Oropesa
| Name | Oropesa | ||
| Type: | Steam passenger ship | ||
| Tonnage | 14.118 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Birkenhead | ||
| Owner | Pacific Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Jan, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-96 (Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock) | ||
| Position | 56.28N, 12W - Grid AM 0185 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 249 (106 dead and 143 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Mombasa - UK | ||
| Cargo | 8252 tons of general cargo, including copper and maize | ||
| History | The Oropesa was requisitioned in September 1939 as troopship. On 4 Dec, 1939, she was damaged in a collision with the British steam merchant Manchester Regiment in a convoy about 150 miles southwest of Cape Race. The latter vessel sank with nine casualties among her crew of 72. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.56 hours on 16 Jan, 1941, the unescorted Oropesa (Master Harry E.H. Croft) was hit in the stern by one torpedo from U-96 southeast of Rockall. She was missed by a coup de grāce at 04.40 hours and sank at 06.16 hours after being hit by two coups de grāce at 05.03 and 05.59 hours. The master, 98 crew members, one gunner and six passengers were lost. 109 crew members, one gunner and 33 passengers were picked up by the British rescue tugs HMS Superman (W 89) and HMS Tenacity (W 18) and the HMS Westcott (D 47) (LtCdr W.F.R. Segrave) and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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