Chronological List of U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged during 1944

Total ships sunk or damaged in 1944 -- 333

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
00/00/44

David F. Houston

 Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic None
00/00/44 Grant Wood Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic None
01/01/44 William Patterson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]

Ships sunk or damaged during January 1944 (30 ships)
01/01/44 David W. Branch (USAT) Troopship Grounded Damaged Alaska Unknown
01/02/44 Albert Gallatin Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
01/05/44 Prince of Wales Oil screw Fire Sunk Alaska Unknown
01/06/44 Camas Meadows Tanker Collision Unknown Eastcoast None
01/06/44 Robert Erskine Liberty Split Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 1
01/06/44 William S. Rosecrans Liberty Mine Sunk Med-BlackSea None
01/10/44 Daniel Webster Liberty Aerial Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
01/12/44 Herman Melville Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/11/44 Joseph Smith Liberty Split Sunk NAtlantic None
01/16/44 Sumner I. Kimball Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 40; AG 30
01/19/44 Charles Henderson Liberty Collision Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
01/19/44 Plattsburg Socony Tanker Collision & fire Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
01/19/44 Leland Stanford Liberty Grounded Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
01/21/44 Samuel Dexter Liberty Split Sunk NAtlantic None
01/24/44 John Muir Liberty Bombed Damaged Pacific Seabees: some
01/25/44 Andrew George Curtin Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 2; AG 1
01/25/44 F. A. C. Muhlenberg Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 6; AG 1
01/25/44 Penelope Barker Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 10; AG 5; British Navy Doctor 1
01/25/44 Walter Camp Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
01/26/44 Hilary A. Herbert Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/26/44 Jonathan Elmer Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
01/26/44 John Banvard Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/29/44 Alexander Martin Liberty Strafed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
01/29/44 George Sterling Liberty Bombed Damaged Pacific U.S. Marines 2
01/29/44 Samuel Huntington Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 5
01/31/44 George S. Wasson Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
01/_/44 Cape Charles Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]

Ships sunk or damaged during February 1944 (21 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
02/01/44 George W. Childs Liberty Damaged by cargo and grounded Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
02/01/44 Edward Bates Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 1
02/01/44 Richmond P. Hobson Liberty Aerial Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
02/01/44 Stephen Crane Liberty Bombed Total loss Pacific Army 1
02/02/44 William H. Prescott Liberty Severe cracks Damaged NAtlantic None
02/06/44 Sea Corporal Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/06/44 ST-39 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
02/12/44 Francis Preston Blair Liberty Unknown Unknown Pacific None [AG wounded]
02/15/44 Elihu Yale Liberty Bombed Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 3; AG 2
02/17/44 John Walker Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea [AG wounded]
02/20/44 John Walker Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea [AG wounded]
02/22/44 George Cleeve Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 1
02/22/44 Peter Skene Ogden Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
02/23/44 E. G. Seubert Tanker Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 3; AG 3
02/25/44 El Coston Freighter (Panama) Collision Sunk NAtlantic Crew 9; AG 8
02/26/44 Mount Baker Freighter Fire Total loss Alaska Unknown (25% killed)
02/26/44 Murfreesboro Tanker Collision/fire Damaged NAtlantic Crew 26; AG 17
02/26/44 President Grant Troopship Grounded Total loss Pacific None
02/26/44 William H. Welch Liberty Split Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 35; AG 23; Passengers 3
02/27/44 Omaha [former Danish Frode] Freighter (Panama) Grounded Total loss Pacific None
02/29/44 F. Marion Crawford Liberty Shelled Damaged Med-BlackSea None

Ships sunk or damaged during March 1944 (23 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
03/04/44 Joel R. Poinsett Liberty Split Sunk NAtlantic None
03/06/44 Daniel Chester French Liberty Mine Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 9; AG 4; Army 24
03/06/44 Virginia Dare (GSA) Liberty Mine Sunk Med-BlackSea None
03/07/44 Valera Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Unknown
03/07/44 Herman Winter Freighter Grounded Total loss Eastcoast None
03/08/44 Norco Oil screw Fire Sunk Alaska Unknown
03/08/44 John Martin Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
03/08/44 Samuel Johnston Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea Crew 1; AG 1
03/09/44 Clark Mills Liberty Aerial Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
03/10/44 William B. Woods Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea AG 1; Army 51
03/13/44 H. D. Collier Tanker Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 33; AG 12
03/15/44 China Mail Freighter Bombed Damage Med-BlackSea None
03/16/44 Eldridge Gerry Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea AG 1
03/17/44 James Guthrie Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
03/17/44 Maiden Creek II Freighter Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea Crew 6; AG 5
03/18/44 Seakay Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic AG 1
03/19/44 John A. Poor Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 25; AG 9
03/19/44 Oriental Freighter Mine Damaged Pacific Unknown
03/24/44 Artemus Ward Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/24/44 Manassas Tanker Collision Unknown NEAtlantic None
03/29/44 Richard Hovey Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 3; AG 1; Japanese POW: Master and 3 crew
03/30/44 Richard Stockton Liberty Fire Damaged Med-BlackSea Unknown
03/_/44 James Iredell Liberty Weather damage and fractures Damaged Med-BlackSea None

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
04/01/44 Marion McKinley Bovard Liberty Unknown Unknown NAtlantic None [AG wounded]
04/01/44 John Straub Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
04/01/44 Owyhee Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]

Ships sunk or damaged during April 1944 (24 ships)
04/01/44 Jared Ingersoll Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/11/44 Jonathan Grout Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
04/11/44 Charles Piez Liberty Bombed & strafed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/12/44 Horace H. Lurton Liberty Shelled by Allied ship Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/14/44 FS-214 (USAT) Harborcraft Explosion Damaged Unknown Crew 1
04/16/44 Meyer London Liberty Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea None
04/16/44 Pan Pennsylvania Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 15; AG 10
04/16/44 Thomas G. Masaryk Liberty Torpedo Total loss Med-BlackSea None
04/17/44 Alexander Graham Bell Liberty Mine Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/17/44 James Guthrie Liberty Mine Total loss Med-BlackSea None
04/18/44 Mobiloil Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
04/19/44 John Straub Liberty Torpedo Sunk Alaska Crew 39; AG 14
04/20/44 Fitzhugh Lee Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
04/20/44 Stephen F. Austin Liberty Torpedo Damaged Med-BlackSea None
04/20/44 John Sedgwick Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
04/20/44 Paul Hamilton Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea Crew 47; AG 29; Army Air Force 504
04/21/44 P. A. F. No. 27 Scow Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
04/21/44 John Armstrong Liberty Mine Damaged Med-BlackSea AG 1
04/22/44 George Popham Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
04/26/44 Colin [former Italian Villarperosa] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 1
04/30/44 William S. Thayer Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 23; AG 7; Passengers 13

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
05/02/44 John Morton Liberty Collision Unknown Eastcoast Unknown

Ships sunk or damaged during May 1944 (4 ships)
05/11/44 John Banvard Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
05/25/44 Pan Massachusetts II Tanker Explosion Damaged NEAtlantic Crew 3
05/31/44 Henry Bergh Liberty Grounded Total loss Westcoast None

 

Ships sunk or damaged during June 1944 (55 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
06/05/44 Pillory [former Danish Jonna] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 21; AG 4
06/06/44 Artemus Ward Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/07/44 Baialoide [former Italian Liana] Freighter Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/07/44 Francis C. Harrington Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
06/08/44 Artemus Ward Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Benjamin Contee Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Courageous Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 David O. Saylor Concrete ship Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Galveston Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 George S. Wasson Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 George W. Childs Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 James Iredell Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 James W. Marshall Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Matt W. Ransom Liberty Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Victory Sword Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Willis A. Slater Concrete ship Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Vitruvius Concrete ship Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 West Grama Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 West Honaker Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/08/44 Wilscox Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/09/44 Hannibal Hamlin Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/09/44 Ezra Weston Liberty Shelled/fire Damaged Normandy Army 5
06/09/44 William Carson Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/09/44 Horace Gray Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Horace Gray Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Charles Morgan Liberty Bombed Sunk Normandy Crew 1; Army 7
06/10/44 William A. Graham Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Thomas J. Jarvis Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Tarleton Brown Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
06/10/44 Eleazar Wheelock Liberty Shelled Damaged Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/11/44 John Hay Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/11/44 West Cheswald Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/11/44 West Nohno Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/13/44 Henry S. Lane Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/13/44 Lark Fishing Boat Shelled Damaged NAtlantic None
06/14/44 Gulfcrest Tanker Collision Damaged Caribbean None
06/15/44 Hannibal Hamlin Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/17/44 Jesse Billingsley Liberty Collision Damaged Eastcoast None
06/17/44 Maurice J. Tracy Freighter Collision Sunk Eastcoast Unknown
06/18/44 William N. Pendleton Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/19/44 Powder River Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/20/44 Jim Bridger Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/22/44 Cyrus H. K. Curtis Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
06/24/44 Exhibitor Freighter Collision Unknown Med-BlackSea Unknown
06/25/44 Cyrus H. K. Curtis Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
06/28/44 Charles W. Eliot Liberty Mine Sunk Normandy None
06/29/44 Edward M. House Liberty Torpedo Damaged Normandy None
06/29/44 H. G. Blasdel Liberty Torpedo Total loss Normandy Army 76
06/29/44 James A. Farrell Liberty Torpedo Total loss Normandy Army 4
06/29/44 John A. Treutlen Liberty Torpedo Sunk Normandy AG 1
06/_/44 Olambala [former Italian Antonietta] Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/_/44 Baialoide [former Italian Liana] Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/_/44 Audacious [former Italian Belvedere] Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/_/44 Flight Command Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/__/44 Unknown ship Unknown Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]

 

Ships sunk or damaged during July 1944 (22 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
07/02/44 Jean Nicolet Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 30; AG 19; Passengers 26 (taken on deck of submarine and murdered by Japanese); Japanese POW: 2 crew, 1 passenger
07/04/44 Kittanning Tanker Torpedo Damaged Caribbean None
07/05/44 Sea Porpoise Freighter Torpedo or Mine Damaged Normandy None [Book: Woody; Cisco; & Me by Jim Longhi]
07/06/44 Stephen H. Long Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea? None [AG wounded]
07/06/44 Esso Harrisburg Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 4; AG 4
07/07/44 West Nilus Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/07/44 John Grier Hibben Liberty Shipboard accident None Normandy Crew 1
07/12/44 Toltec Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/12/44 George Mathews Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/14/44 Kofresi Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/17/44 E. A. Bryan Liberty Explosion Sunk Westcoast Crew 31 AG 13
07/17/44 Quinault Victory Victory Explosion Sunk Westcoast Crew 36; AG 17
07/18/44 B. T. Co. 4 Gas screw Foundered Sunk Alaska Unknown
07/20/44 William Carson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/20/44 Harper's Ferry Tanker Fire Damaged Med-BlackSea None
07/24/44 William Gaston Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
07/25/44 David Starr Jordan Liberty Bombed & strafed Damaged Normandy None
07/25/44 Robin Goodfellow Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 41; AG 28
07/26/44 Sahale Hog Islander Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/28/44 Illinoian Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/31/44 Exmouth Freighter Mine Sunk NEAtlantic None
07/_/44 Lebaron Russell Briggs Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic None

Ships sunk or damaged during August 1944 (25 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
08/01/44 Extavia Freighter Mine Damaged Pacific Unknown
08/04/44 Lena Luckenbach Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/04/44 Pennsylvanian Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/06/44 Potter Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/07/44 William L. Marcy Liberty Torpedo Total loss Normandy British Army 2
08/08/44 Ezra Weston Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic None
08/12/44 Kentuckian Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/13/44 Alcoa Leader Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/14/44 Bostonian Tanker (Panama) Gas leak None Unknown Crew 1
08/15/44 Alexander A. Dallas Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/15/44 Kemp P. Battle Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/15/44 William Floyd Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
08/15/44 Tarleton Brown Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/18/44 Caroline Oil screw Grounded Total loss Alaska Unknown
08/18/44 Albert A. Michelson Liberty Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
08/18/44 Robin Gray Freighter Deliberately Sunk Sunk Normandy None
08/20/44 Richard Montgomery Liberty Grounded and split Total loss NEAtlantic None
08/23/44 Louis Kossuth Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
08/24/44 Sea Fiddler Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
08/26/44 Exford Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/28/44 Cape Trafalgar Freighter Explosion Damaged Pacific Crew 3
08/28/44 John Barry Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 2
08/30/44 Jacksonville Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 48; AG 30
8/15/44 to 9/25/44 Marshall Elliott Liberty Torpedo Damaged Unknown None
08/_/44 Pan Georgia Tanker Grounded Damaged Eastcoast Unknown

Ships sunk or damaged during September 1944 (20 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
09/01/44 Daniel Huger Liberty Unknown Unknown Med-BlackSea None [AG wounded]
09/07/44 John C. Calhoun Liberty Explosion Total loss Pacific Army 1
09/09/44 Richard Henry Dana Liberty Grounded Unknown Pacific Unknown
09/09/44 Hindoo [former Danish Broholm] Freighter (Panama) Collision Sunk Caribbean None
09/12/44 George Ade Liberty Torpedo Damaged Eastcoast None
09/14/44 Thomas Tracy Freighter Grounded Total loss Eastcoast None
09/15/44 ST-672 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk NAtlantic Crew 5
09/16/44 George Middlemas Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1
09/18/44 John Sherman Liberty Collision Unknown Caribbean Unknown
09/19/44 ST-539 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1
09/22/44 Yukon Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
09/23/44 ST-675 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
09/26/44 Elihu Thomson Liberty Mine Damaged Pacific Unknown
09/26/44 James L. Ackerson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
09/26/44 ST-719 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk NAtlantic Crew 2
09/27/44 Don Marquis Liberty Collision and fire Total loss Pacific Army 3
09/27/44 Missionary Ridge Tanker Collision Damaged Pacific None
09/29/44 Edward H. Crockett Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
09/26/44 James T. Wing Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
09/30/44 Carl G. Barth Liberty Strafed Damaged Pacific None

Ships sunk or damaged during October 1944 (27 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
10/00/44 Antigua Freighter Collision Damaged Pacific None
10/00/44 E. A. Christensen Liberty Collision Damaged Pacific None
10/02/44 Johns Hopkins Liberty Mine Damaged Med-BlackSea None
10/04/44 Cotton Valley Tanker Mine Damaged Med-BlackSea Unknown
10/06/44 Elinor Wylie Liberty Mine Total loss Med-BlackSea None
10/06/44 George Popham Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
10/14/44 Howard L. Gibson Liberty Collision-fire Total loss ApproachMed AG 2
10/15/44 LT-221 (USAT) Harborcraft Mine Unknown Med-BlackSea Crew 9; Navy 2; Civilians 2
10/18/44 ST-511 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk NAtlantic Crew 9
10/18/44 ST-720 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk NAtlantic Crew 7
10/19/44 ST-731 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Eastcoast Crew 9
10/20/44 ST-725 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1
10/24/44 Augustus Thomas Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
10/24/44 David Dudley Field Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
10/25/44 Adoniram Judson (GSA) Liberty Bombed Damaged Philippines None
10/25/44 John W. Foster Liberty Strafed Damaged Philippines None [AG wounded]
10/26/44 Rouseville Tanker Mine Total loss NEAtlantic Unknown
10/26/44 Leonidas Merritt Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None [AG wounded]
10/26/44 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Liberty Bombed Damaged Philippines Crew 1; AG 1
10/27/44 Cape Romano Freighter Bombed Damaged Philippines None
10/27/44 LT-62 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1 accidental fall
10/28/44 United Victory Victory Strafed Damaged Pacific None
10/30/44 John A. Johnson Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 4; AG 5; Army 1 (Killed by Japanese) [Book: Peter; the Odyssey of a Merchant Mariner]
10/30/44 ST-674 (USAT) Harborcraft Plane Crash enroute to Tug NA Unknown Crew 3
10/31/44 Simon Benson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/31/44 John Banvard Liberty Grounded Total loss NAtlantic Unknown
10/31/44 Francis G. Newlands Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1

Ships sunk or damaged during November 1944 (36 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
11/02/44 Fort Lee Tanker Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 16; AG 9
11/02/44 Matthew P. Deady Liberty Kamikaze & Bombed Damaged Philippines AG 4; Army 26
11/04/44 Cape Constance Freighter Bombed & Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
11/04/44 Frank J. Cuhel Liberty Shelled Damaged Philippines None
11/08/44 William Mulholland Liberty Fire Damaged Unknown None
11/11/44 Lee S. Overman Liberty Mine Total loss Normandy None
11/12/44 Alexander Majors Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 2
11/12/44 Jeremiah M. Daily Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 4; AG 2; Army 100?
11/12/44 Leonidas Merritt Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 1; AG 1
11/12/44 Morrison R. Waite Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Army 21
11/12/44 Thomas Nelson Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines AG 4; Army 164
11/12/44 Carlos Carrillo Liberty Unknown Unknown Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/12/44 William A. Coulter Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
11/14/44 Floyd B. Olson Liberty Bombed Damaged Philippines None
11/16/44 Leonidas Merritt Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/16/44 Theodore Parker Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
11/17/44 Augustus Thomas Liberty Bombed Sunk Philippines None
11/17/44 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Liberty Bombed Total loss Philippines None
11/17/44 Gilbert Stuart Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 5; AG 1; Army 5
11/17/44 LT-371 (USAT) Harborcraft Stranded Unknown Unknown Crew 2
11/18/44 Cape Romano Freighter Bombed Damaged Philippines None
11/18/44 Amerigo Vespucci Liberty Unknown Unknown Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/18/44 Robert Louis Stevenson Liberty Unknown Unknown Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/18/44 Nicholas J. Sinnott Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
11/19/44 Cape Romano Freighter Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
11/19/44 Alcoa Pioneer Freighter Kamikaze Damaged Philippines AG 6
11/20/44 Prickaree Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
11/20/44 Fort Dearborn Tanker Shelled Damaged Pacific None
11/23/44 Gus W. Darnell Liberty Aerial Torpedo Total loss Philippines None
11/23/44 William D. Burnham Liberty Torpedo Total loss Normandy Crew 10; AG 9
11/24/44 William C. C. Claiborne Liberty Unknown Unknown Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/26/44 Anson Burlingame Liberty Unknown Unknown Philippines None [AG wounded]
11/26/44 Howell Lykes Troopship Bombed Damaged Philippines None
11/28/44 LT-389 (USAT) Harborcraft Mine Unknown Normandy Crew 11
11/29/44 William C. C. Claiborne Liberty Shelled Damaged Philippines None
11/30/44 William Paca Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
12/01/44 Elinor Wylie Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/01/44 Dominican Victory Victory Grounded Damaged Pacific Unknown

Ships sunk or damaged during December 1944 (49 ships)
12/01/44 Arizpa Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
12/03/44 Francis Asbury Liberty Mine Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 10; AG 7
12/04/44 LT-239 (USAT) Harborcraft Collision Sunk Alaska Unknown
12/05/44 Antoine Saugrain Liberty Aerial Torpedo Damaged Philippines None
12/05/44 John Evans Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
12/05/44 Marcus Daly (GSA) Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
12/06/44 Marcus Daly (GSA) Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None [AG wounded]
12/06/44 Antoine Saugrain Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Philippines None
12/10/44 Dan Beard Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 17; AG 12
12/10/44 Marcus Daly (GSA) Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 2; AG 1; Army over 200
12/10/44 William S. Ladd Liberty Kamikaze Sunk Philippines None
12/12/44 Lookout [former Danish Anna Maersk] Freighter (Panama) Struck wreck Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
12/14/44 North Wind Freighter Stranded Total loss Alaska None
12/16/44 Arizpa Freighter V2 rocket attack ashore None NEAtlantic AG 3
12/16/44 Shoemaker Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 3
12/16/44 Timothy Bloodworth Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
12/16/44 Oscar Chappell Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
12/16/44 Oran M. Roberts Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/16/44 Cavalcade [former Danish Gertrude Maersk] Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 Joseph Holt Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 James Bowdoin Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 Harold Pratt Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
12/16/44 Daniel Drake Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 Clinton Kelly Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 Christopher Gadsden Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 3
12/16/44 Charles D. Poston Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
12/16/44 Abraham Baldwin Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/17/44 William Paca Liberty Unknown Unknown NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/18/44 Steel Traveler Freighter Mine Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/19/44 Y-75 (USAT) Harborcraft Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1
12/20/44 Samuel H. Cobb Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/20/44 Boulder Victory Victory Mine Damaged Pacific Unknown
12/21/44 Juan de Fuca Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
12/23/44 Alan-A-Dale [former Danish Norvest] Freighter (Panama) Midget submarine Sunk NEAtlantic None
12/24/44 Robert J. Walker Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 2
12/24/44 Timothy Bloodworth Liberty Rocket Damaged NEAtlantic None
12/26/44 James H. Breasted Liberty Bombed Total loss Philippines None
12/27/44 Francisco Morazan Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
12/28/44 John Burke Liberty Kamikaze Sunk Philippines Crew 40; AG 29
12/28/44 William Sharon Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines Crew 6; AG 4; Army 1
12/29/44 Arthur Sewall Liberty Torpedo Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/29/44 Black Hawk Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 1
12/29/44 Hobart Baker Liberty Bombed Sunk Philippines Crew 1
12/30/44 Francisco Morazan Liberty Kamikaze Damaged Philippines None
12/30/44 Juan de Fuca Liberty Aerial Torpedo Split & repaired Philippines Army 2
 12/31/44 Simeon G. Reed Liberty Bombed and grounded Unknown Philippines  Unknown
_/_/44 Atlantic Water Unknown Grounded Damaged NAtlantic Unknown

 

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