SS Clearton

History


Name:	SS Clearton
Operator:	R. Chapman & Son, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Builder:	Richardson, Duck and Company, Stockton-on-Tees
Completed:	September 1919
Fate:	sunk 1 July 1940
General characteristics
Tonnage:	5,219 GRT
Capacity:	7,320 tons
Crew:	34

SS Clearton was a 5,219 gross register tons (GRT) British cargo steamship. She was built in 1919 by Richardson, Duck and Company, Stockton-on-Tees for the shipping firm of R. Chapman & Son, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her homeport was Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Career and loss

In the Second World War she sailed in convoys, carrying food supplies to the United Kingdom. Her last convoy, SL-36, took her from Rosario, Argentina to Manchester, via Freetown, Sierra Leone, where she arrived on 15 June 1940. She was carrying a cargo of 7,320 tons of cereals, commanded by her Master, John Edward Elsdon.

At 1155 hours on 1 July 1940 German submarine U-102 torpedoed and damaged Clearton about 180 miles west of Ushant. The ship fell behind the convoy and at 1325 hours U-102 torpedoed her again, sinking her 042° 240 miles from Smalls. Eight crew members were lost out of a total complement of 34. The Admiralty-modified W-class destroyer HMS Vansittart sank the submarine, rescued Clearton's Master, 24 crew members and one DEMS gunner, and brought the survivors to Plymouth.

References

SS Clearton at Uboat.net

Coordinates: 47°53′N 9°30′W / 47.883°N 9.500°W / 47.883; -9.500

Standard design ships of WWI ordered by the British Shipping Controller

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1 = Cancelled. 2 = Probably completed under a different name. 3 = Not completed

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1940

Shipwrecks	1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de Genouilly 5 Jul: HMS Foylebank, HMS Whirlwind, Zeffiro 6 Jul: Dunkerque, HMS Shark 9 Jul: Bruges, HMS Salmon 10 Jul: Leone Pancaldo 11 Jul: HMS Escort, HMS Warrior 16 Jul: HMS Imogen, HMS Phoenix 19 Jul: Bartolomeo Colleoni 21 Jul: HMS Brazen 23 Jul: HMS Narwhal 25 Jul: HMS Thames 27 Jul: HMS Codrington, HMS Wren 30 Jul: HMS Delight

Other incidents	3 Jul: Courbet, Dunkerque, La Capricieuse, Léopard, Paris, Surcouf, Triomphant 4 Jul: Argos Hill, British Corporal 9 Jul: HMS Foxglove 10 Jul: HMS Corfu, HMS Hermes 16 Jul: HMS Glasgow 27 Jul: Lepanto 28 Jul: HMS Alcantara

1939 1940 1941 June 1940 August 1940

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