Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Tuesday, November 5, 1940 @ 1650 		CORNISH CITY (1936-1943 General cargo ship 130m long of Leeds Shipping Co. / Reardon Smith Line : torpedoed and sunk July 1943) Own Page

Wartime 1940 and CORNISH CITY is Commodore ship in Halifax Convoy 84
Ship's locationHalifax Convoy 84 in Mid-AtlanticGross Tonnage4,952

 

 

Courtesy of University of Glasgow Archives and Special

Collections, Anchor Line Ltd Collection, GB248 ref UGD 255/1/7/4

ADDITIONAL NOTE FOR INFORMATION :

   The German warship attacking the convoy was the

Pocket Battleship ADMIRAL SCHEER.