Cornwallis
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| Name | Cornwallis | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.458 tons | ||
| Completed | 1921 - J. Coughlan & Sons Ltd, Vancouver BC | ||
| Owner | Canadian National Steamships Ltd, Montreal | ||
| Homeport | Vancouver | ||
| Date of attack | 3 Dec, 1944 | Nationality:  Canadian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-1230 (Hans Hilbig) | ||
| Position | 43.59N, 68.20W - Grid BA 9572 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 48 (43 dead and 5 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Barbados - St. John, New Brunswick | ||
| Cargo | Bagged sugar and molasses in barrels | ||
| History | Built as Canadian Transporter, 1932 renamed Cornwallis At 22.37 hours on 11 Sep, 1942, U-514 (Auffermann) sank two ships with three torpedoes in the sea lanes off Bridgetown harbour, Barbados at 13°05N/59°36W (grid EE 7135). One of the victim is not identified (probably a French ship) and the other was Cornwallis (37 dead), which was later raised. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 10.00 hours on 3 Dec, 1944, the unescorted Cornwallis (Master Emerson Horace Robinson) was torpedoed and sunk by a Gnat from U-1230 in the Bay of Fundy northwest of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The master, 35 crew members and seven gunners were lost. Five survivors were picked up by the fishing vessel Notre Dame and landed at Rockland, Maine. | ||
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