The Gibbs Bros sent us their song: “(The almost sinking of) The Cornwallis”.Osfield Wiltshire heard the explosion from Belfield pasture in Black Rock.J Edward Hutson was 6 and was having tea with his grandfather John F Hutson in Belleville.He tells us how his Uncle, Fred Reed, took out the Harbour Patrol boat Hazel Y searching for U-Boat 514. David Badley was sixteen and saw the attack from Fontabelle.Doreen Weatherhead saw U-514 surface while swimming off Maxwell.Jim Burton witnessed the events first-hand from the roof of Barclays Bank in Broad Street, Bridgetown.The Bayley family heard the explosions from their lawn at Bay Cottage where they were having a 4 th birthday party for their daughter Peggy.Peggy O’Donnell witnessed the first explosions while at the Aquatic club.Pat Huchinson worked at the Barbados Foundry and worked on jury-rigging the Cornwallis.We have included a transcript of this article at the end of this post. Reggie reminisced about the torpedoing of the Cornwallis in The Bajan in August 1978. Reggie Gooding and Dick Davies witnessed the torpedoing from within Carlisle Bay.Copies of some of the official Colonial Office despatches sent from Barbados following the torpedoing of the CNS Cornwallis.provides a wealth of information on U-514.We wanted to mark this event by piecing together the facts from: interviews with people that witnessed the day when U-Boat 514 caused havoc in Carlisle Bay, published recollections and other historical information about the U-Boat war in the Caribbean. The 75 th anniversary of the torpedoing of the CNS Cornwallis in Carlisle Bay was Monday 11 th September 2017. Armstrong – Barbados At War 1939-45, Warren Alleyne) (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Hunt) Aerial view of Carlisle Bay in 1942 showing shipping at anchor behind the anti-torpedo net (Photo courtesy of Capt. Carlisle Bay, Barbados – September 2017- 75 years on from the torpedoing of the CNS Cornwallis Aerial view of Carlisle Bay -1955. The torpedoing of the Cornwallis in Carlisle Bay, Barbados on the afternoon of Friday 11 th September 1942 by German U-Boat 514 is remembered by older Bajans as the dark day in 1942 when World War II reached Barbados’ shores.
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