Coquetdale

Type of vessel - Steam Ship

How sunk – Air raid by Luftwaffe

Former names – None

Wreck height - 6m

The Coquetdale was part of a convoy CW9 in which 7 ships and 10 Hurricane fighters were lost. 3 ships sunk off the Sussex coast by fast German E-boats. The Ajax, Borealis, Coquetdale and Empire Crusader were all sank on the 8th August 1940 by German aircraft in a tale in which many lives were lost.

The wreck has collapsed over to port. Her hull plating amidships has blown outwards on her starboard side.

South Coast
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