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SS Corduff, a laden 2345 grt collier in East Coast convoy FS 32, was damaged, though without casualties, in an attack by Stuka divebombers 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. References1. ^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
- 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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