The Einvik (Master Finn Wetteland) was a straggler from convoy SC-41 and was sailing alone since a week, when she was torpedoed by U-501 about 450 miles southwest of Iceland on 5 September 1941 and later sunk by gunfire. Iceland Radio had received her distress signals and an aircraft was sent to the position. The aircraft found nothing and they reported that there were probably no survivors. At that time all 23 crew members were heading for Iceland in two lifeboats, which were separated in a storm four days after the sinking. On 12 September, an Icelandic motor boat found twelve men in a lifeboat just west of Heimaey, Iceland and were brought to Vestmanna. The other lifeboat landed at Herdisvik, Iceland the next day.