Divers find wreck of Canadian ship Cornwallis sunk by U-boat in 1944
The gist
A New Hampshire dive team found the SS Cornwallis, torpedoed off Maine in 1944 with 43 dead.
The discovery gives families of the lost crew a long-missing resting place.
How it unfolded
- 1921The ship is launched in Vancouver, British Columbia, as the Canadian Transporter and later renamed Cornwallis after transfer to Canadian National Steamships.
- Nov 29, 1944The submarine U-1230 lands two German agents, Erich Gimpel and William Colepaugh, near Hancock, Maine, on a mission called Operation Magpie.
- Nov 1944Cornwallis leaves Barbados loaded with bags of sugar and barrels of molasses, bound for Saint John, N.B.