SS Corduff

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]

History
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	2,345 gross register tons (GRT) 1,322 net register tons (NRT)
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

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.