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

November 5, 2026 5:40 p.m.

The SS Cornwallis was transporting sugar and molasses from Barbados to New Brunswick when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Nomad Exploration Team

In December 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed a Canadian merchant ship off the coast of Maine, killing 43 crew members on board. Now, more than eight decades later, divers say they’ve located the long-lost World War II wreck.

The SS Cornwallis was discovered submerged nearly 400 feet deep in the northwest Atlantic Ocean near Mount Desert Rock , about 25 miles from the Maine mainland.…