List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II

This is a list of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II. It also lists United States Coast Guard losses.

Warships

Battleships (BB)

USS Utah (AG-16) was hit by two torpedoes dropped from B5N "Kate" bombers at the onset of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She immediately began listing and capsized within ten minutes. 58 men were lost on Utah during the attack. Attempts to salvage the old ship were abandoned and today her wreck lies in Pearl Harbor as a war memorial.

USS Nevada (BB-36), during the Pearl Harbor attack, was hit by a torpedo, several 250 kg bombs, and possibly a 800 kg bomb. Afire and taking on a list, she maneuvered and was deliberately beached near Hospital Point to prevent her sinking in deeper waters. Nevada lost 60 men killed and 109 wounded in the attack. She was repaired, and overhauled by October 1942. While bombarding Iwo Jima she was hit by a kamikaze which crashed into the main deck near turret number three. 11 men were killed and 49 wounded but damage was minor. After the war Nevada was used a target ship, first in Operation Crossroads, then sunk by naval gunfire and torpedoes in 1948.

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was consecutively hit by at least five torpedoes during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She capsized within ten minutes and lay upside down in the shallow harbor with hundreds of men trapped inside. 429 crewmen died when Oklahoma capsized but 32 men were rescued from the overturned ship. The ship was righted, refloated and sunk while under tow to California for scrapping in 1947.

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was struck by a single 250 kg bomb which caused minor damage. She was also set afire from nearby ships sharing the drydock with Pennsylvania. The ship was also targeted by strafing aircraft. 15 men were killed and 38 wounded in the attack. On 12 August 1945, just off the coast of Japan, a lone Japanese torpedo bomber penetrated the Allied defense to hit Pennsylvania with its warhead. The torpedo opened a 30-foot hole in the side of the ship, killed 20 men and wounded 10 more. Pennsylvania was the last major US ship damaged in the war. She survived Operation Crossroads with minor damage, to be scuttled in 1948.

USS Arizona (BB-39) was hit by at least two 800 kg (1,760 lb) armor piercing bombs dropped by B5N "Kate" bombers during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Moments after the bombs struck, Arizona was torn apart by a gigantic magazine explosion which disintegrated most of the forward part of the ship. Arizona sank into the shallow water of the harbor, taking 1,177 of her crew with her. Today she lies where she sank just under the surface of the water. A memorial and shrine to her crew was constructed in 1962.

USS New Mexico (BB-40) was taking part in the pre-invasion shelling of Lingayen Gulf on 6 January. During the bombardment she came under heavy attack by kamikaze aircraft, one of which hit the bridge, killing her captain, 29 others and wounding 87. On 12 May, she was attacked by two kamikazes. One of them plunged into her; the other managed to hit with its bomb. She was set on fire and 54 crew were killed, while a further 119 were wounded. After the war, New Mexico was sold for scrap in 1947.

USS Mississippi (BB-41) suffered an explosion in her number two turret during bombardment of Makin Island on 20 November 1943 which killed 43 men. On 9 January 1945 she was struck by a kamikaze while operating in Lingayen Gulf, receiving minor damage, but suffered 26 dead and 63 wounded. She was hit again off Okinawa by a kamikaze on 5 June 1945 with light damage and one man killed. She was scrapped in 1957 after a lengthy, prestigious career.

USS Idaho (BB-42), on 3 May 1945 off Okinawa, was attacked by two Vals and three Kates at 1452. She shot them all down, but one exploded close off her port quarter. Another crashed close aboard her port quarter and exploded, flooding her blisters. Shrapnel was sent flying over the deck but the ship had taken only minor damage. She was scrapped in 1947.

USS Tennessee (BB-43) received two 800 kg bomb hits during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Both weapons caused minor damage to Tennessee's gun turrets while scattering shrapnel across the ship, killing several men including the captain of the West Virginia. The ship was showered with burning debris, falling iron, and burning oil when USS Arizona exploded just to the aft of the ship. Tennessee suffered four killed and 22 wounded in the attack. On 12 April 1945, Tennessee was hit by a low flying kamikaze on the starboard bow, crashing into the signal bridge. The burning wreck slid aft along the superstructure, crushing antiaircraft guns and their crews, stopping next to Turret Three. Its 250 lb bomb, with what was left of the plane, went through the wooden deck and exploded. 22 men were killed or fatally wounded, with another 107 injured. However, damage was slight and Tennessee was back to duty two days later. She was scrapped in 1959 after years in mothball.

USS California (BB-44) was hit by two torpedoes and an 800 kg bomb, leaving her sunk in shallow water during the Pearl Harbor raid. She was raised and underwent major reconstruction to modernize the ship, rejoining the fleet in May 1944. While underway on 23 Aug, USS Tennessee collided with California after a steering malfunction. Seven men died in the accident on California. On 20 November 1944 a pair of Zero kamikazes approached the ship; California's gunners shot one of them down, but the other struck her on the port side abreast of the mainmast. Gasoline from the plane's fuel tanks started a fire and a 5-inch shell from another ship accidentally hit one of California's 5-inch guns, exploded inside the turret, and started another fire. Both fires were out within twelve minutes, but 44 men were killed and another 155 were injured. She was scrapped in 1959.

USS Colorado (BB-45) was damaged by counter battery fire during the bombardment of Tinian on 24 July. 43 men were killed, and 198 wounded by 22 shell hits from Japanese shore batteries; however, she continued shelling the island and providing fire support for the invasion troops. On 27 November 1944 she was hit by two kamikazes. The first crashed into a port side 5 inch gun turret and inflicted numerous casualties among personnel in two 40mm mounts. 19 were killed and 72 wounded. A friendly fire incident on 9 January 1945 accidentally hit her superstructure with gunfire killing 18 and wounding 51. Colorado was scrapped in 1959.

USS Maryland (BB-46) suffered light bomb damage and four men killed at Pearl Harbor. She was repaired, refitted at Puget S,ound, and rejoined the fleet in 1942. She was torpedoed by a lone G4M during the Battle of Saipan, which killed two men and necessitated repairs at Pearl Harbor. She was damaged on 27 November 1944 by a kamikaze near Leyte Gulf which hit between her Number 1 and Number 2 turrets, killing 31 of her men and wounding 30. On 7 April 1945, Maryland was struck by a kamikaze again, which landed onto a 20mm gun mount located on top of turret number 3. She suffered 30 dead and 36 wounded. Maryland was repaired and placed in reserve after the war until she was scrapped in 1959.

USS West Virginia (BB-48) was extensively damaged by as many as seven torpedoes, and two 800 kg bombs. The first bomb hit the port side and penetrated the superstructure deck, causing extensive damage to the casemates below. Secondary explosions of the ammunition stored in the casemates caused serious fires there and in the galley deck below them. The second bomb struck the rear superfiring turret roof; it penetrated but failed to explode. She sunk on her keel in shallow water at Pearl Harbor. West Virginia was raised and sent to Puget Sound for major reconstruction. She rejoined the Pacific fleet on 23 September 1944. During the Battle of Okinawa she was hit by a kamikaze "Oscar" that struck her superstructure deck, killing four men and wounding 23, but luckily the plane's bomb was a dud. After the war West Virginia was placed in mothball and scrapped in 1959.

USS North Carolina (BB-55) was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 on 15 September 1942, 150 miles southeast of Guadalcanal, the same spread of torpedoes which also hit and sank USS Wasp. She received emergency repairs at Tonga and proceeded to Pearl Harbor for permanent repairs. On 5 April 1945, while participating in the Okinawa campaign, she was hit by a 5-inch shell in a friendly fire accident during a massive kamikaze attack on the fleet, killing three and wounding 44. Today she serves in North Carolina as a battleship memorial museum.

USS Washington (BB-56) was damaged when she collided with USS Indiana during refueling maneuvers during the Marshall Islands campaign in 1944. The collision caused extensive damage to her bow. Repairs were made at Pearl Harbor. USS Washington never had a fatality on board nor damage taken from enemy action. She was scrapped in 1961.

USS South Dakota (BB-57) was grounded on an uncharted coral reef near Tonga while initially deploying to the South Pacific on 6 September 1942. After receiving temporary patches at Tonga, she steamed to Pearl Harbor for permanent repairs. During her participation in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, she was hit by one bomb during a dive bomber attack which landed on the roof of the main turret. Two men were killed and over 50 were wounded by fragments from the bomb. On 30 October 1942, while maneuvering to avoid a submarine contact, South Dakota collided with the destroyer Mahan, receiving significant damage that needed repairs in Nouméa.

During Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the ship lost power right as combat was initiated with a Japanese surface task force. South Dakota was illuminated by burning ships and fired upon by the Japanese task force, including battleship Kirishima. It is estimated she was hit by one 14", one 5", six 6", and eighteen 8" caliber shells. Most of the enemy shells were aimed at the ship's superstructure, thus not threatening the ship's survival. 40 men were killed and 180 wounded from this action. The ship returned to the states for repairs shortly afterwards.

During the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a D4Y dive bomber hit South Dakota with a 500 lb bomb, disabling a 40 mm mount, killing 24 and wounding another 77 men. After receiving repairs at Puget Sound, she rejoined the fleet. During the Okinawa campaign in 1945, she suffered her final wartime damage from an explosion that occurred while loading ammunition which killed three men. She was scrapped in 1962.

USS Missouri (BB-63): On 11 April, a low-flying kamikaze Zero, although fired upon, crashed on Missouri's starboard side, just below her main deck level. The starboard wing of the plane was thrown far forward, starting a gasoline fire at 5 inch Gun Mount No. 3. The battleship suffered only superficial damage, and the fire was brought quickly under control. The remains of the pilot were recovered on board the ship just aft of one of the 40 mm gun tubs. The dent made by the Zero in the Missouri's side remains to this day. Missouri was the only Iowa class ship which was damaged in the war. Today Missouri is a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, watching over the sunken USS Arizona.

Aircraft carriers (CV)

USS Lexington (CV-2) was hit by two armor piercing bombs and two torpedoes on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of Coral Sea. After several hours of fighting fires and suffering severe internal explosions caused by leaking gasoline vapors, the ship was abandoned and scuttled with a loss of 216 men.

USS Saratoga (CV-3) was hit and sent back for repairs multiple times during the war. Her first torpedo hit on 11 January 1942 killed nine men. She returned to active duty the day after the Battle of Midway ended. On 31 August 1942, a torpedo from I-26 sent her back to Pearl Harbor until November. On 21 February 1945, Saratoga was repeatedly hit by five bombs and three kamikaze aircraft in a three-minute span, killing 123 of her crew and wounding 192. She was sunk by Atomic testing during Operation Crossroads in 1946.

USS Yorktown (CV-5) was damaged during the Battle of Coral Sea by an armor piercing bomb which killed and wounded 66 men. She was promptly repaired in three days time and returned in time to fight the Battle of Midway. This time she was hit by two bombs and two torpedoes and left dead in the water with a severe list. Efforts to bring the ship home were dashed when Yorktown was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 on 7 June 1942.

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was damaged several times in the war. The first was during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, in which 74 men were killed and 95 wounded by dive bomber attacks, and again during the Battle of Santa Cruz when 44 crewmen died. After many close calls throughout the war, she was struck by a kamikaze Zero fighter on her forward elevator, killing 14 men. Enterprise was the most decorated ship in the history of the US Navy. She was scrapped in 1960.

On 15 September 1942, some 150 nautical miles southeast of San Cristobal Island, USS Wasp (CV-7) was struck by three torpedoes fired from Japanese submarine I-19 which hit the vicinity of the ship's gasoline and magazines. Wasp was rocked by several catastrophic explosions over the next few minutes and it quickly became apparent that her condition was beyond saving. The order to abandon ship was given ten minutes after the torpedoes hit. Wasp sank with the loss of 193 dead and 366 wounded.

USS Hornet (CV-8) was hit by multiple bombs, torpedoes, and damaged aircraft during the Battle of Santa Cruz on 26 October 1942 after repeated strikes by Japanese carrier aircraft. Although an effort was made to tow the ship to safety, further air attacks prompted her abandonment and scuttling. 140 sailors from Hornet died as a result of her sinking.

USS Essex (CV-9) was hit by a low flying kamikaze along the port edge of her flight deck on 25 November 1944. The kamikaze crashed among planes waiting for takeoff, causing extensive damage, killing 15 men and wounding 44. The ship resumed flight operations a few hours later. She was scrapped in 1975 after a prestigious career.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) was struck by a torpedo bomber during Operation Hailstone which killed 11 men. During raids on Luzon on 25 November 1944, Intrepid was hit by two kamikaze aircraft which left 66 men dead, sending the ship home for repairs. On 16 April 1945, a kamikaze aircraft dove through the flight deck, killing eight and wounding 21, but the ship was landing planes again within three hours. Today she is a museum ship in New York City.

USS Franklin (CV-13) was damaged by aircraft bombs on 19 March 1945, 50 miles south of Shikoku, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa. She survived over 40 huge explosions of her own munitions but was able to make it back to the states under her own power, despite suffering 798 killed and 487 wounded. Although repaired, the ship did not return to active service and was scrapped in 1969.

USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) was hit by two kamikazes on 21 January 1945. The first crashed through her flight deck and its bomb went off just above the hanger deck, setting afire several aircraft. Minutes later the second kamikaze struck the island superstructure, causing extensive damage and wounding or killing many high-ranking officers. The carrier suffered 143 killed and 202 wounded. She was scrapped in 1975 after a prestigious career.

USS Randolph (CV-15) was hit by a Japanese twin engine "Frances" type flying level on the starboard side. The plane impacted the edge of the flight deck 15 ft from the stern. The bomb load penetrated the hull and below the flight deck before exploding violently, killing 27 men. Pieces of the Japanese plane as well as the three bodies of its crew were scattered across the flight deck. Randolph was scrapped in 1975 after a prestigious career.

USS Lexington (CV-16) was struck by a torpedo bomber off Kwajalein on 4 December 1943, killing nine men. She was back in action by early March after repairs. On 5 November 1944, a kamikaze aircraft struck the ship's island, causing extensive damage and killing 50 men. Today she is a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas.

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes striking the carrier within 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Okinawa, killing 390 men and wounding 264. The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973.

USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast after being at general quarters all night. 102 crewmen were lost. Despite the losses, Wasp continued operations with 27 minutes of the strike. She was scrapped in 1973 after a prestigious career.

USS Hancock (CV-19): On 25 November 1944, a fire exploded an incoming kamikaze some 300 ft (90 m) above the ship, but a section of its fuselage landed amidships and burst into flames. On January 21, a plane returning from a sortie made a normal landing, taxied forward abreast of the ship's island and disintegrated in a blinding explosion that killed 50 men and wounded 75. On 7 April 1945, a kamikaze cartwheeled across the flight deck and crashed into a group of planes, while its bomb hit the port catapult causing a tremendous explosion, killing 62 and wounding 71. The ship was scrapped in 1977 after a prestigious career.

Aircraft carrier, light (CVL)

USS Independence (CVL-22) was attacked on 20 November 1943 by a group of aircraft low on the water. Six were shot down, but the aircraft launched at least five torpedoes, one of which hit the carrier's starboard quarter. Seriously damaged with 17 dead and 23 wounded, the ship steamed to Funafuti on 23 November for emergency repairs. Independence returned to San Francisco on 2 January 1944 for more permanent repairs. She survived the war and atomic bomb tests at Operation Crossroads to be scuttled off California in 1951.

USS Princeton (CVL-23) was off the Philippines when on 24 October 1944, shortly before 10:00am, she was attacked by a lone D4Y 'Judy' dive bomber which dropped a single bomb, striking the carrier between the elevators, and punching through the hangar before detonating. Although structural damage was minor, a fire broke out and quickly spread due to burning gasoline, thus causing further explosions.

USS Birmingham and USS Irwin approached and attempted to fight the fire and rescue crew members. A few hours later, a second, larger explosion shook the Princeton, possibly caused by an explosion of one or more bombs in the magazine. Birmingham suffered extensive damage to her superstructure and numerous casualties. Irwin was also damaged, but stayed close to rescue survivors.

By 16:00, the fires were out of control and the remaining personnel were evacuated. At 17:49, after being torpedoed by USS Reno, an enormous explosion destroyed the entire forward section and sent flames and debris up to 2,000 feet into the air. Princeton sank at approximately 17:50 with a loss of 108 men; however, 233 men were killed and 426 wounded on the USS Birmingham.

USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24): On 30 October 1944 off the Philippines, gunners on Belleau Wood shot down a kamikaze over the ship which fell on her flight deck aft, causing several fires and igniting ammunition in planes on deck awaiting take off. 92 men were killed during this attack. She survived the war to serve for a short time in the French Navy, then was sold for scrap in 1960.

USS Cabot (CVL-28): On 25 November 1944, Cabot had fought off several kamikaze when one, already flaming from hits, crashed into the flight deck on the port side, destroying the still-firing 20 mm gun platform, disabling the 40 mm mounts and a gun director. Another kamikaze crashed close aboard and showered the port side with shrapnel and burning debris. 62 men were killed or wounded, but she continued to maintain her station in formation and operate effectively. Temporary repairs were made. She served in the Spanish Navy after World War II for 22 years and was finally scrapped in 2002 after preservation attempts failed.

Aircraft carrier, escort (CVE)

USS Block Island (CVE-21) was torpedoed off the Canary Islands at 20:13 on 29 May 1944. U-549 had slipped undetected through her screen. The submarine put three torpedoes into the carrier before being sunk herself by depth charges. The carrier lost six men in the attack; the remaining 951 were picked up by the escort screen. This was the only American carrier sunk in the Atlantic during the war.

USS Sangamon (CVE- 26) was rearming at Kerama Retto during the battle of Okinawa on 4 May 1945, when at 19:55 a Ki-45 kamikaze crashed into the center of her deck; its bomb penetrated the flight deck and exploded in the hanger. Initial damage was extensive, fires broke out on the flight deck, the hangar deck, and in the fuel deck, communications from the bridge were lost within 15 minutes, and the ship was soon out of control.

By 20:15, however, steering control had been established, and the ship was brought back to a course which helped the crew fight the myriad fires scattered over the CVE. By 22:30, all fires were under control. The attack killed 46 and wounded 116.

USS Suwannee (CVE-27) was operating off Samar when at 07:40 on 25 October 1944, her task force "Taffy 1" was jumped by land-based planes from Davao in the first deliberate suicide attack of the war. After shooting down several kamikazes Suwanee was hit by an enemy plane at 08:04 about 40 feet forward of the after elevator.

The plane's bomb compounded the fracture when it exploded between the flight and hangar decks, tearing a 25-foot gash in the latter and causing a number of casualties. Within two hours, her flight deck was sufficiently repaired to enable the escort carrier to resume air operations.

Just after noon on 26 October, another group of kamikazes jumped "Taffy 1". A Zero crashed into Suwanee's flight deck at 1240 and careened into a torpedo bomber which had just been recovered. The two planes erupted upon contact as did nine other planes on her flight deck. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. The casualties for 25–26 October were 107 dead and 160 wounded.

USS Santee (CVE- 29) was sailing as part of "Taffy 1" off the northern coast of Mindanao on 25 October 1944 when at 07:40, a kamikaze managed to sneak over the formation and dove into the center of Santee, crashing through the flight deck and starting fires in the hanger deck. These fires were quickly brought under control and by 07:51 the ship was fully operational. 16 men were killed and 27 wounded.

Minutes later at 07:56, a torpedo fired from Japanese submarine I-56 struck the ship, causing flooding of several compartments and creating a 6° list to starboard. Emergency repairs were completed by 09:35 and the carrier had kept station with the other ships in the group.

USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) was operating off the Gilbert Islands, 24 November 1943 when she was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-175 around 05:10. The torpedo struck behind the after engine room, and detonated the ship's bomb magazine, causing a devastating explosion that engulfed the ship and sent shrapnel flying as far as 5,000 yards (4,600 m) away.

The entire task force was rocked by the explosion, but no other ships were significantly damaged. A mushroom cloud erupted, rising thousands of feet above the wreck of Liscome Bay. The detonation sheared off nearly the entire rear end of the carrier, killing everyone behind the forward bulkhead of the aft engine room. Both the hangar and flight decks were heavily damaged.

The forward part of the hangar was immediately engulfed in flames, igniting the few remaining planes on the flight deck. Planes fell off the carrier's deck. Steam, compressed air, and fire-main pressure were lost throughout the ship. Fires on the flight deck caused ammunition within the burning aircraft and anti-aircraft guns to detonate, further complicating matters. The gasoline-coated water surrounding Liscome Bay caught fire, hampering survivors' efforts to escape.

At 05:33, only 23 minutes after the explosion, Liscome Bay listed to starboard and sank; 53 officers and 591 enlisted men were killed, while 272 survived.

USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) was operating off the Philippines when on 5 January 1945 she was attacked by kamikazes. Two A6M Zeros headed for Manila Bay, evading anti-aircraft fire and strafing as they approached. The first plane hit at the base of the island superstructure, its bomb penetrating the deck and exploding in the hangar. The second plane hit the sea just a few yards from the carrier.

Fires were quickly extinguished and within 24 hours the ship was back in action. 22 men were killed and 56 wounded by this attack.

USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62) was operating off Okinawa when at 06:35, on 7 June 1945, after having maneuvered through typhoon weather, Natoma Bay was closed by an A6M Zero, broad on the port quarter and low on the water. Changing course, it came in over the stern, fired incendiary ammunition at the bridge, and on reaching the island structure, nosed over and crashed the flight deck.

The engine, propeller and a bomb tore a hole in the flight deck, 12 by 20 feet, while the explosion of the bomb damaged the deck of the forecastle and the anchor windlass beyond repair and ignited a nearby fighter.

Four of Natoma Bay's crew were wounded while one officer was killed. A second Zero was splashed by the ship's port batteries. The damage control party immediately extinguished the blaze and set about emergency repairs. The next strike was cancelled, but the following one, against Miayako Shima, took place as scheduled at 10:30.

USS St. Lo (CVE-63) was operating 60 miles east of Samar on the morning of 25 October 1944 as a part of "Taffy 3" when a huge Japanese task force of four battleships, seven heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and 19 destroyers appeared on the horizon. Leading the Japanese force was the super-battleship Yamato, the largest battleship of all time, which weighed more than all the ships of "Taffy 3" combined. "Taffy 3" was pitifully weak in comparison, boasting only six escort carriers, four destroyers, and four destroyer escorts.

Nevertheless, the Americans accepted battle and many of the escorting destroyers would valiantly sacrifice themselves to prevent the Japanese from sailing into Leyte Gulf where the bulk of transports for the Philippines invasion was. Throughout the battle, St. Lo would avoid damage from Japanese shells. After several hours of pursuit, the confused Japanese task force reversed course and retired from battle, much to the bewilderment of the Americans.

Just 90 minutes after the engagement ended with Japanese surface forces, "Taffy 3" was attacked by the first organized kamikaze attack of WWII. At 10:51, a A6M Zero kamikaze dove on White Plains but was hit by AA fire and turned towards St. Lo. The plane came homing in on the carrier from a low angle directly astern and crashed into the flight deck aft, its burning wreckage skidding across the flight deck while its 500lb bomb penetrated the flight deck to explode among rearming and refueling aircraft. A gasoline fire erupted, followed by six secondary explosions, including detonations of the ship's torpedo and bomb magazine. 

St. Lo was engulfed in flames and sank 30 minutes later. Of the 889 men aboard, 113 were killed or missing and approximately 30 others died of their wounds. St. Lo became the first major warship to sink as the result of a kamikaze attack.

USS White Plains (CVE-66) was sailing as a part of "Taffy 3" about 60 miles east of Samar on 25 October 1944 when a powerful Japanese task force surprised the outnumbered and outgunned Americans. The enemy formation included the Yamato, the heaviest battleship ever built, armed with 18.1 inch naval rifles. Yamato opened fire at 06:59 at an estimated range of 34,544 yards, targeting White Plains with her first four salvos. Yamato's third salvo was a close straddle landing at 07:04. One shell from this salvo exploded beneath the turn of White Plains port bilge near frame 142, near her aft (starboard) engine room. While the ship was not struck directly, the mining effect of the under-keel explosion severely damaged her hull, deranged her starboard machinery and tripped all of the circuit breakers in her electrical network.

Prompt and effective damage control restored power and communications within three minutes and she was able to remain in formation by overspeeding her port engine to compensate. Fortunately the black smoke resulting from the sudden loss of boiler intake air pressure had convinced the crews of Yamato and Nagato they had scored a hit and subsequently shifted their fire. White Plains 5 inch gun crew claimed six hits on heavy cruiser Chōkai. For the next two and a half hours, the Japanese force chased "Taffy 3" southward and subjected the escort carriers and their counterattacking screen to a heavy-caliber cannonade before miraculously giving up the pursuit and retiring from the Battle off Samar.

The retreat by Kurita's surface force, however, did not end the ordeal for White Plains and her fellow warships. After a 90-minute respite, they suffered harassment from a different quarter. At 10:50 hours, a formation of nine Japanese Navy Zero kamikaze planes attacked in the first organized suicide attack of the war. Two of them singled out White Plains as their victim. Her antiaircraft gunners responded, hitting one of the intruders, which immediately changed course and crashed into USS St. Lo, which eventually sank. The other aircraft continued on toward White Plains, but her antiaircraft guns finally brought it down yards astern, scattering debris all over the ship's deck and sides, but causing only 11 relatively minor casualties.

After the battle, White Plains was repaired and returned to service to ferry fighters to Okinawa. After the war she participated in Operation Magic Carpet.

USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) was steaming about 60 miles east of Samar before dawn 25 October 1944 as a part of "Taffy 3" when a huge Japanese surface task force of battleships and cruisers came across the much weaker American force of escort carriers and destroyers.

As the trailing ship in the escort caravan, Kalinin Bay came under intense enemy shell fire. Though partially protected by chemical smoke, a timely rain squall, and valiant counterattacks of screening destroyers and destroyer escorts, she took the first of 15 direct hits at 07:50. Fired from an enemy battleship, the large caliber shell (14 inch or 16 inch) struck the starboard side of the hangar deck just abaft the forward elevator.

By 08:00, the enemy cruisers, which were steaming off her port quarter, closed to within 18,000 yards. Kalinin Bay gamely responded to their straddling salvos with rapid fire from her single 5 inch gun, which only intensified the enemy fire. Three 8 inch, armor piercing projectiles struck her within minutes of each other. At 08:30, five enemy destroyers steamed over the horizon off her starboard quarter. The closing ships opened fire from about 14,500 yards, and, as screening ships engaged the cruisers and laid down concealing smoke, Kalinin Bay shifted her fire, trading shots with Japan's Destroyer Squadron 10.

Many salvos exploded close aboard or passed directly overhead; and, though no destroyer fire hit Kalinin Bay directly, she took ten more 8 inch hits from the now obscured cruisers. One shell passed through the flight deck and into the communications area, where it destroyed all the radar and radio equipment.

At 09:15, the enemy destroyers, which were kept at bay by the daring and almost single-handed exploits of USS Johnston. The enemy cruisers broke off action and turned northward at 0920. At about 09:30, as the enemy ships fired parting salvos and reversed course northward, Kalinin Bay scored a direct hit amidships on a retreating destroyer. Five minutes later, she ceased fire and retired southward with the surviving ships of Taffy 3.

Just a 90 minutes after the Japanese fleet turned away, "Taffy 3" came under attack from kamikaze planes. Four diving A6M Zeros attacked Kalinin Bay from astern and the starboard quarter. Intense fire splashed two close aboard, but a third plane crashed into the port side of the flight deck, damaging it badly. The fourth hit destroyed the aft port stack. Though Kalinin Bay suffered extensive structural damage during the morning's furious action, she counted only five dead among her 60 casualties. Following her repairs, the ship served as a replenishment carrier and eventually in "Magic Carpet".

USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) was supporting the invasion of Saipan when on 17 June 1944 when at 18:52, a Japanese bomber made a run for Fanshaw Bay, dropping a 250 lb bomb as it flew 1,500 ft above the carrier. The bomb penetrated into her aft aircraft elevator, and detonating within the hangar bay, some 5 ft below the flight deck. Shrapnel was launched through the hangar, instantly killing eleven men who had taken up position forward of the elevator. The blast had enough force to rupture a fire main, sever electrical cables, and even eject depth charges from the bomb bays of the Avengers stored within the hangar deck. In addition, several fires were kindled, total steering control was lost, and the ship acquired a 3° list to the port.

Although the fires were quickly put under control by the crew, several of her aircraft were compelled to land on other carriers as a result of the blazes. The ship suffered 14 dead and 23 wounded from the attack. Fanshaw Bay retired from operations and proceeded to Pearl Harbor for a long period of repairs. She returned to duty in September.

On 25 October 1944 while sailing as a component of "Taffy 3" off Samar, Fanshaw Bay's task force came into direct contact with a much more powerful Japanese task force of several battleships and cruisers. Fanshaw Bay launched as many planes as possible to harry the Japanese ships while fleeing to the safe concealment of rain squalls. At 7:50, four 8 inch shells made impact with her hull, with another two missing just in front of her bow. One shell penetrated through a ventilator, killing two men as it tore into the carrier. Another shell passed under one of her Bofors guns, tearing the face off of one of her crew. Deflected by the gun's shield, the shell ricocheted over her flight deck. Another shell destroyed her catapult track, and resulted in a small explosion within her flag office.

Four small fires were kindled by these shells, but they were quickly put under control, along with a minor issue with flooding. Although four men were killed in the attack, her operational capability was not significantly compromised. Rather, Fanshaw Bay's own single 5 inch gun responded by firing against one of the leading Japanese cruisers, landing at least five hits against its superstructure. Despite the addition of smoke screens, and the heroic defense of her escorts, by 08:55, the Japanese had already closed the distance to only 6.25 miles. During the intervening period, the Japanese shells had sparked a series of fires, which the damage control parties struggled to contain, and the situation seemed to be deteriorating. She was also forced to dodge torpedo attacks launched by the Japanese destroyer screen.

Fortunately for the crew of Fanshaw Bay, the Japanese turned and retired from battle having lost several ships themselves. During the action Fanshaw Bay suffered four killed and four wounded, but the damage was not threatening to the hull of the ship. She would finish the war, later participating in "Magic Carpet".

USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) had been dodging shells from Japanese cruisers off Samar on the morning of 25 October 1944 when her task force "Taffy 3" was hit by suicide planes. One A6M Zero rolled into a dive, crashed into the port catwalk and fell into the sea. The kamikaze punctured more than 100 holes in the bulkheads, doors, and gasoline lines. One man was killed and four were wounded. Damage was minimal and the ship stayed in action.

On 7 January 1945, the ship was targeted by a Ki-43 "Oscar" kamikaze at 18:57. The enemy plane crashed through the port side at the waterline amidships tearing a hole in the ship’s side approximately 20 feet long and nine feet high. An explosion and large fire flared up simultaneously with a hit by a 5-inch round from one of the other ships, which burst close to the carrier's bow below a gun sponson, killing and wounding several men. The attack killed 16 men and wounded another 37. The ship was sent home for repairs but eventually rejoined the fight against Japan.

USS Gambier 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.

Around 08:20, Gambier Bay was severely damaged by a shell hit which flooded her forward engine room, cutting her speed in half. While most US accounts report this as an 8 inch shell from the Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma, Japanese sources report it was more likely a damaging near-miss from Yamato as both Yamato and Kongō claimed hits on an aircraft carrier at this time but Yamato had the shorter range and a better target angle.

Gambier Bay was soon dead in the water as the battleship Yamato closed to point blank range. Yamato is clearly seen in the background of photographs taken during the attack on "Taffy 3". Fires raged through the riddled escort carrier, and she capsized at 09:07 and sank at 09:11. The majority of her nearly 800 survivors were rescued two days later by landing and patrol craft dispatched from Leyte Gulf. Sharks killed many drifting crew members. Gambier Bay was the only US Navy aircraft carrier to be sunk by surface naval gunfire during WWII. She lost 147 of her crew.

USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) was operating off Luzon on 8 January 1945 when at 07:46 a Ki-43 Oscar plunged down towards the carrier. The aircraft came under heavy anti-aircraft fire but it continued aiming directly for the carrier's bridge.

Perhaps as a result of the concentrated fire, it then plunged down, striking below the bridge at the waterline, tearing a 9 ft by 17.5 ft hole, destroying the junior officers' quarters. A brief gasoline fire broke out, which was quickly put under control. A more pressing concern was flooding, which was accentuated by the ship's turn.

Her gasoline system was inoperative, and her bow sank 7 ft below design specifications. Remarkably, no one was killed, and only three crewmen were wounded. Kadashan Bay would have to retire for repairs before finishing the war.

USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) was hit by a kamikaze attack south of Mindoro, Philippine Islands, on 4 January 1945. At 17:12, a Yokosuka P1Y penetrated the screen undetected and made for Ommaney Bay, approaching directly towards the ship's bow. The enemy plane's approach was partially concealed by the blinding glare of the sun. The plane sliced across the superstructure with its wing, collapsing it onto the flight deck. It then veered into her flight deck on the forward starboard side. Two bombs were released; one of them penetrated the flight deck and detonated below, setting off a series of explosions among the fully gassed planes on the forward third of the hangar deck. The second bomb passed through the hangar deck, ruptured the fire main on the second deck, and exploded near the starboard side.

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. Destroyer escorts found it difficult to assist Ommaney Bay, because of the intense heat, the ammunition going off, and the real possibility that a catastrophic detonation could be triggered by the blaze.

At 17:45, wounded crew began to be taken off the ship, and by 17:50 the entire topside area had become untenable. In addition, the stored torpedo warheads threatened to detonate at any time. The order to abandon ship was given. Captain Young was the last man to evacuate the burning wreck. At 18:18, the torpedoes stored in the aft end of the ship finally detonated, collapsing the flight deck and launching debris onto the destroyers who were rescuing survivors. Two crewmen from the USS Eichenberger were struck and killed by airborne debris. At 19:58 the carrier was scuttled by a torpedo from the destroyer USS Burns, taking with her 95 men. Seven survivors were killed by a kamikaze attack a few days later on USS Columbia.

USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) was operating off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, on 21 February 1945 when her task force was hit by kamikazes. Despite the heavy gunfire, a kamikaze approached Bismarck Sea from the starboard side at a low angle, which the anti-aircraft guns could not depress sufficiently to fire at. The plane plowed in under the first 40mm gun (aft), crashing through the hangar deck and striking the ship's magazines.

The fire was nearly under control when about two minutes later, a second plane, likely attracted by the ship's glow against the darkness, struck the aft elevator shaft, exploding on impact, killing the majority of the fire-fighting party and destroying the fire fighting salt-water distribution system, thus preventing any further damage control.

At 19:00, the crew assembled at their "abandon ship" locations, and the engines were cut. Captain John L. Pratt issued the order to abandon ship at 19:05. As the crew abandoned ship, a large explosion, likely from the detonation of the torpedoes within the hangar deck, rocked the ship. This explosion tore much of the aft-end of the ship to shreds, and she quickly acquired a list to the starboard. At 20:07, the ship's island detached from the hull and slid into the water. Two hours after the dual kamikaze attacks, at 21:15, Bismarck Sea sank with the loss of 318 men, the last US Navy aircraft carrier to be lost during World War II.

Heavy cruiser (CA)

USS Pensacola (CA-24) was sailing on 29 Nov. 1942 with TF 67 to intercept a Japanese destroyer-transport force expected off Guadalcanal the next night. Just before midnight of the 30th, the American ships transited Lengo Channel and headed past Henderson Field on Guadalcanal as the Japanese task group steamed on a southerly course west of Savo Island to enter "Ironbottom Sound".

In the Battle of Tassafaronga that followed, American destroyers launched torpedoes as the enemy range came within 5 miles of Pensacola′s cruiser formation. Now gun flashes, tracers, and star shell candles stained the black inky darkness. Pensacola turned left to prevent collision with two damaged American ships ahead of her.

Silhouetted by the burning American cruisers, she came into the Japanese line of fire. One of 18 torpedoes launched by Japanese destroyers hit her below the mainmast on the portside. Her engine room flooded, three gun turrets went out of commission, and her oil tanks ruptured to make a soaked torch of her mast.

The oil-fed flames engulfed Pensacola's main deck aft where ammunition exploded. Only supreme effort and skillful damage control by her men saved the ship. The fire punctuated by the frightful explosion of 8 inch projectiles in her Number 3 turret gradually subsided. Pensacola made steady progress toward Tulagi. She arrived there still aflame. After 12 hours the last fire was quenched. Her dead numbered 125 men and 67 men were wounded. She would be out of action for several months.

On 17 Feb. 1945 Pensacola was bombarding Iwo Jima when she was hit enemy gun batteries on shore which killed 19 men and wounded 119. Despite the damage she was temporarily repaired and resumed bombardment and counter-battery fire of enemy positions. Pensacola would finish the war and survived Operation Crossroads to be sunk as target ship in 1948.

USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) was sailing with TF 64 on the night of 11 Oct. 1942 to intercept a Japanese resupply convoy headed for Guadalcanal. The American task force sent up a surprise ambush in the dark of night to "cross the T" and inflict several losses to the Japanese in the resulting Battle of Cape Esperance.

During the battle, Salt Lake City fired on multiple Japanese ships scoring many hits. Kinugasa and Salt Lake City exchanged fire with each other, each hitting the other several times, causing minor damage to Kinugasa and damaging one of Salt Lake City's boilers, reducing her speed.

Salt Lake City would spend the next four months undergoing repairs and replenishment at Pearl Harbor. She would take part in an operation to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing their island garrisons on Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutians. Operating with TF 8, contact was made with Japanese ships on 26 Mar. 1943 leading to the Battle of the Komandorski Islands.

Despite being outnumbered two to one, the Americans pressed their attack, hoping to get shots at transports. The enemy responded by opening fire at 20,000 yards. The ensuing battle was a retiring action on the part of the Americans, for the Japanese foiled their attempt to get to the auxiliaries. Salt Lake City received most of the attention and soon received two hits, one of them amidships, mortally wounding two men, but she responded with very accurate fire.

Her rudder stops were carried away, limiting her to 10° course changes. The starboard seaplane caught fire and was jettisoned. Another hit soon flooded forward compartments. Under cover of a thick smoke screen and aggressive torpedo attacks by the destroyers, the American cruisers were able to make an evasive turn, which for a while allowed the range to open. Salt Lake City soon began taking hits again and her boiler fires died one by one. Salt water had entered the fuel oil feed lines. There was now cause for grave concern; she lay dead in the water, and the Japanese ships were closing fast. Luckily, she was hidden in the smoke, and the enemy was not aware of her plight.

The destroyers charged the Japanese cruisers and began to draw the fire away from the damaged Salt Lake City. Her engineers purged the fuel lines and fired the boilers. With fresh oil supplying the fires, she built up steam and gained headway. Salt Lake City would be repaired and participated in several more campaigns in the war, earning 11 battle stars for its service. Like her sister, she was sunk as a target ship in 1948.

USS Northampton (CA-26) was operating with a cruiser-destroyer force on 30 Nov. 1942 to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing their garrison on Guadalcanal. During the Battle of Tassafaronga, Northampton along with four additional cruisers and four destroyers all opened fire on an unsuspecting Japanese task force of eight destroyers. The Japanese did not return fire for several minutes as the Americans stunning cannonade scored many hits and sinking one destroyer; Takanami.

The Japanese destroyers began laying a smoke screen and launched more than 45 "Long Lance" torpedoes towards the American column. Four of the five American cruisers were hit by torpedoes, killing hundreds of men. Northampton which was the last ship in the column was hit by two torpedoes most likely launched from Kawakaze. One hit 10 feet below the waterline abreast the after engine room, and four seconds later, the second hit 40 feet further aft, ripping away decks and bulkheads. The after engine room flooded, three of four shafts ceased turning, and flaming oil sprayed over the ship; she took on water rapidly and began to list.

Three hours later, as she began to sink stern-first, she had to be abandoned. So orderly and controlled was the process that loss of life was surprisingly light. 50 men were killed during the battle. Most of the survivors were picked up within an hour by destroyers of Task Force 67. About 40 crewmen spent the rest of the night in two life rafts.

USS Chester (CA-27) had been bombarding Taroa Island on 1 Feb. 1942 when she came under heavy air attack from land based dive bombers. The ship was hit with a 135lb bomb in the well deck which killed 8 and wounded 38. The ship returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs.

While cruising in support of the operations in the Solomons, specifically north of the New Hebrides Islands, Chester was hit by a torpedo from I-176 on the starboard side, amidships on 20 October which killed 11 and wounded 12. She returned to Espiritu Santo under her own power for emergency repairs on 23 October.

Chester would earn 11 battle stars for her service in WWII. The ship would be scrapped in 1959 after years in mothball.

USS Louisville (CA-28) was operating with TF 38 on 5 Jan. 1945 off Lingayen Gulf when she was hit by a kamikaze which crashed into the No. 2 8-inch gun turret killing 1, wounding 17 including the Captain and knocking the turret out of commission. A second kamikaze hit the ship the next day on 6 Jan. 1945, crashing into the starboard side signal bridge, and fatally injuring Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler commander of cruiser Division 4. 42 crewmen were killed and 125 wounded by the attack. Despite the damage Louisville continued bombarding enemy positions and shot down several planes before she put in for repairs.

The ship rejoined the fleet in time for the battle of Okinawa. On 5 Jun. 1945, she was again hit by a kamikaze (initially identified as a friendly plane). Four twin 20 AA cannon opened up to set the kamikaze ablaze prior to hitting Louisville which killed eight sailors on a quad 40 mm AA gun mount, injured 45 sailors, bent the number 1 smoke stack, cut Louisville's seaplane off and left only the pontoon on the catapult. Louisville was back on the gun line by 9 June.

She survived the war to be scrapped in 1959. She was awarded 13 battle stars for her WWII service.

USS Chicago (CA-29) was patrolling the waters just south of Savo Island on the night of 10 Aug. 1942 when at 01:43 flares dropped from Japanese planes illuminated Chicago in the dark night, giving her position away to a Japanese surface task force of 5 heavy and 2 light cruisers which had managed to sneak into firing range undetected.

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. A second torpedo hit but failed to explode, and a shell hit the cruiser's mainmast, killing two crewmen. Chicago steamed west for 40 minutes away from the battle to tend her torpedo damage.

After repairs in San Francisco, Chicago returned to the theater of combat. On 29 Jan. 1943 while escorting a convoy south of Guadalcanal her task force came under repeated air attacks from Japanese G4M and G3M torpedo bombers in what would be known as the Battle of Rennell Island.

During the attacks, two burning Japanese planes silhouetted the American ships, providing enough light for further torpedo runs; at 19:38 two hits on Chicago caused severe flooding and loss of power. The ship came to a dead stop. In pitch darkness, Louisville managed to take the crippled Chicago under tow and slowly headed south, away from the battle area, escorted by the rest of the task force.

The next morning of 30 Jan, the fleet tug Navajo took over the tow job from Louisville, which was accomplished at 08:00. At 16:00 eleven G4M torpedo bombers launched an attack on the damaged cruiser. Although sustaining several losses, the G4M bombers managed to hit Chicago with four torpedoes at 16:24; one forward of the bridge and three others in her engineering spaces.

Captain Ralph O. Davis gave the order to abandon ship shortly before Chicago sank stern first 20 minutes later taking 62 of her crew with her, most of them killed by the torpedo detonations. Escorting ships rescued her 1,049 survivors.

USS Houston (CA-30) and her task force were sailing to intercept a Japanese invasion convoy bound for Makassar on 4 Feb. 1942 when she became the target of an enemy aerial bomb that put Turret 3 out of commission, killing 48 men and wounding 20. Houston subsequently sought refuge at Tjilatjap to work on repairs and to tend to wounded sailors.

Receiving word that the major Japanese invasion force was approaching Java protected by a formidable surface unit, Houston sailed on 26 Feb. 1942 with a task force of one other heavy cruiser, three light cruisers and ten destroyers to intercept. The Japanese force consisted of 2 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 14 destroyers and 10 transports. Both sides sighted each other at 16:00 on 27 Feb. and opened fire soon after closing range; marking the start of the Battle of Java Sea.

Poor accuracy affected both sides, but the Allied fleet took more damage and was unable to attack the Japanese transports. At 18:00 the Allied force disengaged having lost several ships with no success attacking the transports. After dispatching all remaining destroyers back to Surabaya, the Allied task force commander attempted to evade the Japanese escort group but at 23:00 encountered the enemy warships again.

The Allied flagship and another cruiser were sunk by torpedoes leaving Houston, and HMAS Perth alone. Both ships managed to make it to Tjilatjap on 28 Feb, but were unable to resupply or refuel completely. While attempting to navigate through the Sunda Strait the two cruisers ran into a Japanese invasion task force with 5 cruisers and 12 destroyers around 23:30.

During the desperate battle the two cruisers managed to sink and ground 4 enemy transports and inflicted damage on 4 other warships, but Houston and Perth were both severely outnumbered and fought a fierce battle at close range with the Japanese. At midnight, Perth attempted to force a way through the destroyers, but was hit by four torpedoes in the space of a few minutes, then subject to close range gunfire until sinking at 02:40 on 1 Mar.

Houston was engaged on all sides at ranges never greater than 5000 yards, taking many hits including a hit on the bridge which killed the captain. After being struck with two torpedoes, with Japanese destroyers were firing less than 1500 yards away with cannon and machine guns, the order to abandon ship was given. She rolled on her side and went down at 03:00 after receiving a final torpedo hit. 693 men went down with Houston while 368 survived the sinking to become prisoners of the Japanese. 77 more of Houstons crew would die while in captivity.

USS New Orleans (CA-32) was sailing on 30 Nov. 1942 as part of a task force to interpret Japanese destroyers resupplying Guadalcanal. The two sides clashed in the Battle of Tassafaronga.

When the flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which detonated the ship's forward magazines and gasoline tanks. The blast severed the ship's entire bow forward of turret two. The bow twisted to port, damaging the ship's hull as it was wrenched free by the ship's momentum, and sank immediately off the aft port quarter. Everyone in turrets one and two perished. New Orleans was forced into a reverse course to starboard and lost steering and communications. A total of 183 men were killed.

With one quarter of her length gone, slowed to 2 knots, and damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor near daybreak on 1 Dec. The crew camouflaged their ship from air attack, jury-rigged a bow of coconut logs, and worked clearing away wreckage. Eleven days later, New Orleans sailed stern first to avoid sinking to Sydney, Australia, arriving on 24 Dec. While docked in Sydney, the damaged propeller was replaced and other repairs were made including the installation of a temporary stub bow. On 7 March 1943, she left Sydney for Puget Sound, sailing backward the entire voyage, where a new bow was fitted with the use of Minneapolis' No. 2 Turret. All battle damage was repaired and she was given a major refit.

New Orleans would finish there war with 17 battle stars for her service in WWII, among the highest in the US Navy. She spent her final days in the navy transporting prisoners of war back home. The ship was scrapped in 1959.

USS Portland (CA-33) was among a force of five cruisers and eight destroyers under Daniel J. Callaghan on the night of 12 Nov. 1942 which steamed to counter an approaching Japanese force. They spotted a Japanese force of two battleships, one cruiser and eleven destroyers and immediately opened fire, sinking the Japanese destroyer Akatsuki. Shortly thereafter, Portland was struck by a torpedo fired by either the destroyer Inazuma or the destroyer Ikazuchi at 01:58, causing heavy damage to her stern. 

The torpedo struck the starboard side, which blew off both inboard propellers, jammed the rudder five degrees to starboard, and jammed her Number Three turret in train and elevation. A four degree list was quickly corrected by shifting ballast, but the steering problem could not be overcome and the ship was forced to steam in circles to starboard. The blast disrupted her steering column, forcing her to steer in a circle. 

At the end of her first circle, she fired on the battleship Hiei, with her forward turrets. The Japanese ship returned fire, but all salvos passed over the cruiser. In the four six-gun salvos returned by Portland, she succeeded in starting fires in the Japanese ship. At dawn, she was one of three U.S. ships still too damaged to withdraw on her own power. Then again at 06:30, still circling, Portland opened fire on the abandoned hulk of the destroyer Yūdachi at a range of 6 miles. After the sixth salvo, Yūdachi exploded, rolled over, and sank within five minutes. She was eventually able to correct the steering problem and withdraw on her own. She suffered 18 killed, 17 wounded in the battle.

After six months of stateside repairs Portland rejoined the fleet in early June 1943. She would earn 16 battle stars for her service in WWII, and was sold for scrap in 1959.

USS Astoria (CA-34) on the morning of 7 Aug. 1942 entered the waters between Guadalcanal and Florida Islands in the southern Solomons. Throughout the day, she supported the Marines as they landed on Guadalcanal and several smaller islands nearby. The Japanese launched air counterattacks on the 7th–8th, and Astoria helped to defend the transports from those attacks.

On the night of 8/9 Aug, a Japanese force of seven cruisers and a destroyer under Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa sneaked by Savo Island and attacked the American ships. At the time, Astoria had been patrolling to the east of Savo Island in column behind Vincennes and Quincy. The Japanese came through the channel to the west of Savo Island and opened fire. The Japanese then divided into two separate groups and turned northeast, passing on either side of Astoria and her two consorts. The enemy cruisers began firing on that force at about 0150, and the Astoria began returning fire immediately. She ceased fire briefly because her commanding officer temporarily mistook the Japanese force for friendly ships but soon resumed shooting.

Astoria took no hits in the first four Japanese salvoes, but the fifth ripped into her superstructure, turning her into an inferno amidships. In quick succession, enemy shells put her No. 1 turret out of action and started a serious fire in the plane hangar that burned brightly and provided the enemy with a self illuminated target.

From that moment on, deadly accurate Japanese gunfire pounded her unmercifully, and she began to lose speed. Turning to the right to avoid Quincy's fire at about 0201, Astoria reeled as a succession of enemy shells struck her aft of the foremast. Soon thereafter, Quincy veered across Astoria's bow, blazing fiercely from bow to stern. Astoria put her rudder over hard left and avoided a collision while her battered sister ship passed aft, to starboard. As the warship turned, Kinugasa's searchlight illuminated her, and men on deck passed the order to No. 2 turret to shoot out the offending light. When the turret responded with Astoria's 12th and final salvo, the shells missed Kinugasa but struck the No. 1 turret of Chōkai.

Astoria lost steering control on the bridge at about 02:25, shifted control to central station, and began steering a zig-zag course south. Before she made much progress, though, the heavy cruiser lost all power. Fortunately, the Japanese chose that exact instant to withdraw. By 03:00, nearly 400 men, including about 70 wounded and many dead, were assembled on the forecastle deck.

Suffering from the effects of at least 65 hits, Astoria fought for her life. A bucket brigade battled the blaze on the gun deck and the starboard passage forward from that deck, and the wounded were moved to the captain's cabin, where doctors and corpsmen proceeded with their care. Eventually, however, the deck beneath grew hot and forced the wounded back to the forecastle. Bagley came alongside Astoria's starboard bow and, by 0445, took all of the wounded off the heavy cruiser's forecastle. Since it appeared that the ship could be saved, a salvage crew of about 325 able bodied men went back aboard Astoria. Another bucket brigade attacked the fires while the ship's first lieutenant investigated all accessible lower decks. A party of men collected the dead and prepared them for burial.

Nevertheless, the fire below decks increased steadily in intensity, and those topside could hear explosions. Her list increased, first to 10° and then 15°. Her stern lowered in the dark waters, and her bow was distinctively rising. All attempts to shore the shell holes, by then below the waterline due to the increasing list, proved ineffective, and the list increased still more. With the port waterway awash at noon, Commodore William G. Greenman gave the order to abandon ship. Astoria turned over on her port beam, rolled slowly, and settled by the stern, disappearing completely by 12:16. Not one man from the salvage crew lost his life. Officially, 219 men were reported missing or killed.

USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was operating off Okinawa on 31 Mar. 1945; when Indianapolis lookouts spotted a Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter as it emerged from the morning twilight and dived vertically towards the bridge. The ship's 20 mm guns opened fire, but within 15 seconds the plane was over the ship. Tracers converged on it, causing it to swerve, but the pilot managed to release his bomb from a height of 25 ft, then crashing his plane into the sea near the port stern.

The bomb plummeted through the deck, into the crew's mess hall, down through the berthing compartment, and through the fuel tanks before crashing through the keel and exploding in the water underneath. The concussion blew two gaping holes in the keel which flooded nearby compartments, killing nine crewmen. The ship's bulkheads prevented any progressive flooding.  Indianapolis, settling slightly by the stern and listing to port, steamed to a salvage ship for emergency repairs. Here, inspection revealed that her propeller shafts were damaged, her fuel tanks ruptured, and her water-distilling equipment ruined. But Indianapolis commenced the long trip across the Pacific, under her own power, to the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs.

After major repairs and an overhaul, Indianapolis received orders to undertake a top secret mission: to deliver enriched uranium and other important components of the Little Boy atomic device. After leaving San Francisco on 16 July, she arrived at Tinian Island on 26 July. After leaving Tinian the ship stopped at Guam where a number of her crew who had completed their tours of duty were relieved by other sailors. The ship left Guam headed for Leyte on 28 July, 1945.

At 00:15 on 30 July, Indianapolis was struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes, one in the bow and one amidships, from the Japanese submarine I-58. The explosions caused massive damage. Indianapolis quickly took on a heavy list and settled by the bow. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air and she sank. Some 300 of the 1,195 crewmen aboard went down with the ship.

Many of the survivors were wounded, and all suffered from lack of food and water. Exposure to the elements, dehydration from the hot sun during the day and hypothermia at night, as well as severe desquamation due to exposure to oily salt water, and frequent shark attacks slowly whittled down the survivors. Some killed themselves or other survivors in various states of delirium and hallucinations.

Navy command did not know of the ship's sinking until survivors were spotted in the open ocean three and a half days later. Only 316 of the nearly 900 men set adrift after the sinking survived. 2 more crewmen would die of their wounds.

USS Minneapolis (CA-36) was sailing on 30 Nov. 1942 as flagship of TF 67 which consisted of Fletcher, Perkins, Maury, Drayton, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Pensacola, Honolulu, Northampton, Lamson, and Ladner to intercept a Japanese task force consisting of 8 destroyers; six of them carrying drums full of supplies in a midnight attempt to reinforce and resupply Guadalcanal. At 23:21, Minneapolis opened fire on the destroyer Takanami, which quickly sank after several hits. At 23:27 after firing her ninth salvo, Minneapolis took two torpedo hits. One of the warheads hit her port side, exploding the aviation fuel storage tanks forward of Turret 1 and folding the bow down to over 70 degrees. The second torpedo hit portside aft and knocked out three of the ships four fire rooms, opening two of them to the sea. 37 of her crew were lost.

The ship was saved by skillful damage control work and was able to reach Tulagi where she was temporarily repaired by her own crew. From Aug. 1943 Minneapolis would go on to serve in every major American operation in the Pacific save Iwo Jima. For her service in WWII she was awarded 16 Battle Stars.

USS San Francisco (CA-38) was protecting unloading transports near Lunga Point, Guadalcanal on 12 Nov. 1942 when a group of Japanese torpedo bombers attacked at 14:08.

At 1416, an already-damaged torpedo bomber dropped its torpedo off San Francisco's starboard quarter. 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. 16 men were killed, and 29 wounded. Control aft was demolished. The ship's secondary command post, Battle Two, was burned out but was reestablished by dark. The after anti-aircraft director and radar were put out of commission. Three 20 mm mounts were destroyed.

At about midnight on 13 Nov. 1942; San Francisco, in company with heavy cruiser USS Portland, the light cruisers Atlanta, Helena, and Juneau, and eight destroyers, entered Lengo Channel.

At 0125, a Japanese naval force was discovered about 27,000 yd to the northwest. Rear Admiral Callaghan's task group maneuvered to intercept in what became the first engagement in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. At 0148, in almost pitch darkness, San Francisco opened fire on an enemy cruiser 3,700 yd off her starboard beam. At 0151, she trained her guns on a small cruiser or large destroyer 3,300 yd off her starboard bow. Then in an attempt to locate other targets, San Francisco accidentally targeted Atlanta. San Francisco's gunfire caused extensive damage to Atlanta, killing Admiral Scott and most of Atlanta's bridge crew.

At about 0200, San Francisco trained her guns on Kirishima. At the same time, she became the target of Nagara off her starboard bow and of a destroyer which had crossed her bow and was passing down her port side. The enemy battleship joined the cruiser and the destroyer in firing on San Francisco whose port 5 in battery engaged the destroyer but was put out of action except for one mount. The battleship put the starboard 5 in battery out of commission. San Francisco swung left while her main battery continued to fire on the battleships which, with the cruiser and the destroyer, continued to pound San Francisco. A direct hit on the navigation bridge killed or badly wounded all officers, except for the communications officer.

Steering and engine control were lost and shifted to Battle Two which was soon also knocked out was out of commission by a direct hit from the port side. Control was again lost. Control was reestablished in the conning tower, which soon received a hit from the starboard side. Steering and engine control were temporarily lost, then regained. All communications were now dead. Soon thereafter, the enemy ceased firing. San Francisco followed suit and withdrew eastward along the north coast of Guadalcanal.

77 sailors, including Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young, had been killed, and 105 wounded in the nights action. The ship had taken 45 hits. Structural damage was extensive, but not fatal. No hits had been received below the waterline. Twenty-two fires had been started and extinguished. The ship reached San Francisco for repairs on 11 Dec. 1942. She would return to the Pacific by 26 Feb. 1943.

San Francisco was one of the Navys most decorated ships, being awarded 17 Battle stars for her service. She was scrapped in 1961.

USS Quincy (CA-39) While on patrol in the channel between Florida Island and Savo Island, in the early hours of 9 August, Quincy was attacked by a large Japanese naval force during the Battle of Savo Island.

Quincy had seen aircraft flares dropped over other ships in the task force, and had just sounded general quarters and was coming alert when the searchlights from the Japanese column came on. Quincy’s captain, Samuel N. Moore, gave the order to commence firing, but the gun crews were not ready. Within a few minutes, Quincy was caught in a crossfire between Aoba, Furutaka, and Tenryū, and was hit heavily and set afire. Quincy’s captain ordered his cruiser to charge towards the eastern Japanese column, but as she turned to do so Quincy was hit by two torpedoes from Tenryū, causing severe damage. 

Quincy managed to fire a few main gun salvos, one of which hit Chōkai’s chart room 20 ft from Admiral Mikawa and killed or wounded 36 men, although Mikawa was not injured. At 02:10, incoming shells killed or wounded almost all of Quincy’s bridge crew, including the captain. At 02:16, the cruiser was hit by a torpedo from Aoba, and the ship's remaining guns were silenced. Quincy  sustained many direct hits which left 370 men dead and 167 wounded. She sank, bow first, at 02:38, being the first ship sunk in the area which was later known as Ironbottom Sound.

USS Vincennes (CA-44) was patrolling as a screen off Savo Island for unloading transport ships on the night of 9 Aug. 1942 when at about 0145, lookouts spotted flares and star shells to the southward, accompanied by the low rumble of gunfire. The sound of the general quarters alarm soon rang throughout the ship and stirred her to action. Unbeknownst to the men manning the ships to the northward, a powerful enemy force was heading in their direction.

The first Japanese cruiser searchlight beams illuminated Vincennes's shortly after 0155, and the American cruiser opened fire with her main battery at the troublesome lights. Within a minute, however, Japanese shells bracketed the ship and Vincennes shuddered under the impact of Japanese eight-inch armor-piercing shells. The bridge, carpenter shop, "Battle II," and radio antenna trunks all were hit by the first salvo.

The ship reeled under the impact of a second salvo of direct hits which set fire to the volatile aircraft in Vincennes' hangar space, and the resultant flames became uncontrollable. A direct hit knocked the aft antiaircraft director overboard. At 02:00, Vincennes heeled to starboard in an attempt to evade enemy gunfire, only to be hit by Japanese torpedoes. One or two "Long Lance" torpedoes ripped into the ship's number 4 fireroom and put it out of action. In moments the report came "Both engine rooms are black and dead."

At 0210, the Japanese retired, leaving Savo Island and the burning hulks of three American cruisers in their wakes. As Vincennes' list increased to port, the order to abandon ship was given at 0230. Serviceable life jackets and rafts were broken out, and the crew began abandoning ship. 332 of her men would go down with her as she rolled over and sank 2.5 miles east of Savo Island at 02:50.

USS Canberra (CA-70) joined TF 38 in Oct. 1944, which was tasked with performing air raids on Okinawa and Taiwan, in preparation for the landings at Leyte. On 13 Oct. 1944, an air-dropped torpedo from a Japanese aircraft hit the cruiser below her armour belt. The explosion killed 23 personnel and exposed the engineering spaces to the ocean, stalling the ship. The ship was docked for repairs from Feb. until Oct. 1945.

Light cruiser (CL)

USS Raleigh (CL-7) was moored on the west side of Ford Island when the Japanese made their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. In the first attack wave a torpedo passed ahead and a second hit Raleigh portside amidships. The cruiser took such a list to port that it appeared she might capsize. As crew jettisoned topside weight to keep her upright, her gunners helped to destroy five Japanese planes. Several of her crew were wounded, but none were killed.

USS Concord (CL-10) was on a tour to survey the potential use of a number of southeast Pacific islands in national defense and commercial aviation when during this cruise, she suffered a gasoline explosion which killed 24 men including her executive officer, and caused considerable damage, which was repaired at Balboa, Panama.

USS Marblehead (CL-12) was attempting to intercept a Japanese invasion convoy in the Makassar Strait on 4 Feb. 1942 when her task force was attacked by 60 Japanese bombers. Marblehead successfully maneuvered through three attacks. After the third, an enemy plane spiraled toward the cruiser, but her gunners splashed it. The next minute a fourth wave of seven bombers released bombs at Marblehead. Two were direct hits and a third a near miss close aboard the port bow causing severe underwater damage. Fires swept the ship as she listed to starboard and began to settle by the bow.

Her rudder jammed, Marblehead, continuing to steam at full speed, circled to port. Her gunners kept firing, while damage control crews fought the fires and helped the wounded. By 1100, the fires were under control. Before noon the enemy planes departed, leaving the damaged cruiser with 15 dead or mortally wounded and 84 seriously injured. Marblehead underwent extensive repairs before being sent to the Atlantic theater for the rest of the war.

USS Savannah (CL-42) was providing gun support for US troops attacking Salerno Bay as a part of Operation Avalanche on 11 Sept. 1943 when her task force came under assault from the German Luftwaffe unit KG-100. Savannah was hit by a Fritz-X radio guided bomb at 10:00. The bomb pierced the roof of Turret 3, passed through three decks into the lower ammunition handling room, where it exploded, blowing a hole in her keel and tearing a seam in the cruiser's port side. For at least 30 minutes, secondary explosions in the turret and its ammunition supply rooms hampered firefighting efforts. Savannah's crew quickly sealed off flooded and burned compartments, and corrected her list. With assistance from the salvage tugs Hopi and Moreno; Savannah got underway under her own steam by 17:57 hours and steamed for Malta. She lost 175 crewman from the attack and ship would be out of action for 10 months.

USS Nashville (CL-43) was shelling Vila airfield on Kolombangara when on the night of 12 May, she suffered a powder charge explosion in one of her forward turrets, killing 18 and injuring 17. She returned to the states for two months of repairs and modernization. On 13 Dec. 1944, she was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island at 14:15. The plane smashed into the ships port main deck waist, both of its bombs went off on the deck and gasoline fires engulfed the area near the crash. Ammunition for 5 in, 40 mm, and 20mm cooked off causing more casualties. In this attack 135 men were killed and another 190 wounded. The ship would be sold to the Chilean Navy and would serve until 1985.

USS Boise (CL-47) was with the task force which on the night of 11–12 Oct. 1942, encountered a force of Japanese cruisers and destroyers to the west of Guadalcanal. In the engagement now known as the Battle of Cape Esperance, Boise was hit a number of times, twice by fire from a Japanese heavy cruiser from about 7,500 yards range. One hit exploded upon impact on her armor causing little damage. The other exploded in the 6 inch magazine located between Number I and II turrets causing a powder fire and flooding, putting Turrets I, II, and III out of action and causing a number of casualties including 107 killed.

Boise would be repaired and returned to a lengthy service with the Navy during WWII. 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.

USS Honolulu (CL-48) was damaged by a near miss bomb during the attack on Pearl Harbor, requiring repairs. The ship suffered no casualties during the raid. While operating as part of TF 67 off Kolombangara Island on 13 Jul. 1943 shortly after midnight, contact was made with an enemy cruiser-destroyer force. At 0110, Honolulu opened fire on a Sendai-class cruiser. After three salvos, the target burst into flame and was soon dead in the water. Honolulu shifted fire to an enemy destroyer, which was immediately hit and disappeared. At 0211, a torpedo struck the starboard side of Honolulu, blowing off her bow. Luckily the ship suffered no casualties during the battle. The task force then retired to Tulagi for temporary repairs, and then departed for the large naval base at Pearl Harbor. On 16 August, Honolulu arrived at Pearl Harbor for major repairs and a new bow. She then proceeded to the shipyard at Mare Island, near San Francisco, for more work.

On 20 Oct. 1944 she was screening the invasion force of Leyte when she was attacked by a Japanese torpedo bomber. She was hit on the port side, and once again suffered damage that required a return to the US for repairs. After the war, Honolulu would be mothballed and sold for scrap in 1959.

USS St. Louis (CL-49) engaged an enemy force on 12 Jul. 1942 consisting of the Japanese cruiser Jintsu and five destroyers in the Battle of Kolombangara. During the battle, which raged for over an hour, St. Louis was hit by a torpedo which twisted her bow but caused no serious casualties. The ship would be out of action until November 1942. On the 13 Jan. 1944, she arrived in the area between Buka and St. George Channel to support landing operations in the Green Islands, off of New Ireland. On the 14th, at 1945 her group was attacked by six D3A "Val" dive bombers; two of the planes closed on St. Louis. The first plane missed with all three bombs. The second plane scored a hit on the light cruiser. The bomb that hit penetrated the 40 mm clipping room near the No. 6 gun mount, and exploded in the midships living compartment. Twenty-three died and twenty were wounded. Repairs were completed by the end of the month, and in March, St. Louis resumed operations with her division. 

On 29 Nov. 1944, St. Louis was operating in Leyte Gulf when she was attacked by several kamikazes. A D4Y dove on St. Louis from the port quarter, and exploded with its bomb on impact. Fires broke out in the cruiser's hangar area and spaces. All crew members of 20 mm guns 7–10 were killed or wounded. At 11:46, there was still no CAP cover over the cruiser's formation, and at 1151, two more enemy planes, both burning, attacked St. Louis. The first was splashed off the port quarter, and the second drove in from starboard and crashed almost on board on the port side. A 20 ft section of armor belt was lost and numerous holes were torn in her hull. By 1152, the ship had taken on a list to port. At 1210, another kamikaze closed on St. Louis but was shot down less than 400 yards away. Sixteen men were lost on St. Louis and 43 wounded. By 1236, the cruiser was back on an even keel. Thirty minutes later, all major fires were out, and salvage work had been started. She would reach California for repairs towards the end of December. St. Louis would earn eleven battle stars for her service in WWII. After the war the ship was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and sunk in 1980 while being towed to the scrap yard.

USS Helena (CL-50) moored in Pearl Harbor when the base came under attack by Japanese carrier planes. She was mistaken for a battleship and targeted by Japanese torpedo bombers. A torpedo passed underneath Oglala and hit Helena amidships on the starboard side. The blast tore a hole in the hull that flooded the starboard engine and boiler rooms and severed wiring for the main and secondary guns. 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. Oglala was less fortunate than Helena, as the blast effect loosened hull plates on the minelayer and caused her to capsize. As Helena's anti-aircraft guns got into action, they helped to fend off further attacks from the second strike wave while other men worked to control flooding by closing the many watertight hatches in the ship.

Two days after the attack, Helena was moved into dry dock No. 2 in Pearl Harbor for an inspection and temporary repairs. Steel plates were welded over the torpedo hole and on 31 December, Helena was refloated. She got underway for Mare Island for permanent repairs and modifications on 5 Jan. 1942. In late July 1942 she would rejoin the fleet in time for Operation Watchtower. Helena would participate in many of the surface actions around Guadalcanal, sinking several Japanese ships and destroying many enemy planes. She would emerge through the campaign with negligible shell damage which killed one man.

On 6 Jul. 1943 Helena was operating as part of TF 68 which was engaging ten Japanese destroyers that were attempting to resupply garrison troops at Kula Gulf. At 01:57 the Americans opened up with radar directed fire, quickly sinking several enemy destroyers. As the American ships turned to engage a second group of destroyers at 02:03; Helena was hit on the port side below the forward most turret which caused a major explosion. The blast destroyed the No. 1 turret, tore open the hull almost to the keel, and severed the bow from the rest of the hull. The rest of the hull began to flood as the force of the blast collapsed bulkheads below turret No. 2. But even after the severe damage inflicted by the first torpedo, the aft main guns continued to fire, and the ship had not yet been fatally damaged. Two minutes after the first torpedo hit, the second and third torpedoes struck the ship in quick succession, much lower in the hull than the first had hit, as much as 15 ft below the waterline. This was below where the ship's belt armor might have reduced the scale of damage inflicted. These hit further aft in the machinery spaces, breaking the keel, flooding the forward engine and boiler rooms, and breaching bulkheads that allowed water into the aft engine room. The flooding disabled the ship's engines and left her immobilized and without electrical power. Another gaping hole had been blasted into the hull, which exacerbated the flooding caused by the first hit. It quickly became clear that Helena would not be able to survive. Two minutes after the third hit, the Captain gave the order to abandon ship.

With the keel having been broken by the second and third hit, the girders that supported the hull structure began to buckle, collapsing the entire structure amidships and breaking the hull in half. The center third of the ship quickly sank but the bow and stern remained afloat for some time before flooding caused them both to point upward as they filled with water. During the chaos of battle, it had not been known that Helena was hit and sinking by the other ships in her task force. At 02:30 it was quickly realized that Helena was not responding to radio messages and ships began to search for the missing cruiser. At 03:13, Radford's radar picked up a contact some 5,000 yd away, and confirmed it was Helena's bow pointing up out of the water. Nearly a thousand men were in the water, clinging to life rafts and waiting to be picked up by the destroyers, which reached the men at 03:41. In the course of the night's operations, Nicholas had picked up 291 while Radford had rescued 444.

A significant number of men were still in the water; some life rafts remained in the area, while a number of men had climbed onto the still floating bow or clung to pieces of floating wreckage. Other groups of men were pulled there by the current; as the men reached the coral reef that surrounded the island on 8 July, they were met by locals who helped pull the men to shore and put them in contact with the coastwatcher station. Out of a crew of almost 1,200; 168 men were killed, either during the battle or while the men were adrift.

USS Atlanta (CL-51) was sailing as a part of TF 67 on 12 Nov. 1942 with four additional cruisers and eight destroyers to meet an incoming Japanese surface force consisting of two battleships and eleven destroyers intending on bombarding Henderson Field. In total darkness; the two task forces streamed towards on another until at 01:48, Atlanta was illuminated by searchlights from Japanese battleship Hiei which was only 3,000 yards away, practically point blank range for the battleship.

The two sides began to open fire on one another and the battle quickly turned into a chaotic and confused close-range melee in the pitch black dark. During the wild fight, Atlanta, being exposed as the lead cruiser in the US formation was hit by several shells and took a torpedo hit to her port engine room, killing almost all power to the ship and leaving her guns inoperable. Right after being torpedoed, Atlanta drifted into the line of fire of San Francisco and took at least nineteen 8 inch shells from the friendly ship, killing Admiral Norman Scott and most of the bridge staff. Captain Jenkins survived the slaughter on the bridge and ordered the crew to began clearing debris, jettisoning topside weight to correct the list, reducing the volume of sea water in the ship, and tending the wounded.

As day broke, Atlanta was still without power and drifting about in the sound. She was taken under tow by a tugboat but by 14:00, Captain Jenkins decided the ship was beyond saving and ordered the abandonment of Atlanta. The ship was sunk by demolition charges by her own crew, going down at 20:15 on 13 Nov. 1942. She lies in 400 ft of water, 3 miles west of Lunga Point.

USS Juneau (CL-52) was engaged in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 Nov. 1942, firing on an enemy destroyer when she was hit by a torpedo on her port side from Amatsukaze causing flooding and a severe list. Juneau withdrew from the action, and after the melee was over proceeded to Espiritu Santo with other ships damaged in the nights action. She was steaming 800 yards off the starboard quarter of San Francisco, down by the bow and making a steady 13 kn when she was spotted by Japanese submarine I-26. At 11:00, two torpedoes were fired at San Francisco but missed and hit Juneau. One of the torpedoes stuck in the same spot Juneau had been hit earlier, setting off an enormous explosion which engulfed the entire ship, breaking her into two halves. She was gone in less than thirty seconds.

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. But over 100 of Juneau's crew had survived the sinking, and were left stranded in shark infested waters for over eight days before only 10 men were finally rescued. In total 687 of Juneau's crew died as a result of her sinking; including all five Sullivan brothers.

USS Columbia (CL-56) was struck by a kamikaze "Val" on 1 Jan. 1945 while operating in Lingayen Gulf. The plane hit the ship's aft quarter, and penetrated two decks before its bomb exploded killing 13 and wounding 44, and knocking out her rear turrets. Prompt and effective damage control prevented the fires from spreading and causing more explosions, allowing Columbia to remain on station.

On 9 Jan. 1945, she was hit again by a kamikaze "Tojo" fighter which crashed into the forward gun director gun mount, killing 24 and wounding 97 men. Again, Columbia's damage control teams jumped into action and kept the ship in action, able to resume her fire support despite the damage. Columbia would be awarded ten battle stars for her service in WWII.

USS Denver (CL-58) was operating in support of landings at Cape Torokina on 13 Nov. 1943 when at 04:55 she was hit by an air dropped torpedo in her starboard side. Twenty men were killed by the blast which knocked out all power and the ship took on a list. She was towed away to make temporary repairs. The ship would return to service in June 1944, awarded eleven battle stars for her service in WWII, and finally scrapped in 1960.

USS Birmingham (CL-62) was operating off Bougainville Island on 8 Nov. 1943 when her task force came under air attack by Japanese planes. She was hit by two bombs and a torpedo which blew a 30 foot hole into her port side, although she managed to shoot down all of her attackers. Two men were killed and 34 wounded.

On 24 Oct. 1944 while sailing with TF 38, Birmingham came to the assistance of the stricken carrier Princeton, coming alongside to help fight fires, when at 15:24, a magazine detonated on board Princeton causing extensive damage to Birmingham's superstructure. On board Birmingham 239 men were killed and 408 wounded during the attempt to save the carrier. Birmingham had to put in for repairs which were completed by Jan 1945. While operating off Okinawa on 4 May, 1945, Birmingham was hit by an "Oscar" from directly overhead which crashed through her main forward deck, its bomb exploding in the sick bay, killing everyone there. 51 were killed and 81 were wounded. The ship would finish WWII with nine battle stars. She was scrapped in 1959.

USS Biloxi (CL-80) was hit by a burning "Val" kamikaze dive bomber which crashed amidships at her port water line. The damage was minor and luckily the plane's bomb was a dud, but two men were injured in the attack.

USS Houston (CL-81) was operating with TF 38 which was conducting air strikes on Formosa when on 14 Oct. 1944 the task force was attacked by Japanese planes. Houston was targeted by four torpedo bombers, three of which were shot down but one managed to score a hit on the cruiser in the engine room, knocking out propulsive power to the ship. Houston was towed away from the battle area along with the cruiser Canberra. They came under a second torpedo bomber attack on the 16 Oct while still under tow. One of the enemy bombers hit Houston directly on the stern, causing flooding in the ships scout plane hanger. Despite this, the ship was able to remain afloat with excellent damage control and returned to the States for repairs. Houston would receive three battle stars for her service in WWII and was scrapped in 1959.

USS Reno (CL-96) was sailing with TF 38 east of the San Bernadino Strait on the night of 3 Nov. 1944 when she was targeted by Japanese submarine I-41. Reno was hit on her port side by two torpedoes, one of which was a dud. The other warhead detonated four decks below topside, killing 46 men and wounding several others. The ship lost all power and had to be towed over 1,500 miles to Ulithi where she received sufficient repairs to power herself home. She earned three battle stars for her WWII service.

Destroyer (DD)

USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) sunk after being bombed by Japanese aircraft off Tagoma Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7 April 1943.

USS Abner Read (DD-526) sunk by kamikaze attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 1 November 1944.

USS Barton (DD-599) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese warships off Savo, Solomon Islands, 13 November 1942.

USS Beatty (DD-640) sunk after being torpedoed by German aircraft off Cap Bougaroûn, Algeria, 6 November 1943.

USS Benham (DD-397) Sunk after being damaged by a torpedo from a Japanese warship off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 15 November 1942.

USS Blue (DD-387) scuttled after being torpedoed by the Japanese destroyer Kawakaze in Savo Sound, Solomon Islands, 22 August 1942.

USS Borie (DD-215) sunk as a result of damage received on the 1 November 1943 ramming of the German submarine U-405 in the North Atlantic, north of the Azores, 2 November 1943.

USS Bristol (DD-453) sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-371 off Cape Bougaroun, Algeria, 12 October 1943.

USS Brownson (DD-518) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, 26 December 1943.

USS Buck (DD-420) sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-616 off Salerno, Italy, 9 October 1943.

USS Bush (DD-529) sunk after being hit by three kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 6 April 1945.

USS Callaghan (DD-792) sunk after being hit by one kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 28 July 1945.

USS Chevalier (DD-451) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyer and damaged in a collision with USS O'Bannon (DD-450) off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 7 October 1943.

USS Colhoun (DD-801) sunk after being hit by four kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 6 April 1945.

USS Cooper (DD-695) sunk after being torpedoed in Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 3 December 1944.

USS Corry (DD-463) sunk by a mine off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.

USS Cushing (DD-376) sunk by gunfire from Japanese warships off Savo, Solomon Islands, 13 November 1942.

USS De Haven (DD-469) sunk after being bombed by Japanese aircraft off Savo, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1943.

USS Drexler (DD-741) sunk after being hit by two kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 28 May 1945.

USS Duncan (DD-485) sunk after being damaged by gunfire from Japanese off Savo, Solomon Islands, 12 October 1942.

USS Edsall (DD-219) sunk with all hands by Japanese warships south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 1 March 1942.

USS Evans (DD-552) seriously damaged by four kamikaze aircraft, 11 May 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Glennon (DD-620) sunk by a mine and gunfire from German shore batteries off Quineville, Normandy, France, 10 June 1944.

USS Gwin (DD-433) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyers in Kula Gulf, Solomon Islands, 13 July 1943.

USS Haggard (DD-555) seriously damaged by kamikaze aircraft, 29 April 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Halligan (DD-584) sunk after striking a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 26 March 1945.

USS Hammann (DD-412) sunk after being torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-168 north-east of Midway Island, 6 June 1942.

USS Henley (DD-391) sunk after being torpedoed by the Japanese submarine RO-108 off Cape Cretin, New Guinea, 3 October 1943.

USS Hoel (DD-533) sunk by Japanese warships off Samar, Philippine Islands, 25 October 1944.

USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) seriously damaged by an aircraft bomb and two kamikaze aircraft, 11 May 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Hull (DD-350) foundered during a typhoon in the Philippine Sea, 18 December 1944.

USS Hutchins (DD-476) seriously damaged by a Japanese suicide boat, 27 April 1945, in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Ingraham (DD-444) sunk after a collision in fog with the USS Chemung (AO-30) in the North Atlantic, 22 August 1942.

USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-578 off Cape May, New Jersey, 28 February 1942.

USS Jarvis (DD-393) sunk by Japanese aircraft south of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 9 August 1942.

USS Johnston (DD-557) sunk by Japanese warships off Samar, Philippine Islands, 25 October 1944.

USS Kidd (DD-661) damaged by Japanese "kamikaze" aircraft, 11 April 1945 off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

USS Laffey (DD-459) sunk by the Japanese battleship Hiei off Savo, Solomon Islands, 13 November 1942.

USS Lansdale (DD-426) sunk after being torpedoed by German aircraft off Cape Bengut, Algeria, 20 April 1944.

USS Leary (DD-158) sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-275 in the North Atlantic, 24 December 1943.

USS Leutze (DD-481) seriously damaged by one kamikaze aircraft, 6 April 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Little (DD-803) sunk after being hit by four kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 3 May 1945.

USS Longshaw (DD-559) Destroyed by Japanese shore batteries after running aground off Naha Airfield, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 18 May 1945.

USS Luce (DD-522) sunk after being hit by two kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 3 May 1945.

USS Maddox (DD-622) sunk after being bombed by German aircraft off Gela, Sicily, 10 July 1943.

USS Mahan (DD-364) sunk after being hit by three kamikaze aircraft in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 7 December 1944.

USS Mannert L. Abele (DD-733) sunk by kamikaze aircraft and glider bomb attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 12 April 1945.

USS Meredith (DD-434) sunk by Japanese aircraft near San Cristobal, Solomon Islands, 15 October 1942.

USS Meredith (DD-726) sunk by German aircraft after being damaged by a mine in the Bay of the Seine, Normandy, France, 9 June 1944.

USS Monaghan (DD-354) foundered during a typhoon in the Philippine Sea, 18 December 1944.

USS Monssen (DD-436) sunk by gunfire from Japanese warships off Savo, Solomon Islands, 13 November 1942.

USS Morris (DD-417) seriously damaged by kamikaze aircraft, 6 April 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Morrison (DD-560) sunk after being hit by four kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945.

USS Newcomb (DD-586) seriously damaged by three kamikaze aircraft, 6 April 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS O'Brien (DD-415) torpedoed 15 September 1942 by Japanese submarine I-15 north of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, and foundered off Samoa en route to base, 19 October 1942.

USS Parrott (DD-218) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair in a collision with the SS John Norton at Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 May 1944.

USS Peary (DD-226) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Darwin Harbor, Australia, 19 February 1942.

USS Perkins (DD-377) sunk in collision with HMAS Duntroon off Cape Vogel, New Guinea, 29 November 1943.

USS Pillsbury (DD-227) sunk with all hands by Japanese warships east of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, 1–4 March 1942.

USS Pope (DD-225) sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Java Sea, Netherlands East Indies, 1 March 1942.

USS Porter (DD-356) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-21 near Santa Cruz Island, east of the Solomon Islands, 26 October 1942.

USS Preston (DD-379) sunk by Japanese cruiser Nagara off Savo, Solomon Islands, 14 November 1942.

USS Pringle (DD-477) sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 April 1945.

USS Reid (DD-369) sunk after being hit by two kamikaze aircraft off Limasawa Island, Philippine Islands, 11 December 1944.

USS Reuben James (DD-245) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-562 south of Iceland, 31 October 1941.

USS Rowan (DD-405) sunk after being torpedoed by German motor torpedo boat off Salerno, Italy, 11 September 1943.

USS Shubrick (DD-639) seriously damaged by one kamikaze aircraft, 29 May 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Sims (DD-409) sunk by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7 May 1942.

USS Spence (DD-512) capsized during a typhoon in the Philippine Sea, 18 December 1944.

USS Stewart (DD-224) captured by the Japanese after being scuttled in a drydock at Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 2 March 1942.

USS Strong (DD-467) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyer off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 5 July 1943.

USS Sturtevant (DD-240) sunk by a mine off Marquesas Key, Florida, 26 April 1942.

USS Thatcher (DD-514) seriously damaged by one kamikaze aircraft, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Truxtun (DD-229) wrecked in a gale at Chamber's Cove, Newfoundland, 18 February 1942.

USS Tucker (DD-374) sunk by a mine in Segond Channel, New Hebrides, 4 August 1942.

USS Turner (DD-648) sunk by explosion off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 3 January 1944.

USS Twiggs (DD-591) sunk by a kamikaze aircraft after being torpedoed off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 June 1945.

USS Walke (DD-416) sunk by gunfire and torpedoes from Japanese warships off Savo, Solomon Islands, 14 November 1942.

USS Warrington (DD-383) foundered in a hurricane north of the Bahamas Islands, 13 September 1944.

USS William D. Porter (DD-579) sunk after being hit by one kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 10 June 1945.

USS Worden (DD-352) Wrecked off Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, 12 January 1943.

Destroyer, escort vessel (DE)

USS England (DE-635) seriously damaged by one kamikaze aircraft, 9 May 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.

USS Eversole (DE-404) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-45 east of Leyte, Philippine Islands, 28 October 1944.

USS Fechteler (DE-157) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-967 north-east of Oran, Algeria, 5 May 1944.

USS Fiske (DE-143) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-804 north of Azores, 2 August 1944.

USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-546 in the North Atlantic, 24 April 1945.

USS Holder (DE-401) scrapped after being torpedoed by German aircraft off Algiers, Algeria, 11 April 1944.

USS Leopold (DE-319) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-255 south of Iceland, 10 March 1944.

USS Oberrender (DE-344) damaged beyond repair by a kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 May 1945.

USS Rich (DE-695) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 8 June 1944.

USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) sunk by Japanese warships during the Battle of Leyte Gulf off Samar, Philippine Islands, 25 October 1944.

USS Shelton (DE-407) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine RO-41 off Morotai Island, 3 October 1944.

USS Underhill (DE-682) sunk by Japanese human torpedo north-east of Luzon, Philippine Islands, 24 July 1945.

Submarine (SS)

USS Albacore (SS-218) sunk after striking a mine north off Hokkaido, Japan, 7 November 1944.

USS Amberjack (SS-219) probably sunk by Japanese torpedo boat Hiyodori and Japanese subchaser No. 18 off Rabaul, New Britain Island, 16 February 1943.

USS Argonaut (APS-1) sunk by Japanese destroyers Maikaze and Isokaze off New Britain Island, 10 January 1943.

USS Barbel (SS-316) sunk by Japanese aircraft south-west of Palawan, Philippine Islands, 4 February 1945.

USS Bonefish (SS-223) sunk by Japanese warships in Toyama Wan, Honshu, Japan, 19 June 1945.

USS Bullhead (SS-332) sunk by Japanese aircraft north of Bali, Lesser Sunda Islands, 6 August 1945.

USS Capelin (SS-289) missing off Halmahera Island, December 1943.

USS Cisco (SS-290) sunk by Japanese warships and aircraft in the Sulu Sea, 28 September 1943.

USS Corvina (SS-226) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-176 south-west of Truk, Caroline Islands, 16 November 1943.

USS Darter (SS-227) stranded on Bombay Shoal, off Palawan, Philippine Islands, and destroyed to prevent capture, 24 October 1944.

USS Dorado (SS-248) probably sunk in error by US aircraft in the Caribbean Sea, 12 October 1943.

USS Escolar (SS-294) probably sunk after striking a mine in the Yellow Sea, 17 October 1944.

USS Flier (SS-250) sunk while on the surface by a mine in Balabac Strait, Philippine Islands, 13 August 1944.

USS Golet (SS-361) sunk by Japanese warships off north Honshu, Japan, 14 June 1944.

USS Grampus (SS-207) probably sunk by Japanese destroyers Minegumo and Murasame off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 5 March 1943.

USS Grayback (SS-208) sunk by Japanese aircraft in the East China Sea, 26 February 1944.

USS Grayling (SS-209) probably sunk by Japanese freighter Hokuan Maru west of Luzon, Philippine Islands, 9 September 1943.

USS Grenadier (SS-210) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Penang, 22 April 1943.

USS Growler (SS-215) probably sunk by Japanese warships in the South China Sea, 8 November 1944.

USS Grunion (SS-216) missing off Kiska, Aleutian Islands, at the end of July 1942. Probably sunk by the Japanese submarine I-25, 30 July 1942.

USS Gudgeon (SS-211) missing off the Marianas Islands, 18 April 1944.

USS Harder (SS-257) sunk by Siamese destroyer Pra Ruang off Caiman Point, 24 August 1944.

USS Herring (SS-233) sunk by Japanese shore batteries off Matsuwa Island, Kurile Islands, 1 June 1944.

USS Kete (SS-369) missing in the Central Pacific, 20 March 1945.

USS Lagarto (SS-371) sunk by Japanese mine-layer Hatsutaka in the Gulf of Siam, 3 May 1945.

USS Perch (SS-176) scuttled after being damaged by Japanese destroyers Sazanami and Ushio north of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 3 March 1942.

USS Pickerel (SS-177) missing off northern Honshu, Japan, 3 April 1943.

USS Pompano (SS-181) missing east of Honshu, Japan, 3 September 1943.

USS R-12 (SS-89) foundered during exercises off Key West, Florida, 12 June 1943.

USS Robalo (SS-273) sunk by an internal explosion or a mine off Palawan, Philippine Islands, 26 July 1944.

USS Runner (SS-275) missing off the Kuril Islands, 26 June 1943.

USS S-26 (SS-131) sunk after collision with submarine chaser PC-460 in the Gulf of Panama, 24 January 1942.

USS S-27 (SS-132) lost by grounding on a reef off St. Makarius Point, Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, 19 June 1942.

USS S-28 (SS-133) failed to surface during training exercises with the USCGC Reliance (WPC-150) off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 4 July 1944.

USS S-36 (SS-141) lost by grounding on Taka Bakang Reef, Makassar Strait, 20 January 1942.

USS S-39 (SS-144) lost by grounding south off Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago, 14 August 1942.

USS S-44 (SS-155) sunk by Japanese escort ship Ishigaki off Paramushiro, Kuril Islands, 7 October 1943.

USS Scamp (SS-277) probably sunk by Japanese patrol vessel off Tokyo Bay, Japan, 11 November 1944.

USS Scorpion (SS-278) missing in the western Pacific, 6 March 1944.

USS Sculpin (SS-191) sunk by Japanese destroyer Yamagumo off Truk, Caroline Islands, 19 November 1943.

USS Sealion (SS-195) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1941, and destroyed to prevent capture, 25 December 1941.

USS Seawolf (SS-197) sunk in error by destroyer escort USS Richard M. Rowell (DE-403) off Morotai, 3 October 1944.

USS Shark (SS-174) probably sunk by Japanese destroyer Yamakaze east of Menado, Celebes, 11 February 1942.

USS Shark (SS-314) sunk by Japanese destroyer Harukaze in Luzon Strait, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944.

USS Snook (SS-279) missing in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, area (possibly sunk by a Japanese submarine), April 1945.

USS Swordfish (SS-193) missing south of Kyushu, Japan, 12 January 1945.

USS Tang (SS-306) sunk by own torpedo off Formosa, 24 October 1944.

USS Trigger (SS-237) sunk by Japanese aircraft and warships in Nansei Shoto, Ryukyu Islands, 28 March 1945.

USS Triton (SS-201) sunk by Japanese destroyers north of Admiralty Islands, 15 March 1943.

USS Trout (SS-202) sunk by Japanese destroyer Asahimo south-east of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 29 February 1944.

USS Tullibee (SS-284) sunk by own torpedo north of Palau, Caroline Islands, 26 March 1944.

USS Wahoo (SS-238) sunk by Japanese aircraft and Japanese submarine chasers 15 and 43 in Soya Strait, Japan, 11 October 1943.

Mine layer (CM)

USS Miantonomah (CM-10) sunk by a mine off Le Havre, France, 25 September 1944.

Light mine layer (DM)

USS Gamble (DM-15) damaged by aircraft bombs off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 18 February 1945, and scuttled off Saipan, Mariana Islands, 16 July 1945.

USS Montgomery (DM-17) scrapped after being damaged by a mine off Palau, Caroline Islands, 17 October 1944.

Mine sweeper, high speed (DMS)

USS Emmons (DMS-22) sunk after being hit by five kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 6 April 1945.

USS Hovey (DMS-11) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 January 1945.

USS Long (DMS-12) sunk by kamikaze attack in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 January 1945.

USS Palmer (DMS-5) sunk by Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 7 January 1945.

USS Perry (DMS-17) sunk by a mine off Palau, Caroline Islands, 13 September 1944.

USS Wasmuth (DMS-15) sunk by explosion of depth charges during gale off Aleutian Islands, 29 December 1942.

Mine sweeper (AM)

USS Bittern (AM-36) Sunk by aircraft bombs at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1941.

USS Finch (AM-9) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 11 April 1942.

USS Minivet (AM-371) sunk by a mine in Tsushima Strait, Japan, 29 December 1945.

USS Osprey (AM-56) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 5 June 1944.

USS Penguin (AM-33) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guam, Marianas Islands, 8 December 1941.

USS Portent (AM-106) sunk by a mine off Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.

USS Quail (AM-15) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942.

USS Salute (AM-294) sunk by a mine off Brunei, Borneo, 8 June 1945.

USS Sentinel (AM-113) sunk by German aircraft off Licata, Sicily, 12 July 1943.

USS Skill (AM-115) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-593 south of Capri, Italy, 25 September 1943.

USS Skylark (AM-63) sunk by a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 28 March 1945.

USS Swallow (AM-65) sunk after being hit by a single kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 22 April 1945.

USS Swerve (AM-121) sunk by a mine off Anzio, Italy, 9 July 1944.

USS Tanager (AM-5) sunk by shore batteries off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 4 May 1942.

USS Tide (AM-125) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 7 June 1944.

Mine sweeper, coastal (AMc)

USS Bunting (AMc-7) sunk by collision in San Francisco Bay, California, 3 June 1942.

USS Crow (AMc-20) sunk by erratic running aircraft torpedo in Puget Sound, Washington, 23 August 1943.

USS Hornbill (AMc-13) sunk after collision with the lumber schooner Esther Johnson in San Francisco Bay, California, 30 June 1942.

USS Valor (AMc-108) sunk in collision with USS Richard W. Suesens (DE-342) off Cuttyhunk Island, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, 29 June 1944.

Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper (YMS)

USS YMS-14 sunk in collision in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, 11 January 1945.

USS YMS-19 sunk by a mine off Palau, Caroline Islands, 24 September 1944.

USS YMS-21 sunk by a mine off Toulon, France, 1 September 1944.

USS YMS-24 sunk by a mine off St. Tropez, France, 15 August 1944.

USS YMS-30 sunk by a mine off Anzio, Italy, 25 January 1944.

USS YMS-39 sunk by a mine off Balikpapan, Borneo, 26 June 1945.

USS YMS-48 sunk by shore batteries in Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 14 February 1945.

USS YMS-50 sunk by a mine off Balikpapan, Borneo, 18 June 1945.

USS YMS-70 foundered off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 17 October 1944.

USS YMS-71 sunk by a mine off Brunei, Borneo, 3 April 1945.

USS YMS-84 sunk by a mine off Balikpapan, Borneo, 8 July 1945.

USS YMS-98 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

USS YMS-103 sunk by a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 8 April 1945.

USS YMS-127 sunk in the Aleutian Islands, 10 January 1944.

USS YMS-133 foundered off Coos Bay, Oregon, 21 February 1943.

USS YMS-304 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 30 July 1944.

USS YMS-341 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

USS YMS-350 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 2 July 1944.

USS YMS-365 sunk by a mine off Balikpapan, Borneo, 26 June 1945.

USS YMS-378 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 30 July 1944.

USS YMS-385 sunk by a mine off Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 1 October 1944.

USS YMS-409 foundered in the North Atlantic, 12 September 1944.

USS YMS-421 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

USS YMS-472 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

USS YMS-481 sunk by shore batteries off Tarakan, Borneo, 2 May 1945.

Patrol ships

Gunboat (PG)

USS Asheville (PG-21) sunk by Japanese warships south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 3 March 1942.

USS Erie (PG-50) torpedoed by German submarine U-163 off Curacao Island, 12 November 1942, and capsized while under tow off Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, 5 December 1942.

USS Plymouth (PG-57) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-566 off North Carolina, 5 August 1943.

USS St. Augustine (PG-54) sunk after collision with S.S. Camas Meadows off Cape May, New Jersey, 6 January 1944.

Motor gunboat (PGM)

USS PGM-7 sunk in collision in the Bismarck Sea, 18 July 1944.

USS PGM-17 destroyed by grounding off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945.

USS PGM-18 sunk by a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 7 April 1945.

USS PGM-27 destroyed by grounding during typhoon at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945.

Eagle (PE)

USS PE-56 sunk by German submarine U-853 off Portland, Maine, 23 April 1945.

River gunboat (PR)

USS Luzon (PR-7) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942.

USS Mindanao (PR-8) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

USS Oahu (PR-6) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942.

USS Wake (PR-3) captured at Shanghai, China, 7 December 1941.

Motor torpedo boat (PT)

PT-22 scrapped after being badly damaged in a storm at Dora Harbor, Alaska, 11 June 1943.

PT-28 damaged beyond repair in a storm at Dora Harbor, Alaska, 12 January 1943.

PT-31 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 19 January 1942.

PT-32 destroyed to prevent capture, Tagauayan Island, Philippine Islands, 13 March 1942.

PT-33 grounded in enemy waters, 15 December 1941, and destroyed to prevent capture, Cape Santiago, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 26 December 1941.

PT-34 sunk by Japanese aircraft strafing attack off Cauit Island, Cebu, Philippine Islands, 9 April 1942.

PT-35 destroyed to prevent capture, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippine Islands, 12 April 1942.

PT-37 sunk by Japanese destroyer Kawakaze off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1943.

PT-41 destroyed to prevent capture on road to Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 15 April 1942.

PT-43 damaged by Japanese warships, beached, and destroyed to prevent capture on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 11 January 1943.

PT-44 destroyed by Japanese warships off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 12 December 1942.

PT-63 destroyed by accidental fire while refueling in port, Hamburg Bay, Emirau Island, 18 June 1944.

PT-67 destroyed by accidental fire while refueling in port, Tufi, New Guinea, 17 March 1943.

PT-68 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture near Vincke Point, New Guinea, 1 October 1943.

PT-73 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Baliquias Bay, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 15 January 1945.

PT-77 sunk in error by the USS Conyngham (DD-371) and USS Lough (DE-586) near Talin Point, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 1 February 1945.

PT-79 sunk in error by the USS Conyngham (DD-371) and USS Lough (DE-586) near Talin Point, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 1 February 1945.

PT-107 destroyed by accidental fire while refueling in port, Hamburg Bay, Emirau Island, 18 June 1944.

PT-109 sunk after being rammed by Japanese destroyer Amigiri off Kolombangara Island, Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands, 2 August 1943.

PT-110 sunk after collision in Ablingi Harbor, New Britain, 26 January 1944.

PT-111 destroyed by Japanese warships off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1943.

PT-112 destroyed by Japanese warships off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 11 January 1943.

PT-113 destroyed as a result of grounding, not in enemy waters, Veale Reef, near Tufi, New Guinea, 8 August 1943.

PT-117 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, Rendova Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 August 1943.

PT-118 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 7 September 1943.

PT-119 destroyed by fire in port, Tufi, New Guinea, 17 March 1943.

PT-121 destroyed by Australian aircraft, mistaken identification, Bangula Bay, New Britain, 27 March 1944.

PT-123 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1 February 1943.

PT-133 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries, near Cape Pus, New Guinea, 15 July 1944.

PT-135 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Crater Point, New Britain, 12 April 1944.

PT-136 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Malai Island, Vitiaz Strait, New Guinea, 17 September 1943.

PT-145 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Mindiri, New Guinea, 4 January 1944.

PT-147 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Teliata Point, New Guinea, 20 November 1943.

PT-153 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Munda Point, New Georgia, 4 July 1943.

PT-158 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Munda Point, New Georgia, 5 July 1943.

PT-164 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, Rendova Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 August 1943.

PT-165 lost in transit, tanker torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-17, 100 miles south of Nouméa, New Caledonia, 24 May 1943.

PT-166 destroyed in error by US Army Air Force B-25 bombers, mistaken identification, off New Georgia, 20 July 1943.

PT-172 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 7 September 1943.

PT-173 lost in transit, tanker torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-17, 100 miles south of Nouméa, New Caledonia, 24 May 1943.

PT-193 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, Noemfoor Island, New Guinea, 25 June 1944.

PT-200 lost after collision, 22 February 1944, off Newport, Rhode Island, and sank 23 February 1944.

PT-202 destroyed by enemy mine, off Point Aygulf, France, Mediterranean Sea, 16 August 1944.

PT-218 destroyed by enemy mine, off Point Aygulf, France, Mediterranean Sea, 16 August 1944.

PT-219 damaged in storm and scrapped, near Attu, Aleutian Islands, 14 September 1943.

PT-239 destroyed by fire in port, Lambu Lambu, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 14 December 1943.

PT-247 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries, off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 5 May 1944.

PT-251 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries, off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 26 February 1944.

PT-279 lost in collision, off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 11 February 1944.

PT-283 damaged by Japanese shore batteries or wild shot from U.S. warship, 18 March 1944, and sank off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 19 March 1944.

PT-300 destroyed by kamikaze attack, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 18 December 1944.

PT-301 damaged by explosion in port and scrapped, Mios Woendi, New Guinea, 7 November 1944.

PT-311 destroyed by enemy mine, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, 18 November 1944.

PT-320 destroyed by Japanese aircraft bombing, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 5 November 1944.

PT-321 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, San Isidro Bay, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 11 November 1944.

PT-322 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Hardenberg Point, New Guinea, 23 November 1943.

PT-323 destroyed by kamikaze attack, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1944.

PT-337 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries, Hansa Bay, New Guinea, 7 March 1944.

PT-338 grounded, 27 January 1945, and destroyed as a result of grounding, not in enemy waters, Semirara Island, Philippine Islands, 31 January 1945.

PT-339 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Pur Pur, New Guinea, 27 May 1944.

PT-346 destroyed by U.S. Navy aircraft, mistaken identification, near Cape Pomas, New Britain Island, 29 April 1944.

PT-347 destroyed by U.S. Navy aircraft, mistaken identification, near Cape Pomas, New Britain Island, 29 April 1944.

PT-353 destroyed by Australian aircraft, mistaken identification, Bangula Bay, New Britain Island, 27 March 1944.

PT-363 destroyed by Japanese shore batteries in Knoe Bay, Halmahera, Netherlands East Indies, 25 November 1944.

PT-368 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Cape Salimoedi, Halmahera, Netherlands East Indies, 11 October 1944.

PT-371 grounded in enemy waters and destroyed to prevent capture, near Tagalasa, Halmahera, Netherlands East Indies, 19 September 1944.

PT-493 destroyed by Japanese warships, Surigao Strait, Philippine Islands, 25 October 1944.

PT-509 destroyed by ramming of a German minesweeper in the English Channel, 9 August 1944.

PT-555 damaged by a German mine off Cape Couronne, Mediterranean Sea, 24 August 1944, and sunk by US gunfire, 8 September 1944.

Yacht (PY)

USS Cythera (PY-26) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine off North Carolina, 2 May 1942.

Yacht, coastal (PYc)

USS Moonstone (PYc-9) sunk after collision with the USS Greer (DD-145) off the Delaware Capes, Delaware, 16 October 1943.

Converted patrol vessels

Fisheries II (converted yacht) destroyed to prevent capture at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

Maryann (converted yacht) destroyed to prevent capture at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

Perry (converted small patrol vessel) destroyed to prevent capture at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

Patrol vessel, district (YP)

USS YP-16 lost due to Japanese occupation of Guam and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

USS YP-17 lost due to Japanese occupation of Guam and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YP-26 destroyed by undetermined explosion in the Canal Zone, Panama, 19 November 1942.

YP-47 sunk by collision off Staten Island, New York, 26 April 1943.

USS YP-72 destroyed by grounding at Adak, Aleutian Islands, 22 February 1943.

USS YP-73 destroyed by grounding in Kodiak Harbor, Alaska, 15 January 1945.

YP-74 sunk by collision, 6 September 1942.

YP-77 sunk in collision off Atlantic coast, 28 April 1942.

YP-88 destroyed by grounding at Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, 28 October 1943.

YP-94 destroyed by grounding, 18 February 1945.

YP-95 destroyed by grounding at Adak, Aleutian Islands, 1 May 1944.

YP-97 lost due to Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YP-128 destroyed by grounding off Monterey, California, 30 June 1942.

YP-183 destroyed by grounding on the west coast of Hawaii, 12 January 1943.

YP-205 destroyed by grounding, 1 November 1942.

YP-235 destroyed by undetermined explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, 1 April 1943.

YP-270 destroyed by grounding, 30 June 1942.

YP-277 scuttled to avoid capture east of Hawaii, 23 May 1942.

YP-279 foundered in heavy weather off Townsville, Australia, 5 September 1943.

YP-281 foundered in heavy weather, 9 January 1944.

YP-284 sunk by surface ships off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 25 October 1942.

YP-331 foundered in heavy weather, 23 March 1944.

YP-336 destroyed by grounding in the Delaware River, 23 February 1943.

USS YP-345 sunk south-east of Midway Island, 31 October 1942.

YP-346 sunk by surface ships in the South Pacific, 9 September 1942.

YP-383 sunk by collision, 24 November 1944.

YP-387 sunk by collision, 20 May 1942.

YP-389 sunk by a submarine off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 19 June 1942.

YP-405 destroyed by undetermined explosion in the Caribbean Sea, 20 November 1942.

YP-422 destroyed by grounding off New Caledonia.

YP-426 destroyed by grounding, 16 December 1943.

YP-438 destroyed by grounding at Port Everglades, Florida, 20 March 1943.

YP-453 destroyed by grounding in the Bahama Islands, 15 April 1943.

YP-481 destroyed by grounding at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April 1943.

YP-492 sunk by collision off east Florida, 8 January 1943.

YP-577 destroyed by undetermined explosion in the Great Lakes, 23 January 1943.

Submarine chaser, (173 foot) (PC)

USS PC-460 sunk by collision with a submarine in the Gulf of Panama, 24 January 1942.

USS PC-496 sunk after being torpedoed by Italian submarine off Bizerte, Tunisia, 4 June 1943.

USS PC-558 sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-230 north of Palermo, Italy, 9 May 1944.

USS PC-584 sunk by typhoon at Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945.

USS PC-590 destroyed by grounding during typhoon at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945.

USS PC-814 destroyed by typhoon at Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 12 December 1945.

USS PC-815 sunk by collision with USS Laffey (DD-724) off San Diego, California, 11 September 1945.

USS PC-1129 sunk by Japanese Suicide boat off Nasugbu, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 31 January 1945.

USS PC-1261 sunk by shellfire from shore batteries off Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.

USS PC-1603 damaged by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 21 May 1945, and sunk 26 May 1945.

Submarine chaser (110 foot) (SC)

USS SC-521 foundered off Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands, 10 July 1945.

USS SC-632 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

USS SC-636 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945.

USS SC-694 sunk by aircraft off Palermo, Italy, 23 August 1943.

USS SC-696 sunk by aircraft off Palermo, Italy, 23 August 1943.

USS SC-700 sunk by accidental fire off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 10 March 1944.

USS SC-709 grounded off Cape Breton, France, 21 January 1943.

USS SC-740 grounded on Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 17 June 1943.

USS SC-744 sunk by kamikaze attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 27 November 1944.

USS SC-751 grounded off Western Australia, 22 June 1943.

USS SC-984 grounded off New Hebrides, 9 April 1944.

USS SC-1019 lost by grounding, 22 April 1945.

USS SC-1024 sunk after collision off North Carolina, 2 March 1943.

USS SC-1059 lost by grounding off the Bahamas Islands, 12 December 1944.

USS SC-1067 foundered off Attu, Aleutian Islands, 19 November 1943.

Amphibious ships

Landing ship, tank (LST)

USS LST-6 sunk by a mine in the Seine River while en route from Rouen, Zambia to Portland, England, 18 November 1941.

USS LST-43 sunk by explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

USS LST-69 sunk by explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

USS LST-158 sunk by aircraft off Licata, Sicily, 11 July 1943.

USS LST-167 stricken after being damaged beyond repair by Japanese aircraft off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 25 September 1943.

USS LST-179 sunk by explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

USS LST-203 destroyed by grounding near Nanumea, Ellice Islands, 2 October 1943.

USS LST-228 destroyed by grounding near Bahia Angra Island, Azores, 21 January 1944.

USS LST-282 sunk by a glider bomb off St. Tropez, France, 15 August 1944.

USS LST-313 sunk by German aircraft off Gela, Sicily, 10 July 1943.

USS LST-314 sunk by German motor torpedo boats off Normandy, France, 9 June 1944.

USS LST-318 sunk by aircraft off Caronia, Sicily, 10 August 1943.

USS LST-333 sunk by German submarine U-593 off Dellys, Algeria, 22 June 1943.

USS LST-342 sunk by Japanese submarine RO-106 west of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 18 July 1943.

USS LST-348 sunk by German submarine U-410 off Anzio, Italy, 20 February 1944.

USS LST-349 sunk after running aground off Ponza, Italy, 26 February 1944.

USS LST-353 sunk by internal explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

USS LST-359 sunk by German submarine U-870 north-east of the Azores, 20 December 1944.

USS LST-376 sunk by German motor torpedo boats off Normandy, France, 9 June 1944.

USS LST-396 sunk by accidental fire and explosion off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 18 August 1943.

USS LST-447 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 7 April 1945.

USS LST-448 sunk by Japanese aircraft off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 5 October 1943.

USS LST-460 sunk by kamikaze attack off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 21 December 1944.

USS LST-472 sunk by kamikaze attack off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 15 December 1944.

USS LST-480 sunk by explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

USS LST-493 destroyed after grounding while attempting to enter Plymouth Harbor, England, 12 April 1945.

USS LST-496 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 11 June 1944.

USS LST-499 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 8 June 1944.

USS LST-507 sunk by German motor torpedo boats in Lyme Bay, England, 28 April 1944.

USS LST-523 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 19 June 1944.

USS LST-531 sunk by German motor torpedo boats in Lyme Bay, England, 28 April 1944.

USS LST-563 grounded off Clipperton Island, southwest Pacific, 22 December 1944, and abandoned, 9 February 1945.

USS LST-577 sunk by Japanese submarine RO-50 east of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 11 February 1945.

USS LST-675 grounded off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 April 1945, and abandoned, 17 September 1945.

USS LST-738 sunk by kamikaze aircraft off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 15 December 1944.

USS LST-749 sunk by kamikaze aircraft off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 21 December 1944.

USS LST-750 sunk by Japanese aircraft off Los Negros, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 28 December 1944.

USS LST-808 grounded after being damaged by Japanese aircraft off Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 18 May 1945, and destroyed, 11 November 1945.

USS LST- 906 grounded off Leghorn, Italy, 18 October 1944, and scrapped, 22 June 1945.

USS LST-921 torpedoed by German submarine U-764 off the channel entrance to Bristol, England, 14 August 1944, and struck from the Navy list, 14 October 1944.

Landing ship, medium (LSM)

USS LSM-12 foundered after being damaged by a Japanese suicide boat off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 April 1945.

USS LSM-20 sunk by kamikaze attack off Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 5 December 1944.

USS LSM-59 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 21 June 1945.

USS LSM-135 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945.

USS LSM-149 grounded off the Philippine Islands, 5 December 1944.

USS LSM-318 sunk by kamikaze attack off Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 7 December 1944.

Landing ship, medium (rocket) (LSMR)

USS LSMR-190 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945.

USS LSMR-194 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945.

USS LSMR-195 sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 3 May 1945.

Landing craft, tank (LCT)

LCT(5)-19 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 15 September 1943.

LCT(5)-21 sunk off Oran, Algeria, 1 January 1943.

LCT(5)-23 sunk at Algiers, Algeria, 3 May 1943.

LCT(5)-25 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-26 sunk, 25 February 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 6 March 1944.

LCT(5)-27 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-28 sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 May 1943.

LCT(5)-30 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-35 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 15 February 1944.

LCT(5)-36 sunk off Naples, Italy, 26 February 1944.

LCT(5)-66 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 12 April 1945.

LCT(5)-71 sunk, 11 September 1943.

LCT(5)-147 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(5)-154 sunk, 31 August 1943.

LCT(5)-175 sunk, 21 February 1945.

LCT(5)-182 sunk off the Solomon Islands, 7 August 1944.

LCT(5)-185 sunk off Bizerte, Tunisia, 24 January 1944.

LCT(5)-196 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 27 September 1943.

LCT(5)-197 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-200 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(5)-208 sunk off Algeria, 20 June 1943.

LCT(5)-209 sunk off northern France, 10 June 1944.

LCT(5)-215 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 1943.

LCT(5)-220 sunk at Anzio, Italy, 13 February 1944.

LCT(5)-241 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 15 September 1943.

LCT(5)-242 sunk off Naples, Italy, 2 December 1943.

LCT(5)-244 sunk off northern France, 8 June 1944.

LCT(5)-253 sunk on passage to Tarawa, 21 January 1945.

LCT(5)-293 sunk in English Channel, 11 October 1944.

LCT(5)-294 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-305 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-311 sunk off Bizerte, Tunisia, 9 August 1943.

LCT(5)-315 sunk at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, 23 March 1944.

LCT(5)-319 sunk at Kiska, Aleutian Islands, 27 August 1943.

LCT(5)-332 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-340 sunk, 9 February 1944 and stricken from the Navy List, 6 March 1944.

LCT(5)-342 sunk off Salerno, Italy, 29 September 1943.

LCT(5)-352 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 12 April 1945.

LCT(5)-362 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-364 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(5)-366 sunk, 9 September 1943.

LCT(5)-413 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(5)-458 sunk off northern France, 7 June 1944.

LCT(5)-459 sunk off western France, 19 September 1944.

LCT(5)-486 sunk off northern France, 7 June 1944.

LCT(5)-496 sunk in the English Channel, 2 October 1943.

LCT(6)-548 sunk at Portsmouth, England, October 1944.

LCT(6)-555 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-572 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(6)-579 sunk off Palau, Caroline Islands, 4 October 1944.

LCT(6)-582 sunk in the Azores Islands, 22 January 1944.

LCT(6)-593 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-597 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-612 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-703 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-713 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(6)-714 sunk off northern France, June 1944.

LCT(6)-777 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

LCT(6)-823 sunk off Palau, Caroline Islands, 27 September 1944.

LCT(6)-961 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

LCT(6)-963 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

LCT(6)-983 sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 21 May 1944.

LCT(6)-984 sunk, 15 May 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 9 June 1944.

LCT(6)-988 sunk, 15 May 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 9 June 1944.

LCT(6)-995 sunk at Guam, Mariana Islands, 21 April 1945.

LCT(6)-1029 sunk at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 2 March 1945.

LCT(6)-1050 sunk off Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 27 July 1945.

LCT(6)-1075 sunk off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1944.

LCT(6)-1090 sunk off Luzon, Philippine Islands, 26 March 1945.

LCT(6)-1151 sunk, 26 January 1945.

LCT(6)-1358 sunk off California, 4 May 1945.

Landing craft, infantry (gunboat) (LCI(G))

USS LCI(G)-82 sunk by Japanese suicide boat off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 April 1945.

USS LCI(G)-365 sunk by Japanese suicide boat in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 10 January 1945.

USS LCI(G)-459 sunk off Palau, Caroline Islands, 19 September 1944.

USS LCI(G)-468 sunk, 17 June 1944.

USS LCI(G)-474 sunk off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 17 February 1945.

Landing craft, infantry (large) (LCI(L))

USS LCI(L)-1 sunk off Bizerte, Tunisia, 17 August 1943.

USS LCI(L)-20 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.

USS LCI(L)-32 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 26 January 1944.

USS LCI(L)-85 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-91 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-92 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-93 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-219 sunk off northern France, 11 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-232 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-339 sunk off New Guinea, 4 September 1943.

USS LCI(L)-416 sunk off northern France, 9 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-497 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-553 sunk off Northern France, 6 June 1944.

USS LCI(L)-600 sunk by undetermined explosion at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 12 January 1945.

USS LCI(L)-684 sunk off Samar, Philippine Islands, 12 November 1945.

USS LCI(L)-1065 sunk off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944.

Landing craft, infantry (mortar) (LCI(M))

USS LCI(M)-974 sunk by Japanese suicide boat in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 10 January 1945.

Landing craft, support (large) (Mk. III) (LCS(L))

USS LCS(L)(3)-7 sunk by Suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-15 sunk by kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 22 April 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-26 sunk by Suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-33 sunk by shore batteries off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 19 February 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-37 engines damaged beyond repair by a depth charge dropped under the fantail by a suicide boat off Nakagusuki Wan, Okinawa, 28 April 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-49 sunk by suicide boat off Mariveles, Corregidor Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 February 1945.

USS LCS (L)(3)-88 Fantail and aft twin 40mm heavily damaged by destroyed suicide plane bomb off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 11 May 1945.

USS LCS(L)(3)-127 sunk off California, 5 March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 30 March 1945.

Auxiliaries

Ammunition ship (AE)

USS Mount Hood (AE-11) destroyed by explosion at Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944.

Provision storeship (AF)

USS Pontiac (AF-20) scrapped after foundering off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 30 January 1945.

Mobile floating dry dock (AFD)

AFD-13 sunk off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 16 September 1945.

Miscellaneous auxiliary (AG)

USS Robert L. Barnes (AG-27) captured at Guam, Marianas Islands, 10 December 1941.

USS Utah (AG-16) capsized after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 7 December 1941.

Motor torpedo boat tender (AGP)

USS Niagara (AGP-1) sunk by Japanese aircraft bombing near San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands, 23 May 1943.

Cargo ship (AK)

USS Aludra (AK-72) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine RO-103 off San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands, 23 June 1943.

USS Atik (AK-101) sunk while deployed as a Q-Ship (warship disguised as a merchantman) in a battle with German submarine U-123 in the North Atlantic, 26 March 1942.

USS Deimos (AK-78) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine RO-103 off San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands, 23 June 1943.

USS Serpens (AK-97) destroyed by explosion off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 29 January 1945.

General stores issue ship (AKS)

USS Pollux (AKS-2) wrecked in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, 18 February 1942.

Net laying ship (AN)

USS Ailanthus (AN-38) lost by grounding in the Aleutian Islands, 26 February 1944.

Oiler (AO)

USS Kanawha (AO-1) damaged by Japanese aircraft at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 7 April 1943, sinks on 8 April 1943.

USS Mississinewa (AO-59) sunk after being hit by Kaiten (suicide torpedo) fired by either Japanese submarine I-47 or I-36, at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 20 November 1944.

USS Neches (AO-5) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-72 one hundred thirty five miles west of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 23 January 1942.

USS Neosho (AO-23), damaged on 7 May 1942 by Japanese carrier aircraft during the Battle of the Coral Sea, scuttled by destroyer Henley (DD-391) on 11 May 1942.

USS Pecos (AO-6) sunk by Japanese aircraft south of Christmas Island, 1 March 1942.

USS Cowanesque (AO-79) damaged on 3 January 1945 off of San Pedro Bay, Philippines, by kamikaze attack of a Japanese single-engine fighter crashing into her port side and disintegrating violently, spreading burning gasoline over the deck. Damage control parties dumped the unexploded bomb from the plane over the side, brought the fires under control.

Gasoline tanker (AOG)

USS Sheepscot (AOG-24) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair by grounding off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 5 June 1945.

Transport (AP)

USS Edward Rutledge (AP-52) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-130 off Fedala, Morocco, 12 November 1942.

USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) damaged by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, scuttled by destroyer Hull (DD-350), 8 August 1942.

USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-130 off Fedala, Morocco, 12 November 1942.

USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-173 off Fedala, Morocco, 11 November 1942.

USS Leedstown (AP-73) sunk after being torpedoed by German aircraft off Algiers, Algeria, 9 November 1942.

USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 7 June 1944.

USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP-42) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-130 off Fedala, Morocco, 12 November 1942.

USS Thomas Stone (AP-59) torpedoed by German aircraft off Cape Palos, Spain, 7 November 1942, and abandoned after going aground in Algiers Harbor, 25 November 1942.

USS Lafayette (AP-53) converted from SS Normandie () sunk by the FDNY at NYC Pier 88, Brooklyn, 9 February 1942.[1]

Transport, attack (APA)

USS John Penn (APA-23) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 13 August 1943.

USS McCawley (APA-4) torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off Rendova, Solomon Islands, and sunk by U.S. motor torpedo boats, 30 June 1943.

Coastal transport (small) (APc)

USS APc-21 sunk by aircraft off Arawe, New Britain Island, 17 December 1943.

USS APc-35 grounded off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 22 September 1943.

High-speed transport (APD)

USS Barry (APD-29) damaged by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945, and sunk as a decoy, 21 June 1945.

USS Bates (APD-47) sunk by kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945.

USS Belknap (APD-34) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair by kamikaze attack at Lingayen, Philippine Islands, 11 January 1945.

USS Brooks (APD-10) scrapped after being damaged beyond repair by kamikaze attack in Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands, 6 January 1945.

USS Colhoun (APD-2) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 30 August 1942.

USS Dickerson (APD-21) damaged by Japanese aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 2 April 1945, and scuttled, 4 April 1945.

USS Gregory (APD-3) sunk by Japanese destroyer Yūdachi off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 5 September 1942.

USS Little (APD-4) sunk by Japanese destroyer Yūdachi off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 5 September 1942.

USS McKean (APD-5) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 17 November 1943.

USS Noa (APD-24) sunk in collision with USS Fullam (DD-474) off Palau, Caroline Islands, 12 September 1944.

USS Ward (APD-16) damaged by kamikaze attack off Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands; scuttled by destroyer O'Brien (DD-725), 7 December 1944.

Salvage vessel (ARS)

USS Extractor (ARS-15) sunk after being torpedoed in error by USS Guardfish (SS-217) in the Philippine Sea, 24 January 1945.

USS Redwing (ARS-4) sunk by explosion at Bizerte, Tunisia, 27 June 1943.

USS Rescuer (ARS-18) lost by grounding in the Aleutian Islands, 1 January 1943.

Submarine tender (AS)

USS Canopus (AS-9) scuttled off Mariveles Bay, Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 9 April 1942.

Submarine rescue vessel (ASR)

USS Macaw (ASR-11) lost by grounding on a reef in Midway Channel, 12 February 1944.

USS Pigeon (ASR-6) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

Ocean tug (AT)

USS Genesee (AT-55) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

USS Grebe (AT-134) wrecked south of Fiji Islands, 5 December 1942.

USS Napa (AT-32) scuttled off Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 9 April 1942.

USS Nauset (AT-89) sunk by German aircraft in the Gulf of Salerno, Italy, 9 September 1943.

USS Navajo (AT-64) sunk by Japanese submarine I-39 east of the New Hebrides Islands, 12 September 1943.

USS Seminole (AT-65) sunk by Japanese destroyers Akatsuki, Ikazuchi, and Shiratsuyu, off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 25 October 1942.

Ocean tug, old (ATO)

USS Partridge (ATO-138) sunk after being torpedoed by German motor torpedo boats off Normandy, France, 11 June 1944.

USS Sonoma (ATO-12) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Leyte, Philippine Islands, 24 October 1944.

Ocean tug, rescue (ATR)

USS ATR-15 lost by grounding off Normandy, France, 19 June 1944.

USS ATR-98 sunk in collision off the Azores Islands, 12 April 1944.

Seaplane tender (AV)

USS Langley (AV-3) irreparably damaged by Japanese aircraft bombs south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 27 February 1942, scuttled by destroyer Whipple (DD-217).

Seaplane tender (destroyer) (AVD)

USS Thornton (AVD-11) scrapped after being damaged in collision with USS Ashtabula (AO-51) off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 5 April 1945.

Seaplane tender (small) (AVP)

USS Gannet (AVP-8) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-653 off Bermuda, 7 June 1942.

Miscellaneous unclassified (IX)

USS Asphalt (IX-153) destroyed after grounding on a reef during a storm at Saipan, Marianas Islands, 6 October 1944.

Ex-USS Rochester (CA-2) scuttled as a block ship in Subic Channel, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 24 December 1941.

USS Ronaki (IX-94) sunk after grounding on a reef off eastern Australia, 18 June 1943.

Damage control hulk

DCH-1 (IX-44) (ex-Walker) scuttled by gunfire from oiler USS Neches (AO-5) while under tow from San Diego, California, to Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 8 December 1941.

Station tanker

USS Porcupine (IX-126) damaged by kamikaze attack off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, scuttled by destroyer Gansevoort (DD-608), 30 December 1944.

District craft

Lighter, ash (YA)

YA-52 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YA-59 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YA-65 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

District auxiliary, miscellaneous (YAG)

YAG-2 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1943.

YAG-3 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1943.

YAG-4 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1943.

YAG-17 lost, 14 September 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 23 February 1945.

Lighter, covered (non self-propelled) (YC)

YC-178 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-181 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-523 lost off Portsmouth, New Hampshire 24 February 1944.

YC-537 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-643 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-644 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-646 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-647 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-648 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-649 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-652 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-653 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-654 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-664 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-665 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-666 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-667 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-668 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-669 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-670 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-671 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-672 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-673 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-674 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-683 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-685 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-693 lost off Alaska, 1 February 1945,[2] and stricken from the Navy List, 23 February 1945.

YC-714 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-715 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-716 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-717 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YC-718 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, December 1941, and stricken from the Navy List, 21 April 1944.

YC-857 lost off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 12 November 1943.

YC-869 lost off Imperial Beach, California 23 March 1943.

YC-886 lost at Guantanamo, Cuba, 3 February 1943.

YC-887 lost at Guantanamo, Cuba, 3 February 1943.

YC-891 lost off Key West, Florida, 18 April 1943.

YC-898 lost off Key West, Florida, 29 September 1942.

YC-899 lost off Key West, Florida, 29 September 1942.

YC-912 lost in the North Pacific, 13 January 1945.

YC-961 lost at Biorka Island, 1 May 1945.[2]

YC-970 lost in Puget Sound, Washington, 14 August 1943.

YC-1272 lost near San Pedro, California, June 1945.

YC-1278 lost off the Atlantic coast, 10 March 1943.

Float, car (non self-propelled) (YCF)

YCF-23 lost en route to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 28 April 1945.

YCF-29 lost en route to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 28 April 1945.

YCF-36 lost en route to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 28 April 1945.

YCF-37 lost en route to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, March 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 28 April 1945.

YCF-42 lost, December 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 8 February 1945.

YCF-59 lost off Delaware, January 1945, and stricken from the Navy List, 30 March 1945.

Lighter, open cargo (YCK)

YCK-1 lost due to enemy action at Wake Island, December 1941.

YCK-2 lost, 5 November 1943.

YCK-8 lost off Key West, Florida, 13 December 1943.

Derrick, floating (non self-propelled) (YD)

YD-19 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YD-47 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YD-56 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YD-60 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Degaussing vessel (YDG)

YDG-4 lost off New Caledonia, 1 October 1943.

Lighter, covered (self-propelled) (YF)

YF-86 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-177 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-178 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-179 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-180 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-181 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-212 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-223 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-224 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-230 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YF-317 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January — May 1942.

YF-401 lost, 20 June 1943.

YF-415 lost, 11 May 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 16 May 1944.

YF-487 lost in the Caribbean Sea, 18 July 1943.

YF-575 lost off Atlantic City, New Jersey, 6 May 1943.

YF-579 lost at San Francisco, California, 20 September 1943.

YF-724 lost off the Farallone Islands, 22 March 1945.

YF-725 lost off the Farallone Islands, 22 March 1945.

YF-777 lost at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 6 August 1945.

YF-926 lost en route to Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 8 March 1945.

Ferryboats and launches (YFB)

Camia (YFB-683) lost due to enemy action at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Dapdap (YFB-684) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Magdalena (YFB-687) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Rivera (YFB- 685 ) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Rosal (YFB-682) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

San Felipe (YFB-12) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Santa Rita (Launch Number 681) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Yacal (YFB-688) lost due to enemy action at Luzon, Philippine Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Floating dry dock

Drydock Dewey scuttled to prevent capture at Bataan, Philippine Islands, 10 April 1942.

Yard floating dry dock, non self-propelled (YFD)

YFD-20 lost off California, 31 January 1943.

Lighter, garbage (self-propelled) (YG)

YG-39 lost, 27 September 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 13 November 1944.

YG-44 lost at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 7 February 1945.

Dredge (self-propelled) (YM)

YM-4 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1942.

YM-13 lost due to enemy action at Guam, Marianas Islands, and stricken from the Navy List, 22 February 1942.

Barge, fuel oil (self-propelled) (YO)

YO-41 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YO-42 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YO-64 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January 1942, and stricken from the Navy List, 21 April 1944.

YO-156 lost at Sitka, Alaska, May 1945.

YO-157 lost at Sitka, Alaska, May 1945.

YO-159 lost off the New Hebrides Islands, 14 January 1944.

Pile driver (non self-propelled) (YPD)

YPD-22 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands, January — May 1942.

Barge, pontoon storage (YPK)

YPK-6 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YPK-7 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Workshop, floating (non self-propelled) (YR)

YR-43 lost in the Gulf of Alaska, 28 March 1945.

Submarine rescue chamber (YRC)

YRC-4 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Pontoon, salvage (YSP)

YSP-41 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-42 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-43 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-44 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-45 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-46 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-47 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-48 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-49 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YSP-50 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Barge, sludge removal (YSR)

YSR-2 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

Harbor tug (YT)

USS Banaag (YT-104) lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

USS Iona (YT-107) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 2 January 1942.

USS Mercedes (YT-108) destroyed to prevent capture at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 2 January 1942.

USS Shahaka (YT-368) sunk after collision with ABSD-2 midway during transit from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 9 May 1944.

USS Vaga (YT-116) scuttled to prevent capture off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942.

YT-198 sunk off Anzio, Italy, 18 February 1944.

YT-247 sunk, 5 April 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 21 April 1944.

Harbor tug, medium (YTM)

YTM-467 lost in the Marshall or Gilbert Islands, March 1944, and stricken from the Navy List, 9 June 1944.

Barge, water (YW)

YW-50 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YW-54 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YW-55 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

YW-58 lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942.

US Coast Guard ships

Gunboat type cutter (WPG)

1. USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34) torpedoed by German submarine U-132 off Iceland, 29 January 1942; scuttled by destroyer USS Ericcson (DD-440) off Reykjavik, 30 January 1942.
2. USCGC Escanaba (WPG-77) sunk by undetermined explosion off Ivigtut, Greenland,

13 June 1943.

Patrol boat (WPC)

1. USCGC Bedloe (WPC-128) foundered during a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 14 September 1944.
2. USCGC Jackson (WPC-142) foundered during a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 14 September 1944.

Patrol boat, 83-foot type (numbers 83300 – 83529)

1. USCGC 83415 foundered off Normandy, France, 21 June 1944.
2. USCGC 83421 sunk in collision off Florida, 30 June 1943.
3. USCGC 83471 foundered off Normandy, France, 21 June 1944.

Patrol craft, converted

1. USCGC 58012 sunk by explosion off Manomet Point, Massachusetts, 2 May 1943.
2. USCGC 85006 (ex-Catamount # 229192) sunk after explosion during patrol off Ambrose Light, New York, 27 March 1943.

Patrol boat, converted (WYP)

1. USCGC Bodega (WYP-342) lost by grounding during salvage operations off the Panama Canal, Panama, 20 December 1943.
2. USCGC Dow (WYP-353) lost by grounding during a gale off Mayaguez, Puerto Rico,

14 October 1943.

1. USCGC Natsek (WYP-170) foundered in the Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland, Canada, 17 December 1942.
2. USCGC Wilcox (WYP-333) foundered in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 30 September 1943.

Lighthouse tender (WAGL)

1. USCGC Acacia (WAGL-200) sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-161 south of Haiti, 15 March 1942.
2. USCGC Magnolia (WAGL-231) sunk in collision with the S.S. Maguerite LeHand off Mobile, Alabama 24 August 1945.

Lightship, 123 foot (LS)

1. USCGC Vineyard Sound Lightship (LS-73) sunk by a hurricane in Vineland Sound, Massachusetts, 14 September 1944.

Weathership (WAG)

1. USCGC Muskeget (AG-48) probably sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-755 in the North Atlantic, 9 September 1942.

Sources

This page is based on the public domain list at the US Department of the Navy website.

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• Donald L. Ball, Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II. Williamsburg VA: Mill Neck Publications, 1997.
• Captain Robert J. Bulkley, Jr., At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy Washington: Naval History Division, 1962.
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• US Navy. Ship's Data: U.S. Naval Vessels. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943.
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• Donald J. Young, The Battle for Bataan: A History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and United States Troops to the Japanese in World War II Jefferson North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1992.

Specific

1. https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/09/the-sinking-of-the-s-s-normandie-at-nycs-pier-88/
2. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (Y)