Clarissa Radcliffe
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| Name | Clarissa Radcliffe | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.754 tons | ||
| Completed | 1915 - Craig, Taylor & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees | ||
| Owner | Evan Thomas Radcliffe & Co, Cardiff | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 18 Mar, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-663 (Heinrich Schmid) | ||
| Position | 42N, 62W - Grid AK 9655 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 55 (55 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | SC-122 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Pepel - New York (5 Mar) - Barrow | ||
| Cargo | Iron ore | ||
| History | Launched as Windsor, completed as Gwent, 1917 renamed Clarissa Radcliffe | ||
| Notes on loss | At 15.40 hours on 18 Mar, 1943, the Clarissa Radcliffe (Master Stuart Gordon Finnes), a straggler from convoy SC-122 since a heavy storm on 9 March, was torpedoed and sunk by U-663 west of Boston. The ship was missed by three torpedoes, before the fourth sank the ship almost immediately. The master, 42 crew members and 12 gunners were lost. | ||
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