Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/SS Corsea

This applies to SS Corsea, Corduff, Colonel Crompton and Fireglow.

The source of mjroots’ error about the aircraft which damaged SS Corsea, Corduff and Colonel Crompton on 11 November 1940 seems to have been "World War II at Sea" Vol.3 by Bertke, Kiddell and Smith. They are usually accurate, but on this are badly wrong. They say the attack was by "torpedo" in "Barrow Deep, off Middlesbrough". Barrow Deep, yes, but it is 200 miles from Middlesbrough.

My sources were all primary-source, mostly Admiralty-official/National Archive and German Bundsarchiv. UK ones include RN Nore Command War Diary, RAF Martlesham Heath, Fighter Command and various squadron record books. Even the 1940/41 German press agrees. However, I also list some secondary sources, which the authors have accurately based on RAF and Luftwaffe records, to make it fully clear. Peter C Smith: Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945 --and his Divebomber John Foreman: Battle of Britain; the Forgotten Months, November & December 1940 Relevant snippets from these can be seen online.

Several other Wikipedia entries about "He 115" attacks and British North Sea colliers, such as Fireglow, are also wrong as they stand. It will help if the HMSO List of Merchant Ship sinkings, or Lloyds records, or the Hydrographic Dept Survey, are also consulted. They too will support my point. The Hummelchun Seekrieg website is accurate but Mjroots has misread it. No primary source, British or German, attributes attacks on Allied ships (south of the Humber) to He 115s.

Hope mjroots checks these and corrects errors himself.

JPF