[2] It developed 370 horsepower (280 kW) of which provided Cornwallis a top speed of 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph).

[3] On 6 November 1935, a crew member was severely injured after a wave struck the deck of Cornwallis.

[8] On 11 September 1942, while anchored at Carlisle Bay, Bridgetown, Barbados she was fired upon by U-514 with multiple G7e torpedoes at a distance of 2,400 yards (2,200 m).

[11] She left port with a crew complement of 48 including seven armed guards and a British DBS.

[2] The ship's captain, Emerson Robinson, was instructed to sail unescorted through the Cape Cod Canal and then up the coast of New England before finally arriving at their destination Saint John.

The survivors would later be picked up by the fishing vessel Notre Dame with one perishing en route due to hypothermia.

[1] The wreckage of Cornwallis can be found 300 feet (91 m) beneath the ocean 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Mount Desert Rock in the Gulf of Maine.