Chronological List of U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged during 1943

Total ships sunk or damaged in 1943 -- 376


January 1943 (32 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/01/43 Arthur Middleton Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 44; 24 AG; 12 Army passengers
01/01/43 Charles Carroll Liberty Mine Damaged Caribbean Unknown
01/02/43 Thomas A. Edison Liberty Split Total loss Pacific None
01/02/43 Collingsworth Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 8; AG 4
01/07/43 William Wirt Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/09/43 Birmingham City Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 5; AG 5
01/09/43 Broad Arrow Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 16; AG 7
01/09/43 Louise Lykes Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 50; AG 34; Army 10
01/09/43 Minotaur Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 6
01/10/43 C. J. Barkdull Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 38; AG 20
01/10/43 Norwalk Freighter Collision Sunk GulfMexico Crew 1
01/14/43 Mapele Freighter Grounded Sunk Alaska Crew 1; AG 1
01/16/43 Schenectady Tanker Split at dock Damaged Westcoast None
01/18/43 Lipscomb Lykes Freighter Grounded Total loss Pacific None
01/18/43 Mobilube Tanker Torpedo Total loss Pacific Crew 3
01/19/43 William Wirt Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/20/43 Charles H. Cramp Freighter Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
01/20/43 Brilliant Tanker Split Sunk NAtlantic Crew 7; AG 3; Pilot 1
01/20/43 Walt Whitman Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/22/43 Peter H. Burnett Liberty Torpedo Damaged Pacific AG 1
01/23/43 D. L. Co. XXXIII Scow Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
01/23/43 Benjamin Smith Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
01/23/43 Stephen Johnson Field Liberty Bombed Damaged Pacific None
01/24/43 Teddy Gas screw Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
01/25/43 City of Flint Freighter Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 3; AG 3; German POW: 1
01/26/43 Lewis Cass Liberty Split Total loss Westcoast None
01/27/43 Cape Decision Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None [Book: Peter; the Odyssey of a Merchant Mariner by Peter Chelemedos]
01/27/43 Charles C. Pinckney Liberty Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 37; AG 19; Army 2
01/27/43 Julia Ward Howe Liberty Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 2; AG 1; Army 1
01/27/43 El Oriente Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk AG 1
01/28/43 City of Omaha Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
01/30/43 Samuel Gompers Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 3; AG 1

February 1943 (32 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
02/02/43 Jeremiah Van Rennselaer Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 35; AG 11
02/03/43 Dorchester Troopship Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 102; AG 11; Troops 562
02/03/43 Greylock Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
02/05/43 West Portal Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 40; AG 25
02/06/43 Thomas Stone Liberty Attack Little damage Med-BlackSea None
02/07/43 Henry R. Mallory Troopship Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 49; AG 15; troops 208
02/07/43 Robert E. Hopkins Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 14; AG 1
02/07/43 Roger B. Taney Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 3
02/07/43 William Wirt Liberty Bombed Damaged ApproachMed None
02/08/43 Fisher Ames Liberty Collision Damaged? Caribbean Unknown
02/08/43 Northern Sword Freighter Collision Sunk Caribbean Unknown
02/08/43 Thomas Stone Liberty Attack Little damage Med-BlackSea None
02/09/43 George Davis Liberty Collision Damaged NAtlantic Unknown
02/09/43 Pan Royal Freighter Collision Sunk NAtlantic Crew 8
02/10/43 Starr King Freighter Torpedo Sunk Pacific None
02/12/43 Uruguay Troopship Collision Damaged Unknown Army 13
02/15/43 Atlantic Sun Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 46; AG 20, German POW 1
02/16/43 Zacapa Freighter None None NEAtlantic Crew 2 Killed in air attack ashore
02/17/43 Nicholas Gilman Liberty Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
02/17/43 Deer Lodge Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 2
02/18/43 Thomas Stone Liberty Attack Little damage Med-BlackSea None
02/21/43 H. H. Rogers Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
02/21/43 Rosario Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 30; AG 3
02/22/43 Chattanooga City Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
02/22/43 Expositor Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 6; AG 3
02/23/43 Esso Baton Rouge Tanker Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 2; AG 1
02/23/43 Hastings Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 9
02/23/43 Jonathan Sturges Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 29; AG 22; German POW: Crew 4; AG 2
02/23/43 Winkler Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 14; AG 5
02/24/43 Nathanael Greene (GSA) Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 4
02/28/43 Daniel Carroll Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
02/28/43 Wade Hampton Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 4; AG 5

March 1943 (54 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
03/01/43 Fitz-John Porter Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic AG 1
03/01/43 Gulfwave Tanker Torpedo Damaged Pacific None
03/_/43 Charles Gordon Curtis Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None
03/02/43 Meriwether Lewis Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 44; AG 32
03/03/43 Harvey W. Scott Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
03/03/43 Staghound Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
03/05/43 Executive Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 8; AG 1
03/05/43 Hartwelson Freighter Grounded Total loss Eastcoast None
03/05/43 Richard Bland Liberty Torpedo Damaged Murmansk None
03/06/43 Thomas Hooker Liberty Split Sunk NAtlantic None
03/07/43 Samuel F. B. Morse (I) Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
03/08/43 J. L. M. Curry Liberty Foundered Sunk Murmansk None
03/08/43 James B. Stephens Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea AG 1
03/09/43 Joseph Rodman Drake Liberty Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic Unknown
03/09/43 George G. Meade Liberty Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
03/09/43 James K. Polk Liberty Torpedo Total loss SAtlantic AG 1
03/09/43 James Smith Liberty Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic Crew 6; AG 5
03/09/43 Malantic Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 19; AG 5; Passenger 1
03/09/43 Mark Hanna Liberty Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
03/09/43 Puerto Rican Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 39; AG 25
03/09/43 Thomas Ruffin Liberty Torpedo Total loss SAtlantic Crew 4; AG 2
03/10/43 Lawton B. Evans Liberty Torpedo No Damage NAtlantic None
03/10/43 Andrea F. Luckenbach Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 9; AG 11
03/10/43 James Sprunt Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 43; AG 25
03/10/43 Richard Bland Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 19; AG 15
03/10/43 Richard D. Spaight Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 1
03/10/43 Virginia Sinclair Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 7
03/10/43 William C. Gorgas Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 34; AG 18
03/11/43 Henry Wynkoop Liberty Collisionwith U-boat? Damaged NAtlantic Crew 2; AG 1
03/11/43 Olancho Freighter (Honduras or Panama) Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico Crew 3
03/12/43 Granville [former Finnish Wipunen] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 11; AG 2
03/13/43 Exterminator [former Italian Mongioia] Freighter Collision Unknown NAtlantic Unknown
03/13/43 Cities Service Missouri Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 2
03/13/43 Keystone Freighter Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 1; AG 1
03/16/43 Aztec Freighter Unknown Unknown ApproachMed None [AG wounded]
03/16/43 Benjamin Harrison Liberty Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 2; AG 1
03/16/43 James Oglethorpe Liberty Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
03/17/43 James Oglethorpe Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 31; AG 11; Passengers 2
03/17/43 Charles S. Jones Tanker Torpedo attack No damage Pacific None
03/17/43 Harry Luckenbach Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 54; AG 26
03/17/43 Irenee Dupont Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 7; AG 6; Passenger 1
03/17/43 Molly Pitcher Liberty Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 2; AG 2
03/17/43 William T. Coleman Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
03/17/43 William Eustis Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
03/19/43 Examiner Freighter Shelled Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 1; AG 1; Crew ashore 1; AG ashore 1
03/19/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Nearby ammunition explosion Damaged Med-BlackSea None
03/19/43 Walter Q. Gresham Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 22; AG 5
03/19/43 Matthew Luckenbach Freighter Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
03/20/43 Matthew Luckenbach Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
03/27/43 Cape Henlopen Freighter Collision Damaged Eastcoast None
03/27/43 Lillian Luckenbach Freighter Collision Sunk Eastcoast None
03/28/43 Masaya (USAT) Freighter Bombed Sunk Pacific Crew 2
03/29/43 Esso Manhattan Tanker Mine? Split & Repaired Eastcoast None
03/29/43 Samuel Livermore Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
03/29/43 William Pierce Frye Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 35; AG 22
03/30/43 Christopher Gadsden Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]

April 1943 (21 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
04/02/43 Maurine (USAT) Harbor Craft Capsized Sunk Westcoast Crew 6
04/03/43 Gulfstate Tanker Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico Crew 30; AG 8
04/04/43 Sunoil Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 43; AG 25
04/06/43 John Sevier Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
04/11/43 Edward B. Dudley Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 42; AG 25
04/11/43 James W. Denver Liberty Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 2
04/11/43 Matt W. Ransom Liberty Mine Damaged ApproachMed None
04/18/43 Thomas Hartley Liberty Bombed Damaged Murmansk None (60 air attacks in Murmansk between March 1 and November 1; 1943)
04/20/43 James Fenimore Cooper Liberty Collision Damaged NAtlantic None
04/20/43 Lena Luckenbach Freighter Collision Damaged NAtlantic None
04/21/43 John Drayton Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 21; AG 6
04/24/43 El Estero Freighter (Panama) Fire Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
04/23/43 Robert Gray Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 39; AG 18
04/23/43 Cities Service Ohio Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
04/24/43 Santa Catalina Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
04/25/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/27/43 Lydia M. Child Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific None
04/29/43 McKeesport Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 1
04/29/43 Peter Sylvester Liberty Submarine attack No damage Pacific None
04/30/43 Michigan Freighter Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea None
04/30/43 Phoebe A. Hearst Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific None

May 1943 (34 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
05/01/43 Crusader Oil screw Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
05/02/43 Livingston Roe Tanker Fire Unknown SAtlantic Unknown
05/02/43 William Williams Liberty Torpedo Damaged Pacific None
05/03/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/04/43 Oneida ( USAT by Agwilines) Freighter Foundered Sunk Eastcoast Crew 23; AG 6
05/04/43 Panam Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Eastcoast Crew 2
05/04/43 West Maximus Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 5; AG 1
05/05/43 West Madaket Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
05/06/43 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
05/08/43 Pat Harrison Liberty Mine Total loss ApproachMed Crew 1
05/09/43 Daniel Huger Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 1; AG 1
05/12/43 Perida Freighter Grounded Damaged Alaska None
05/12/43 Cape Neddick Freighter Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
05/13/43 Mambi Tanker (Cuba) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 19; AG 4
05/13/43 Nickeliner Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
05/14/43 William H. Seward Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/16/43 Cities Service Boston Tanker Grounded Total loss Pacific None
05/16/43 William K. Vanderbilt Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 1
05/18/43 H. M. Storey Tanker Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Pacific Crew 2
05/19/43 Samuel Johnston Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/19/43 Josiah Bartlett Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
05/19/43 Luther Martin Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
05/19/43 Samuel Griffin Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
05/19/43 Henry Ward Beecher Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/19/43 Hawaiian Freighter Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/20/43 John Clark Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/21/43 Josiah Bartlett Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/29/43 Sheldon Jackson Liberty Torpedo No damage Pacific None
05/23/43 Stanvac Manila Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 8; AG 3; Navy 1
05/27/43 John Worthington Tanker Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
05/28/43 Agwimonte Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
05/28/43 Cardinal Gibbons Liberty Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
05/28/43 Florida Tanker Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
05/30/43 Flora MacDonald Liberty Torpedo Total loss SAtlantic Crew 7

June 1943 (25 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
06/01/43 John Morgan Liberty Collision & explosion Sunk Eastcoast Crew 42; AG 25
06/01/43 Montana Tanker Collision & fire Damaged Eastcoast Crew 9; AG 10
06/03/43 Halma [former Danish Nora] Freighter (Panama) Mine Sunk Eastcoast None
06/03/43 Montanan Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 5; AG 2
06/04/43 Joseph N. Teal Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/04/43 Walter E. Ranger Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
06/04/43 Edward Chambers Liberty Shelled No Damage Pacific None
06/04/43 Felipe De Neve Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
06/05/43 Reigh Count [former Italian San Leonardo] Freighter (Panama) Collision Sunk NAtlantic None
06/06/43 John Bartram Liberty Torpedo No damage Pacific None
06/06/43 William King Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 6; Japanese POW: Crew 1 (Master) died on Junyo Maru
06/07/43 Gaspar De Portola Liberty Grounded Total loss Caribbean None
06/10/43 Esso Gettysburg Tanker Torpedo Sunk Eastcoast Crew 37; AG 20
06/14/43 Lewis Morris Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
06/14/43 William H. Webb Liberty Torpedo Damaged Eastcoast None
06/16/43 Portmar (USAT) Freighter Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 1; Passenger 1
06/16/43 MacVeigh Freighter Grounded Damaged Alaska Unknown
06/19/43 Henry Knox Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 13; AG 13
06/20/43 Santa Maria Freighter Mine Damaged SAtlantic AG 1
06/25/43 Eagle Tanker Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
06/27/43 Charles Willson Peale Liberty Submarine attack No damage SAtlantic None
06/27/43 Sebastian Cermeno Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 5
06/30/43 Pierre S. Dupont Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/30/43 William Whipple Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
06/_/43 James Iredell Liberty Explosion of nearby ship Damaged Med-BlackSea None [15 soldiers seriously wounded]

July 1943 (41 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
07/01/43 William B. Ogden Liberty Grounded Damaged Indian-Red Sea Unknown
07/02/43 Bloody Marsh Tanker Torpedo Sunk Eastcoast Crew 3
07/03/43 Elihu B. Washburne Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
07/05/43 Alcoa Prospector Freighter Torpedo Damaged Indian-Red Sea None
07/05/43 John Hart Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/05/43 Maltran Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
07/13/43 James R. Randall Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/07/43 James Robertson Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic AG 1
07/07/43 S. B. Hunt Tanker Torpedo Damaged SAtlantic None
07/07/43 Thomas Sinnickson Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic AG 1
07/07/43 William Boyce Thompson Tanker Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 5
07/08/43 Eldena Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
07/09/43 Samuel Heintzelman Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 42; AG 27; Passenger 6
07/10/43 Alice F. Palmer Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
07/10/43 Gulfprince Tanker Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea AG 1
07/10/43 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/10/43 Benjamin Goodhue Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/10/43 Matthew Maury Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/10/43 O. Henry Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/11/43 Joseph Pulitzer Liberty Bombed Unknown Med-BlackSea None
07/11/43 Robert Rowan Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea None
07/12/43 African Star Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic AG 1
07/12/43 Joseph G. Cannon Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea British Army Unknown
07/13/43 George Rogers Clark Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/13/43 Zane Gray Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/13/43 Robert Bacon Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 3; AG 2
07/13/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/14/43 Pocahontas Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
07/14/43 Timothy Pickering Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 22; AG 9; British Army 100
07/16/43 John H. Eaton Liberty Explosions nearby bombed ships Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/16/43 Richard Caswell Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 9
07/16/43 Stephen C. Foster Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/19/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/19/43 Dellwood (USAT) Cable ship Grounded Sunk Alaska None
07/20/43 William T. Coleman Liberty Explosion of nearby bombed tanker Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/22/43 Cherry Valley Tanker Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
07/22/43 Samuel Parker (GSA) Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea AG 3
7/25/43 Samuel F. B. Morse (I) Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
7/25/43 Henry Wilson Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
07/28/43 John A. Poor Liberty Mine or Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
07/30/43 William Ellery Liberty Torpedo Damaged Indian-Red Sea None


Ships Sunk or Damaged August 1943 (38 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
08/01/43 William W. Gerhard Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/01/43 Samuel Huntington Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/01/43 William Mulholland Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/01/43 Andrew T. Huntington Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/03/43 Yankee Arrow Tanker Mine Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 5; AG 2
08/04/43 William W. Gerhard Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/04/43 Harrison Gray Otis Liberty Mine Total loss ApproachMed Crew 2
08/06/43 Delbrazil Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/11/43 Matthew Lyon Liberty Torpedo Damaged Pacific None
08/13/43 Solomon Juneau Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/13/43 William W. Gerhard Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/13/43 Tabitha Brown Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/13/43 James W. Marshall Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/13/43 David Stone Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/13/43 Anne Bradstreet Liberty Strafed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/13/43 Francis W. Pettygrove Liberty Aerial Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
08/13/43 Jonathan Elmer Liberty Strafed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/13/43 M. H. DeYoung Liberty Torpedo Total loss Pacific Crew 3; Navy 1
08/16/43 Benjamin Contee Liberty Aerial Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea Italian POW's 264
08/17/43 William D. Moseley Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/17/43 Lawton B. Evans Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/17/43 Joel Chandler Harris Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/17/43 Good Gulf Tanker (Panama) Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/17/43 Charles Goodyear Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/19/43 J. H. Senior Tanker (Panama) Collision/fire Damaged NAtlantic Crew 41; AG 28
08/19/43 J. Pinckney Henderson Liberty Collision/fire Total loss NAtlantic Crew 38; AG 25
08/19/43 Theodore Dwight Weld Liberty Collision Unknown NAtlantic None
08/21/43 Cape Mohican Freighter Torpedo by escort Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/23/43 William H. Seward Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/23/43 Pierre Soule Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/24/43 Esso Providence Tanker Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/26/43 John Bell Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 1
08/26/43 Richard Henderson Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea None
08/27/43 ST-165 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
08/28/43 Albert Gallatin Liberty Torpedo Damaged Indian-Red Sea None
08/31/43 W. S. Rheem Tanker Torpedo Damaged Pacific None
08/__/43 Hugh Williamson Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/__/43 David G. Farragut Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]

September 1943 (25 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
09/06/43 James Monroe Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
09/06/43 Indiana Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
09/07/43 Lyman Stewart Liberty Torpedo Damaged Indian-Red Sea None
09/09/43 ST-35 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 2
09/10/43 James Woodrow Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
09/12/43 William B. Travis Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea Army 1 [Book: Woody; Cisco; & Me by Jim Longhi]
09/13/43 James W. Marshall Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
09/14/43 Bushrod Washington Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 6; AG 4
09/14/43 Lewis Morris Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
09/15/43 James W. Marshall Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 13; AG 1; Army 50
09/15/43 William Bradford Liberty Bombed & strafed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
09/16/43 Hugh Williamson Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
09/16/43 Edward P. Costigan Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
09/18/43 William Pepperell Liberty Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
09/20/43 Elna (USAT) Freighter Grounded Damaged Alaska Unknown
09/20/43 Frederick Douglas Liberty Torpedo [U238] Damaged NAtlantic None
09/20/43 Frederick Douglas Liberty Torpedo [U645] Sunk NAtlantic None
09/20/43 Theodore Dwight Weld Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 20; AG 13
09/20/43 William Pepperell Liberty Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
09/21/43 Cornelia P. Spencer Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 2
09/21/43 William W. Gerhard Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea AG 2
09/22/43 Richard Olney Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 2
09/23/43 Julia Luckenbach Freighter Collision Sunk SAtlantic Crew 1
09/23/43 Steel Voyager Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
09/23/43 James Gordon Bennett Liberty Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
09/24/43 Elias Howe Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 2

Ships Sunk or Damaged October 1943 (25 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
10/01/43 Metapan Refrigerator Ship Mine Sunk Med-BlackSea None
10/04/43 Juan de Fuca Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/04/43 Hiram S. Maxim Liberty Bombed Damaged ApproachMed None
10/09/43 Yorkmar Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 11; AG 2
10/11/43 George H. Himes Liberty Torpedo Damaged Pacific None
10/11/43 John H. Couch Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 1; AG 1; Stevedore 1
10/13/43 Maine Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/13/43 H. D. Collier Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/14/43 James Marshall Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Unknown
10/14/43 Ball's Bluff Tanker Torpedo Damaged Eastcoast Unknown
10/14/43 William Floyd Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/15/43 Cotton Mather Liberty Bombed Damaged ApproachMed None
10/15/43 James Russell Lowell Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
10/19/43 Delisle Freighter Mine Sunk NAtlantic None
10/21/43 Josiah Bartlett Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/21/43 Bulkoil Tanker Collision Unknown NAtlantic Unknown
10/21/43 Gulfbelle Tanker Collision/Fire Damaged Eastcoast Crew 31; AG 20
10/21/43 Gulfland Tanker Collision/Fire Total loss Eastcoast Crew 34; AG 2
10/21/43 Tivives Freighter Aerial Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 1
10/22/43 Samuel H. Walker Freighter Torpedo Damaged Eastcoast None
10/23/43 Sea Serpent Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/23/43 Jonathan Worth Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/23/43 Cornelius Gilliam Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/23/43 James Iredell Liberty Bombed & fire Damaged Med-BlackSea None
10/26/43 James Longstreet Liberty Grounded Total loss Eastcoast None

Ships Sunk or Damaged November 1943 (15 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
11/01/43 Salmon P. Chase Liberty Strafing Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 1
11/01/43 Walter E. Ranger Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
11/06/43 Santa Elena (USAT) Troopship Aerial Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
11/07/43 Santa Elena (USAT) Troopship Collision Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 4
11/11/43 Cape San Juan Freighter Torpedo Sunk Pacific Army Troops 115
11/12/43 Pompoon (former Finish Atlas II) Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 22; AG 1
11/20/43 Joseph N. Teal Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
11/20/43 P. S. B. & D. Co. No. 5 Scow Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
11/20/43 P. S. B. & D. Co. No. 8 Scow Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
11/21/43 Altair Tanker Collision Total loss Eastcoast Crew 10; AG 8; Navy passengers 2
11/21/43 Bostonian [former Italian Anteo] Tanker (Panama) Collision Unknown Eastcoast None
11/23/43 Elizabeth Kellogg Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 8; AG 2
11/24/43 John P. Gaines Liberty Split Sunk Alaska Crew 3; AG 1; Army 7
11/24/43 Melville E. Stone Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 12; AG 3; Passenger 1
11/27/43 Charlotte P. Gilman Tanker Submarine encounter No Damage Pacific None

Ships Sunk or Damaged December 1943 (33 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
12/02/43 Grace Abbott Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
12/02/43 John Bascom Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 4; AG 10
12/02/43 John Harvey Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 42; AG 28; Army 10
12/02/43 John L. Motley Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 39; AG 24
12/02/43 John M. Schofield Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 2; AG 1; Passenger 1; but all suffered from Mustard gas burns from explosion of SS John Harvey
12/02/43 Joseph Wheeler Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 26; AG 16
12/02/43 Louis Hennepin Liberty Bombed Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
12/02/43 Lyman Abbott Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 2; AG 1; Army 1
12/02/43 Samuel J. Tilden Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 10; American Military 14; British Military 3
12/03/43 Leonidas S. Polk Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Crew 1
12/03/43 Touchet Tanker Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico AG 10
12/05/43 Louis A. Singteller Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/05/43 William Whipple Liberty Bombed Damaged Indian-Red Sea None
12/11/43 Suffolk Freighter Foundered Sunk Eastcoast Crew 37; AG 6
12/16/43 William S. Rosecrans Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/16/43 William T. Barry Liberty Collision Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
12/16/43 Blue Jacket Freighter Shelled by Allied ships Damaged NAtlantic None
12/16/43 John S. Copley Liberty Torpedo Damaged ApproachMed None
12/16/43 McDowell Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3
12/16/43 Nevada (USAT) Freighter Foundered Sunk NAtlantic Crew 24; AG 7; Army 4
12/20/43 James Withycombe Liberty Grounded Total loss Pacific None
12/23/43 Scotia Freighter Grounded Sunk Alaska None
12/24/43 Frederick Bartholdi Liberty Grounded Total loss NEAtlantic None
12/25/43 Unknown Liberty collided with Charles Carroll Liberty Collision Damaged NAtlantic None
12/25/43 Charles Carroll Liberty Collision Damaged NAtlantic None
12/26/43 Chapultepec Tanker Torpedo Damaged Caribbean None
12/26/43 Esso Buffalo Tanker Torpedo Damaged Caribbean None
12/26/43 Jose Navarro Liberty Torpedo Damaged Indian-Red Sea None
12/27/43 Jose Navarro Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
12/27/43 Elna (USAT) Freighter Grounded Total loss Alaska Unknown
12/28/43 Robert F. Hoke Liberty Torpedo Total loss Indian-Red Sea None
12/30/43 John S. Sargent Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/31/43 William Patterson Liberty Unknown