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. 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). On the night of 7/8 March 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by German

E-Boat E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: ''Schnellboot'', or ''S-Boot'', meaning "fast boat") of the Kriegsmarine during World War II; ''E-boat'' could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a la ...

''S28'' while heading north with a convoy off

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. 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.

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**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'' 1923 ships Colliers Maritime incidents in November 1940 Maritime incidents in March 1941 Ships built on the River Tyne World War II shipwrecks in the North Sea {{Merchantship-stub