USSS-44(SS-155) was on her fifth patrol of the war the night of 7 October 1943, when at 20:30 the submarine picked up on radar what was presumed to be a small merchant ship. She would rejoin the war on 10 February 1943. The explosion heavily damaged David W. Taylor causing flooding, and the crew suffered four men killed. III) (LCS(L)), Lighter, covered (non-self-propelled) (YC), Derrick, floating (non-self-propelled) (YD), Workshop, floating (non-self-propelled) (YR), Patrol boat, 83-foot type (numbers 83300 83529), R.Rielly "Kamikaze Attacks of World War II " 2011; p. 249, R.Rielly "Kqamikaze Attacks of World War II" 2011; p. 226, R.Rielly "Kamikaze Attacks of World War II" 2011; p. 236, R. 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U-Boats off the Outer Banks | NCpedia 62 men were killed or wounded, but she continued to maintain her station in formation and operate effectively. Repurposed as a cargo barge and redesignated as IX-173 on 12 August 1944. The plane's bomb detonated upon striking the water, spraying the ship with shrapnel, killing three and wounding another sixteen of Daly's crew. Surabaya would fall to the Japanese, who would raise the Stewart and commission the ship into the IJN. However, after the war, Japanese records did not report sinking a submarine near Kiska when the submarine disappeared. Grounded by Typhoon Louise. USS YTM-467 lost in the Marshall or Gilbert Islands, March 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 9 June 1944. PT-145 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Mindiri, New Guinea, 4 January 1944. The crew feared the magazine would explode and abandoned ship. The crew of Luce lost one hundred forty-nine dead and ninety-four more were wounded. The crew was ordered to abandon the fast-sinking ship. Like her sister, she was sunk as a target ship in 1948. USS YMS-30 sunk by a mine off Anzio, Italy, 25 January 1944. . The war would end before the destroyer could return to action, and Bryant would sit in reserve for thirty years before scrapping. USSGrunion(SS-216) was on her first patrol near Kiska, Alaska on 30 July 1942; reporting she had been engaged by enemy destroyers and there was heavy anti-submarine activity near the island. USSAmberjack(SS-219) was on her third patrol of the war near the traffic routes of the Rabaul-Shortland Sea area, when she made a final radio transmission on 14 February 1943, reporting she had picked up an enemy aviator, and had been forced down by two tailing destroyers. She was the last Allied ship sunk by a kamikaze attack during World War II. Suddenly the kamikaze rolled in a half loop and plunged perfectly straight down onto the Stormes at torpedo mount. She would finish the war, later participating in "Magic Carpet". USSPerry(DMS-17) sunk by a mine off Palau, Caroline Islands, 13 September 1944. At 01:47, a torpedo, probably from Japanese cruiser Kako, hit Chicago's bow, sending a shock wave throughout the ship that damaged the main battery director. USS YC-646 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Although their ship was down by the bow and listing heavily to port, the destroyer's crew got the engines working again and enabled Grant to retire to friendlier waters. The starboard seaplane caught fire and was jettisoned. Grounded and destroyed to prevent capture. Fires were put out an hour later and Haynsworth made her way back to Kerama Retto for repairs. YP-453 destroyed by grounding in the Bahama Islands, 15 April 1943. Grounded by Typhoon Louise. USSRaleigh(CL-7) was moored on the west side of Ford Island when the Japanese made their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Eventually, however, the deck beneath grew hot and forced the wounded back to the forecastle. No other US submarine bedsides Pompano would have been operating in this area. Four of Natoma Bay's crew were wounded while one officer was killed. On 30 July 45, Cassin Young was patrolling near the entrance to Nakagusuku Bay to the Southeast of Okinawa when at 03:00, the destroyer picked up two incoming bogeys and fired upon them. Sunk by aerial torpedo and Kamikaze aircraft. Abele was able to avoid and shoot down several enemy planes but at 14:45, an A6M "Zero" crashed into the ship's starboard engine room. One five-inch gun. The ship was repaired and sent home to San, Diego, California, where she was decommissioned after the war. She lost power and suffered broken steam lines. The ship settled by the stern and developed a list to starboard, however the Wadleigh was saved by the her crew who had shifted weight to port which evened the list. One hit exploded upon impact on her armor causing little damage. USSQuail(AM-15) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942. USS Rivera (YFB-685) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. Hank put up a furious barrage of defensive fire which caused the kamikaze pilot to miss his target, splashing the sea just a few yards away and exploding. Fate unknown: lost either to Japanese submarine or to mines. PT-41 destroyed to prevent capture on road to Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 15 April 1942. USS YF-230 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. She survived Operation Crossroads with minor damage, to be scuttled in 1948. USS YSP-46 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. The ship would be sold to the Argentine Navy and eventually made its way back to the US and finally Japan (ironically) for scrapping in 1978. USSO'Brien(DD-415) was escorting a convoy of troop transports in company with USSWasp(CV-7) on 15 September 1942 when the American ships were targeted by Japanese submarine I-19. USS Indianapolis | Construction, Sinking, Casualties, & Facts Kalinin Bay responded to their straddling salvos with fire from her five-inch gun, which only intensified the enemy fire. Struck reef and grounded near Spruce Cape signal station. PT-301 damaged by explosion in port and scrapped, Mios Woendi, New Guinea, Pieces of the Japanese plane as well as the three bodies of its crew were scattered across the flight deck. USSNelson(DD-623) was supporting the invasion of Normandy off Omaha Beach when during the early morning hours of 13 June 1944 she made contact with an enemy E-boat at 0105. Laffey shot down four kamikaze planes before the fifth suicide plane struck a glancing blow on gun mount three and tumbled into the sea. The ship departed for San Francisco for more extensive repairs on 10 October. Irreparably damaged by Kamikaze aircraft. She was hit again off Okinawa by a kamikaze on 5 June 1945 with light damage and one man killed. USS YC-672 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. It would be struck by another kamikaze later that day, in the same spot the first plane had hit. USS YSR-2 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. October 15, 1917: U. S. S. Cousin (destroyer), displacement 1,139 tons; torpedoed by German submarine U-105, off. USSStrong(DD-467) was operating with TF 18 on 5 July 1943 supporting landings on New Georgia in the Kula Gulf by bombarding Japanese positions near Bairoko Harbor. The Japanese ship returned fire, but all salvos passed over the cruiser. A violent explosion rocked the ship, causing severe structural damage, but fortunately there were no casualties. Men struggling with the terrific blazes on the hangar deck soon had to abandon it because of the heavy black smoke from the burning planes and exploding .50 caliber ammunition. Her survivors were strafed by remaining Japanese planes until escorts were able to rescue Abele's men from the water. Two men were killed and fifteen wounded although damage was minor. USS St. The only discernable information available proposes that Runner had sunk a cargo ship on 11 June 1943 near Hokkaido, and had been attacked by Japanese escort ships on 22 June 1943, but no oil slick or debris had been reported. Destroyed with explosives 14 January 1946. USS YMS-350 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 2 July 1944. The ship had to be towed away from the battle area after losing forty-three men killed and sixty-four wounded. 5: Tug: Captured by Japanese: . Glennon was towed in an attempt to salvage her but on 9 June 1945, a German shore battery found its range on the ship and hit her with salvos of shells. The ship remained commissioned in the Navy until 1963. USSMurphy(DD-603) was supporting the Operation Torch landings on 8 November 1942 when during an exchange of fire with a French shore battery, she was hit by a shell that penetrated the engine room, killing 3 men and wounding 25. It remains unknown to this day exactly why S-28 sank, but taken down with her were the lives of forty-nine men. USSS-27(SS-132) was on her first and only patrol of the war to reconnoiter Kiska Island in the Aleutians on 19 June 1942. www.USMM.org 1998 - 2006. List of United States Navy and Coast Guard ships lost during World War II, from 31 October 1941 to 31 December 1946,[1] sorted by type and name. After two encounters with enemy vessels who luckily left without firing, 151 survivors were rescued in the morning by USS "Meade" (DD-602). Preston was hit by numerous heavy shells from Nagara that knocked out her firerooms and started large fires which better illuminated Preston for her enemies to see. Decommissioned on 18 July 1945. USS LCT(5)-25 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. Remarkably, no one was killed, and only three crewmen were wounded. USS LCT(6)-1029 sunk at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 2 March 1945. She would take part in an operation to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing their island garrisons on Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutians. Originally published Feb 1, 2011 Last edited May 9, 2019. USSBunting(AMc-7) sunk by collision in San Francisco Bay, California, 3 June 1942. The Sims was hit by three 250kg bombs, two of which exploded in the engine room. Famous racing yacht. Nine men were killed by the crash and another twenty two wounded. USSGambier Bay(CVE-73) was fired on and hit by multiple Japanese warships during the Battle off Samar when the highly outgunned and outnumbered task force "Taffy 3" was engaged by a surface group consisting of four battleships, including Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. The USS England sank six Japanese submarines in just 12 days in May 1944. Strange ships entering the harbor!" During the first three months of 1942, German U-boats sank more than 100 ships off the east coast of North America, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea. Parkin, Robert Sinclair. Control was again lost. On 30 September, Escolar transmitted a partial message which indicated she had been engaged by an enemy gunboat. The ship was sent back to the west coast for repairs but returned to duty in April 1944. The torpedo passed alongside, but the plane crashed into San Francisco's control aft, swung around that structure, and plunged over the port side into the sea. Since it appeared that the ship could be saved, a salvage crew of about 325 able-bodied men went back aboard Astoria. Another shell destroyed her catapult track, and resulted in a small explosion within her flag office. Several American destroyers were called forward to silence the batteries. The hulk of the abandoned ship drifted ashore to Tokashiki where it was shelled by the Japanese and pounded by the surf. Her scheduled report to chain of command on the twelfth never occurred and the sub was never seen or heard from again. USSHovey(DMS-11) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 January 1945. The suicide plane smashed into the mainmast and forward stack of the ship, wounding five men and starting several fires. Caldwell was hit by two bombs, one of the diving planes turned on its back and struck the bridge of the destroyer. Foundered in storm near Cape Bon, Tunisia, seriously damaged by Japanese torpedo planes en route to Saipan, was scuttled by USS Stembel DD-644. The torpedo opened a thirty-foot hole in the side of the ship, killed twenty men and wounded ten more. Owing to the massive explosion and quick sinking, it was assumed by the task force commander that nobody could have survived Juneau's destruction, and fearing more submarine attacks on his damaged force; he made the decision to not stop and pick up survivors. Grounded on Iwo Jima on 1 December 1945. USSLagarto(SS-371) was on her ninth patrol of the war hunting a Japanese convoy in company with the submarine USSBaya(SS-318) in the Gulf of Thailand on 3 May 1945. USS APc-35 grounded off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 22 September 1943. Three hours later, as she began to sink stern-first, she had to be abandoned. The submarine was ordered to change her patrol area north of Iwo Jima on 9 November which she acknowledged. The enemy plane crashed into the ship's superstructure and a 40mm gun mount. Four diving A6M Zeros attacked Kalinin Bay from astern and the starboard quarter. At 20:07, the ship's island detached from the hull and slid into the water. 15 men were killed and 5 other men were wounded. USSPickerel(SS-177) left Pearl Harbor on 18 March 1943 for her seventh patrol of the war, and arrived to top off fuel and supplies at Midway Island before heading to the north-eastern coast of Honshu. USSPillsbury(DD-227) was attempting to rendezvous with friendly forces near Java on 2 Mar 1942 when at she was engaged in a night action with the Japanese heavy cruisers Takao and Atago. This map, currently, includes ships lost in the Gulf of Mexico which has its own map. Now gun flashes, tracers, and star shell candles stained the black inky darkness. The shell hit the Combat Information Center on board; killing six and wounding 14 others. USS LCT(5)-305 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. She returned to the states for two months of repairs and modernization. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993. Her gasoline system was inoperative, and her bow sank 7ft below design specifications. The pilot identified the destroyer and oiler as a cruiser and carrier, respectively. The Shubrick was towed to Malta and was able to make the US for permanent repairs on only one screw. Sunk by shore batteries after accidental grounding. 693 men went down with Houston, while 368 survived the sinking to become prisoners of the Japanese. 95 men were killed when Buck sank. Six men were killed and another 12 of her crew were wounded in the attack, but Drayton was able to complete her escort mission and return to New Guinea for repairs. Forty-six members of her crew were lost with the ship, but luckily two hundred forty one were saved. USSMount Hood(AE-11) destroyed by explosion at Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944. The crew attempted to rig a sail to move the sub closer to land, but unfortunately two Japanese boats appeared and soon took all of the subs crew prisoner after Grenadier was abandoned. The sub and her sixty crew were presumed lost on 22 March 1943. Two more kamikazes would crash into the stricken Colhoun, the final one impacting the ship's bridge. 1,554 ships. Hit by a German glider bomb and heavily damaged. Severely damaged by enemy action and not repaired. The ship suffered no casualties during the raid. The combined total of WWII shipwrecks stands at 7,807 vessels worldwide according to The Global Risk of Marine Pollution from WWII Shipwrecks:Examples from the Seven Seas. The ship was also targeted by strafing aircraft. A second torpedo hit but failed to explode, and a shell hit the cruiser's mainmast, killing two crewmen. In minutes the ship buckled amidships and began to sink stern first. USS YF-487 lost in the Caribbean Sea, 18 July 1943. USSBorie(DD-215) was hunting German U-boat "U405" on 1 November 1943 when the submarine surfaced and the vessels engaged each other with gunfire. Before noon the enemy planes departed, leaving the damaged cruiser with 15 dead or mortally wounded and 84 seriously injured. The ship's crew raced to their battle stations and two minutes after the torpedo hit, the backup forward diesel generator had been turned on, restoring power to the guns. USS LCT(5)-294 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. USS YMS-304 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 30 July 1944. She returned to the war in March 1945. Disintegrated by internal explosion of undetermined cause. On 27 November 1944 she was hit by two kamikazes. William B Preston would finish the war as a tender and occasional transport. Resilience retraced her course trying to reestablish communication with S-28. Although Edsall brazenly fired her torpedoes and main battery at the enemy ships, she was soon struck by dive bombers and hit by large-caliber naval gunfire. A Zero crashed into Suwanee's flight deck at 1240 and careened into a torpedo bomber which had just been recovered. Foote was left adrift until the Japanese broke off contact, afterwards she was taken under tow to Purvis Bay for repairs.

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