Cordelia

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Name	Cordelia
Type:	Motor tanker
Tonnage	8,190 tons
Completed	1932 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland
Owner	C.T. Bowring & Co Ltd, London
Homeport	Liverpool
Date of attack	3 Feb 1943	Nationality: British

Fate	Sunk by U-632 (Hans Karpf)
Position	56.37N, 22.58W - Grid AL 6119 - See location on a map -
Complement	47 (46 dead and 1 survivor).
Convoy	HX-224 (straggler)
Route	Curaçao - New York (22 Jan) - Clyde
Cargo	12.000 tons of Admiralty fuel oil
History
Notes on loss	At 21.54 hours on 3 Feb, 1943, the Cordelia (Master Edward Marshall), a straggler from convoy HX-224, was torpedoed and sunk by U-632 south of Iceland. The master, 37 crew members and eight gunners were lost. The sole survivor, chief engineer I.C. Bingham, was taken prisoner by the U-boat and carelessly mentioned the convoy SC-118 which was reported to the BdU. The convoy was subsequently attacked with the loss of nine ships. The survivor landed at Brest on 14 February and was taken to the German POW camp Milag Nord.

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