Clonlara
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| Name | Clonlara | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.203 tons | ||
| Completed | 1926 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | Limerick SS Co Ltd, Limerick | ||
| Homeport | Limerick | ||
| Date of attack | 22 Aug, 1941 | Nationality:  Irish | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-564 (Reinhard Suhren) | ||
| Position | 40.43N, 11.39W - Grid CG 1953 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 33 (20 dead and 13 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OG-71 | ||
| Route | Cardiff - Lisbon | ||
| Cargo | 1000 tons of coal | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 23.31 hours on 22 Aug, 1941, U-564 fired a salvo of four torpedoes at the convoy OG-71 west of Aveiro, Portugal and observed four different detonations and three columns of fire, later lifeboats were seen. Suhren thought that he had sunk two ships and damaged two others. However, only two ships were hit and sunk, the Empire Oak and Clonlara. The master and 12 crew members from the Clonlara (Master Joseph Reynolds) were picked up by HMS Campion (K 108) (LtCdr A. Johnson) and landed at Gibraltar on 24 August. Six crew members and all 14 survivors from the Alva were lost. | ||
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