The Cuba (Wreck)
United Kingdom /
England /
Bembridge /
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/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ Bembridge
interesting place, invisible

11,420-ton French liner, built Newcastle 1923, taken as war prize by Royal Navy, used as troopship. 476ft x 62ft. 10,300hp turbine engines. Cargo: 223 crew, 29 gunners, 10 Army staff and three signallers. Le Havre to Southampton. Position: 50 36.00N; 00 58.58W. Depth: 32m.
Sunk: 6 April, 1945, when in convoy VWP 16, by a single torpedo from U-1195 (Kapitanleutnant Ernst Cordes, who had sunk the James Eagan Layne a few days earlier. Cordes killed with 30 of his crew when depth charged by destroyer escort).
Diving: Despite some salvage and dispersal, much wreckage stands upright 14m proud. Piles of steel plates and girders on very large site. Most of the 200 portholes are among the tangle. Mud and sand seabed; viz can be poor. Two-metre scour on north-east side.
Launch: Bembridge.
Sunk: 6 April, 1945, when in convoy VWP 16, by a single torpedo from U-1195 (Kapitanleutnant Ernst Cordes, who had sunk the James Eagan Layne a few days earlier. Cordes killed with 30 of his crew when depth charged by destroyer escort).
Diving: Despite some salvage and dispersal, much wreckage stands upright 14m proud. Piles of steel plates and girders on very large site. Most of the 200 portholes are among the tangle. Mud and sand seabed; viz can be poor. Two-metre scour on north-east side.
Launch: Bembridge.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°36'0"N -0°58'35"E
- Selsey 20 km
- Niton & Whitwell Parish 23 km
- Chesil Beach 117 km
- Valognes 124 km
- Utah Beach 128 km
- Bayeux 147 km
- Gonneville-sur-Mer 157 km
- Cabourg 157 km
- Jump-Off point for Operation Cobra 162 km
- Coutances 173 km
- U-1195 5.9 km
- Nab Tower Lighthouse 7.7 km
- Farthings 19 km
- bunn leisure, west sands 19 km
- Tennis Court 19 km
- Two Tennis Courts 19 km
- Selsey Lifeboat House 20 km
- St Peters Church 20 km
- Bowling Green 20 km
- The Solent 29 km