Rushpool
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| Name | Rushpool | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.125 tons | ||
| Completed | 1928 - Cowpen Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Blyth | ||
| Owner | Sir R. Ropner & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool | ||
| Homeport | West Hartlepool | ||
| Date of attack | 30 Jan, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-94 (Herbert Kuppisch) | ||
| Position | 56N, 15.42W - Grid AM 2948 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 40 (0 dead and 40 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-19 (straggler) | ||
| Route | St. John, New Brunswick - Halifax - Belfast | ||
| Cargo | 7714 tons of grain | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 02.47 hours on 30 Jan, 1941, the Rushpool (Master William George Stewart Hewison), a straggler from convoy SC-19, was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-94 southeast of Rockall. The ship had been spotted at 00.40 hours and missed with a spread of two torpedoes at 02.09 hours. She sank by the bow 35 minutes after being hit by a coup de grāce at 03.10 hours. The master and 39 crew members were picked up by HMS Antelope (H 36) (LtCdr R.T. White DSO) and landed at Greenock. | ||
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