 November 1923 |
| Completed | December 1923 |
| Fate | Sunk on 7 March 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage |
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| Length | 284.5 ft (86.7 m) |
| Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Depth | 19.6 ft (6.0 m) |
| Installed power | 247 nhp |
| Propulsion | Triple expansion steam engine |
SS Corduff, a laden 2,345 GRT collier in East Coast convoy FS 32, was damaged, though without casualties, in an attack by Stuka divebomber aircraft in the Barrow Deep on 11 November 1940.[1]
On the night of 7/8 March 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by German E-boat S28 while heading north with a convoy off Cromer. Seven of her crew were lost, and, after drifting for some hours and being hailed by the E-boat captain, the other 14 (including Captain Rees) were found by the Cromer lifeboat H F Bailey. It was the night of the most successful E-boat raid on East Coast merchant shipping, with six other ships sunk. Corduff belonged to William Cory & Son Ltd.
References
[edit]- ^ One website wrongly attributes the attack to a Heinkel. (Sources--Convoy Reports ADM 199/39, Nore Cmd War Diaries ADM 199/375 at National Archives; Peter C Smith "Divebomber"' J Foreman "The Battle of Britain--The Forgotten Months==November & December 1940).
- The National Archives (United Kingdom)
- E-Boat Actions ADM 199/670
- Nore Cmd WD ADM 199/407
- Lloyd's Lists
- HMSO Shipping Losses list, 1947
- J P Foynes, Battle of the East Coast 1939–1945
- V Kuhn, Schnellboote in Einsatz 1939–1945
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