page_title: SS Clement
section_title: Sinking
hierarchical_section_title: SS Clement / History / Sinking
caption_attribution_description: English: Relief location map of Atlantic_Ocean. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. Area of interest: N: 70.0° N S: -70.0° N W: -95.0° E E: 25.0° E Projection center: NS: 0.0° N WE: -35.0° E GMT projection: -JA-35.0/0.0/180/19.998266666666666c GMT region: -R-147.58842045747764/-48.58942183011819/77.58842045747762/48.589421830118205r GMT region for grdcut: -R-148.0/-76.0/78.0/76.0r Relief: SRTM30plus. Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
context_page_description: TSS Clement, was a British turbine steamship operated by the Booth Steamship Company from 1934 to 1939 until she was intercepted and sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the east coast of Brazil becoming the first victim of Graf Spee's commerce raiding sortie.
context_section_description: Following the evacuation of the Clement, Graf Spee proceeded to sink the vessel. However this proved to be a more difficult task than was initially envisaged. Two torpedoes were launched, but failed to find their target. Following this Graf Spee opened fire on the Clement using some of her secondary armament of 15 cm (5.9 in) SK C/28 guns during the course of which she fired 25 rounds. Finally Graf Spee resorted to using some of her main armament of 28 cm (11.0 in) SK C/28 guns and after having expended 11 rounds from her primary guns the Clement finally sank at 16:40hrs.
caption: Approximate position of Clement's wreck
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