# SS Corduff

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**SS *Corduff***, a laden [collier](/source/Collier_(ship)) in East Coast convoy FS 32, was damaged, though without casualties, in an attack by [Stuka divebomber](/source/Stuka_dive_bomber) 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](/source/E-boat) [German torpedo boat *S28*](/source/German_torpedo_boat_S28) while heading north with a convoy off [Cromer](/source/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](/source/Cromer_Lifeboat_Station) [*H F Bailey*](/source/RNLB_H_F_Bailey_(ON_777)). 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](/source/Cory_(company)).

## References

1. 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)](/source/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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