SS Clement was a British turbine steamship operated by the Alfred Booth and 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
SS Clement
Admiral Graf Spee
Alfred Booth and Company was a British trading and shipping company, founded in 1866 and traded for more than a century. It was founded in Liverpool, England, by two brothers, Alfred and Charles Booth to export English light leather to the US. It grew into a significant merchant shipping company with its head office in Liverpool and interests in the United States and South America. The group was broken up in 1964 and the last Booth company from the group was sold in 1986.
Lanfranc, launched in 1906, was a hospital ship from 1915 and sunk in 1917
The cargo steamship Clement was launched in 1934 and sunk in 1939
Anselm, launched in 1935, was a troopship from 1940 and sunk in 1941