A Nazi Submarine Torpedoed a Merchant Ship Just Off the Coast of Maine in 1944. Divers Have Finally Located the Wreckage, 400 Feet Below the Surface
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Off Maine's Coast, a Wreck 'That Belongs to Everyone and No One'
A World War II vessel lying off Maine's coast has finally been pinned down. Civilian divers say they've located the SS Cornwallis, a Canadian merchant ship sunk by a German torpedo in December 1944, about 25 miles south of the mainland, Killing 43 of 48 crew members, reports Smithsonian. The...
The research, started in 2019, gave these experienced divers a run for their money. In 1944, the Cornwallis shipwreck allowed
A Nazi Submarine Torpedoed a Merchant Ship Just Off the Coast of Maine in 1944. Divers Have Finally Located the Wreckage, 400 Feet Below the Surface
The SS "Cornwallis" was traveling between Barbados and Canada when it was sunk by a German U-boat that had delivered Nazi spies to American soil just days earlier
More than 80 years after disappearing at sea during World War II, the wreckage of the Canadian ship Cornwallis has finally been located. The vessel was sunk by a Nazi submarine in December 1944, in waters near the state of Maine, in the United States. The discovery was announced by the Nomad Exploration Team, which dedicated seven years to searching for the shipwreck. As the team explains, the Cornwallis had departed from Barbados, in the Caribb…
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