Clintonia
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| Name | Clintonia | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3.106 tons | ||
| Completed | 1917 - W. Dobson & Co, Walker-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Joseph Robinson & Sons, North Shields | ||
| Homeport | North Shields | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-123 (Karl-Heinz Moehle) | ||
| Position | 57.10N, 11.20W - Grid AM 2981 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 36 (1 dead and 35 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-7 (straggler) | ||
| Route | St.Francis, Nova Scotia - Sydney (5 Oct) - Manchester | ||
| Cargo | 3850 tons of pulpwood | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.58 hours on 19 Oct, 1940, the Clintonia (Master Thomas Hector Irvin) in convoy SC-7 was hit by one torpedo from U-99 (Kretschmer) 200 miles west of St.Kilda. The vessel remained afloat and was sunk by gunfire from U-123 at 05.04 hours. One crew member was lost. The master, 33 crew members and one gunner were picked up by the British corvette HMS Bluebell (K 80) (LtCdr Robert E. Sherwood) and landed at Greenock. | ||
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