Sedgepool
| Name | Sedgepool | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.556 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Ropner Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees | ||
| Owner | Sir R. Ropner & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool | ||
| Homeport | West Hartlepool | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-123 (Karl-Heinz Moehle) | ||
| Position | 57.20N, 11.22W - Grid AM 2927 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 39 (3 dead and 36 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-7 | ||
| Route | Montreal - Sydney (5 Oct) - Manchester | ||
| Cargo | 8720 tons of wheat | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 01.55 hours on 19 Oct, 1940, the Sedgepool (Master Robert Bell Witten) in convoy SC-7 was hit by one torpedo from U-123 and sank in five minutes about 80 miles west by south from St. Kilda. The ship had been missed by a first torpedo at 01.35 hours. The master and two crew members were lost. 35 crew members and one gunner were picked up by the HMS Salvonia (W 43) (Lt G.M.M. Dickinson) and landed at Gourock. | ||
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