U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged in Murmansk Run, Normandy, Northeast Atlantic, Northern European ports, and Region unknown

Murmansk Run (85 ships)

Murmansk 1940 (1 ship)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/01/40 City of Flint Freighter Collision Damaged Murmansk None

Murmansk 1942 (63 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
03/28/42 Ballot [former Italian Alberta] Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 9; British Gunners 2; Survivors lost limbs
03/28/42 Raceland [former Italian Ircania] Freighter (Panama) Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 35; German POW: 12
03/29/42 Bateau [former Italian Euro] Freighter (Panama) Shelled Sunk Murmansk Crew 41; German POW: 5
03/30/42 Effingham Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 12
04/08/42 El Estero Freighter (Panama) Unknown Personnel death Murmansk Crew 1
04/12/42 Stone Street [former Italian Clara] Freighter (Panama) Air & submarine Damaged Murmansk None
04/13/42 El Occidente Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 21
05/15/42 Yaka Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
05/18/42 Deer Lodge Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
05/25/42 Carlton Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
05/26/42 Carlton Freighter Bombed No additinal damage Murmansk None
05/26/42 Syros Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 11; AG 1
05/27/42 Alamar Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk None
05/27/42 Alcoa Banner Hog Islander Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
05/27/42 Mormacsul Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
05/27/42 Deer Lodge Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
05/28/42 City of Joliet Freighter Bombed & Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
06/03/42 Steel Worker Freighter Mine Sunk Murmansk None [Book: There Go The Ships by Robert Carse]
06/13/42 Yaka Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
06/21/42 Alcoa Cadet Freighter Mine Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
05/27/42 Deer Lodge Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
07/04/42 Christopher Newport Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
07/04/42 William Hooper Liberty Aerial & submarine Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
07/04/42 Washington Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
07/05/42 Carlton Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3; German POW: 31
07/05/42 Daniel Morgan Liberty Bombed & Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 4
07/05/42 Fairfield City Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 8; AG 9
07/05/42 Heffron Freighter Mine Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
07/05/42 Honomu Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 12; British Gunner 1; German POW 6
07/05/42 Hybert Freighter Mine Sunk Murmansk None
07/05/42 John Randolph Liberty Mine Sunk Murmansk Crew 5
07/05/42 Exterminator [former Italian Mongioia] Freighter Mine Damaged Murmansk None
07/05/42 Massmar Freighter Mine Sunk Murmansk Crew 17; AG 5; Alamar survivors: Crew 23; AG 4
07/05/42 Pan Kraft Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 2
07/05/42 Peter Kerr Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk None
07/05/42 Richard Henry Lee Liberty Mine Damaged Murmansk None
07/05/42 Washington Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 1; most suffered from exposure & frozen limbs
07/06/42 John Witherspoon Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
07/06/42 Bellingham Freighter Shelled Damaged Murmansk None [AG wounded]
07/06/42 Pan Atlantic Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 18; AG 7; Survivors torpedoed on Bellingham; all survived
07/07/42 Alcoa Ranger Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Murmansk None
07/07/42 Olopana Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Murmansk Crew 5; AG 1
07/10/42 El Capitan Freighter (Panama) Bombed Sunk Murmansk None
07/09/42 Hoosier Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
07/10/42 Hoosier Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/13/42 Africander [former Italian Aussa] Freighter (Panama) Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/13/42 John Penn Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
09/13/42 Macbeth [former Italian Ida Z. O.] Freighter (Panama) Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/13/42 Oliver Ellsworth Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk AG 1
09/13/42 Oregonian Freighter Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 25; AG 5
09/13/42 Campfire Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
09/14/42 Mary Luckenbach Hog Islander Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 41; AG 25; debris from explosion injured crew of SS Nathaniel Greene
09/14/42 Nathanael Greene (GSA) Liberty Shrapnel from SS Mary Luckenbach Damaged Murmansk AG 1
09/14/42 Lafayette Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
09/14/42 Wacosta Freighter Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/18/42 Kentucky Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/20/42 Silver Sword Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
09/22/42 Bellingham Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
11/04/42 William Clark Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 18; AG 13
11/05/42 John H. B. Latrobe Liberty Shelled Damaged Murmansk None
11/17/42 Ironclad Freighter Grounded Total loss Murmansk None; Lost on SS Puerto Rican: Crew 1
12/25/42 Ballot Freighter (Panama) Shelled Sunk Murmansk Unknown
12/26/42 John Walker Liberty Bombed Damaged Murmansk Crew 1
12/31/42 Calobre [Panama] Freighter Shelled Damaged Murmansk None [AG wounded]

Murmansk 1943 (10 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/27/43 El Oriente Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk AG 1
01/28/43 City of Omaha Freighter Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
02/03/43 Greylock Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
02/17/43 Nicholas Gilman Liberty Unknown Unknown Murmansk None [AG wounded]
03/05/43 Executive Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 8; AG 1
03/05/43 Richard Bland Liberty Torpedo Damaged Murmansk None
03/08/43 J. L. M. Curry Liberty Foundered Sunk Murmansk None
03/09/43 Puerto Rican Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 39; AG 25
03/10/43 Richard Bland Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 19; AG 15
04/18/43 Thomas Hartley Liberty Bombed Damaged Murmansk None (60 air attacks in Murmansk between March 1 and November 1; 1943)

Murmansk 1944 (4 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/25/44 Andrew George Curtin Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 2; AG 1
01/25/44 Penelope Barker Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 10; AG 5; British Navy Doctor 1
04/30/44 William S. Thayer Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 23; AG 7; Passengers 13
09/29/44 Edward H. Crockett Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 1

Murmansk 1945 (6 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
02/14/45 Horace Gray Liberty Torpedo Total loss Murmansk None
02/17/45 Thomas Scott Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
02/23/45 Henry Bacon Liberty Aerial Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 16; AG 12
02/28/45 Alcedo [former Danish Tanja] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
03/20/45 Horace Bushnell Liberty Torpedo Total loss Murmansk Crew 5
03/20/45 Thomas Donaldson Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 4


Murmansk 1946 (1 ship)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/2/46 William H. Webb Liberty Grounded Total loss Murmansk Unknown

 

Normandy (73 ships)

Normandy 1944 (69 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
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 Willis A. Slater 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 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 William Carson Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
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 Horace Gray Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Horace Gray Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Thomas J. Jarvis Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Eleazar Wheelock Liberty Shelled Damaged Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/10/44 Charles Morgan Liberty Bombed Sunk Normandy Crew 1; Army 7
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]
06/15/44 Hannibal Hamlin Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/18/44 William N. Pendleton Liberty Unknown Unknown Normandy 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
06/25/44 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 Audacious [former Italian Belvedere] Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/_/44 Unknown ship Unknown Unknown Unknown Normandy None [AG wounded]
06/_/44 Baialoide [former Italian Liana] Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
06/_/44 Flight Command Freighter (Panama) Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/05/44 Sea Porpoise Freighter Torpedo or Mine Damaged Normandy None [Book: Woody; Cisco; & Me]
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
07/14/44 Kofresi Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/25/44 David Starr Jordan Liberty Bombed & strafed Damaged Normandy None
07/26/44 Sahale Hog Islander Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
07/28/44 Illinoian Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
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
08/12/44 Kentuckian Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/13/44 Alcoa Leader Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
08/18/44 Robin Gray Freighter Deliberately Sunk Sunk Normandy None
08/23/44 Louis Kossuth Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
08/26/44 Exford Freighter Deliberately Sunk Deliberately Sunk Normandy None
09/19/44 ST-539 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1
10/06/44 George Popham Liberty Mine Damaged Normandy None
10/20/44 ST-725 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1
10/27/44 LT-62 (USAT) Harborcraft None None Normandy Crew 1 accidental fall
11/11/44 Lee S. Overman Liberty Mine Total loss Normandy None
11/23/44 William D. Burnham Liberty Torpedo Total loss Normandy Crew 10; AG 9
11/28/44 LT-389 (USAT) Harborcraft Mine Unknown Normandy Crew 11

Normandy 1945 (4 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/16/45 Marina Freighter Mine Damaged Normandy None
04/11/45 Morgantown Victory Victory Mine Damaged Normandy None
04/23/45 Sverre Helmerson Liberty Torpedo or Mine Damaged Normandy Unknown
12/23/45 Duncan L. Clinch Liberty Mine Sunk Normandy None

Northeast Atlantic and Northern European ports (154 ships)

Detained or Captured Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1939 (47 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
09/03/39 Saccarappa Hog Islander Detained by British Released 5 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
09/05/39 Black Osprey Freighter Detained by British Released 8 days NEAtlantic None
09/05/39 Lehigh Freighter Detained by British Released 2 days NEAtlantic None
09/07/39 Warrior Freighter Detained by British Released 11 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
09/12/39 Black Eagle Freighter Detained by British Released 7 days NEAtlantic None
09/14/39 City of Joliet Freighter Detained by French Released 21 days; Cargo examined NEAtlantic None
09/16/39 Shickshinny Hog Islander Detained by British Released 3 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
09/17/39 Black Condor Freighter Detained by British Released 8 days NEAtlantic None
09/19/39 Black Hawk Freighter Detained by British Released 16 days NEAtlantic None
09/20/39 Ethan Allen Freighter Detained by British Released 11 days NEAtlantic None
09/20/39 Ipswich Freighter Detained by British Released 11 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
09/22/39 Syros Freighter Detained by French Released 19 days NEAtlantic None
09/27/39 Executive Freighter Detained by French Released 3 days NEAtlantic None
10/05/39 Exeter Freighter Detained by French Released 2 days NEAtlantic None
10/06/39 Black Gull Freighter Detained by British Released 6 days; Mail removed NEAtlantic None
10/06/39 Black Falcon Freighter Detained by British Released 12 days NEAtlantic None
10/07/39 Black Heron Freighter Detained by British Released 10 days NEAtlantic None
10/10/39 Patrick Henry Freighter Detained by British Released 13 days NEAtlantic None
10/11/39 Sundance Freighter Detained by British Released 15 days NEAtlantic None
10/11/39 Black Tern Freighter Detained by British Released 18 days; Mail removed NEAtlantic None
10/13/39 Iberville Freighter Detained by British Released 12 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
10/13/39 Oakman Freighter Detained by British Released 15 days NEAtlantic None
10/14/39 Scanstates Freighter Detained by British Released 7 days NEAtlantic None
10/14/39 Exporter Freighter Detained by British Released 14 days NEAtlantic None
10/14/39 Nashaba Freighter Detained by French Released 12 days NEAtlantic None
10/16/39 Gateway City Freighter Detained by British Released 16 days, Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
10/17/39 Cranford Freighter Detained by British Released 5 days NEAtlantic None
10/18/39 West Hobomac Freighter Detained by British Released 8 days NEAtlantic None
10/22/39 Endicott Freighter Detained by French Released 12 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
10/22/39 West Gambo Freighter Detained by French Released 12 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
10/23/39 Tulsa Freighter Detained by British Released 18 days NEAtlantic None
10/24/39 Wacosta Freighter Detained by British Released 16 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
10/25/39 Black Eagle Freighter Detained by British Released 10 days NEAtlantic None
10/30/39 Scanpenn Freighter Detained by British Released 13 days NEAtlantic None
10/30/39 Hybert Freighter Detained by British Released 7 days NEAtlantic None
10/31/39 Black Osprey Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None
11/05/39 Black Condor Freighter Detained by British Released 13 days; Cargo and Mail removed NEAtlantic None
11/05/39 Scanmail Freighter Detained by British Released 17 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
11/11/39 Yaka Freighter Detained by British Released; Cargo examined NEAtlantic None
11/13/39 Black Hawk Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None
11/16/39 Lafcomo Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None
11/16/39 West Harshaw Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None
11/17/39 Black Gull Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None
11/27/39 Effingham Freighter Detained by British Released 11 days NEAtlantic None
11/27/39 Azalea City Freighter Detained by British Released 15 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
11/28/39 Winston Salem Freighter Detained by British Released 10 days; Cargo removed NEAtlantic None
12/05/39 Yaka Freighter Detained by British Released 2 days NEAtlantic None

Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1940 (1 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/03/40 Mormacsun Freighter Detained by British Released NEAtlantic None

 

Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1942 (2 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
09/01/42 Seminole Unknown Seized in France Taken over by Germans in France NEAtlantic Unknown
10/29/42 Pan New York Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 26; AG 17

Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1943 (10 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/09/43 Louise Lykes Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 50; AG 34; Army 10
02/16/43 Zacapa Freighter None None NEAtlantic Crew 2 Killed in air attack ashore
02/21/43 Rosario Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 30; AG 3
03/07/43 Samuel F. B. Morse (I) Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
03/09/43 Malantic Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 19; AG 5; Passenger 1
07/25/43 Samuel F. B. Morse (I) Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
07/25/43 Henry Wilson Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
10/09/43 Yorkmar Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 11; AG 2
12/03/43 Leonidas S. Polk Liberty Collision Unknown NEAtlantic Crew 1
12/24/43 Frederick Bartholdi Liberty Grounded Total loss NEAtlantic None

Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1944 (30 ships)
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
01/31/44 George S. Wasson Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
02/01/44 George W. Childs Liberty Damaged by cargo and grounded Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
02/26/44 William H. Welch Liberty Split Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 35; AG 23; Passengers 3
03/18/44 Seakay Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic AG 1
03/24/44 Artemus Ward Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/24/44 Manassas Tanker Collision Unknown NEAtlantic None
04/22/44 George Popham Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
05/25/44 Pan Massachusetts II Tanker Explosion Damaged NEAtlantic Crew 3
07/_/44 Lebaron Russell Briggs Liberty Collision Unknown damage NEAtlantic None
07/31/44 Exmouth Freighter Mine Sunk NEAtlantic None
08/08/44 Ezra Weston Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic None
08/20/44 Richard Montgomery Liberty Grounded and split Total loss NEAtlantic None
08/30/44 Jacksonville Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 48; AG 30
09/22/44 Yukon Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
10/26/44 Rouseville Tanker Mine Total loss NEAtlantic Unknown
11/16/44 Theodore Parker Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
11/30/44 William Paca Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
12/01/44 Arizpa Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
12/03/44 Francis Asbury Liberty Mine Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 10; AG 7
12/10/44 Dan Beard Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 17; AG 12
12/12/44 Lookout [former Danish Anna Maersk] Freighter (Panama) Struck wreck Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
12/16/44 Arizpa Freighter V2 rocket attack ashore None NEAtlantic AG 3
12/17/44 William Paca Liberty Unknown Unknown NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/18/44 Steel Traveler Freighter Mine Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/23/44 Alan-A-Dale [former Danish Norvest] Freighter (Panama) Midget submarine Sunk NEAtlantic None
12/24/44 Timothy Bloodworth Liberty Rocket Damaged NEAtlantic None
12/29/44 Arthur Sewall Liberty Torpedo Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 2
12/29/44 Black Hawk Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 1

Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1945 (36 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/08/45 Blenheim Freighter Bombed Damaged NEAtlantic Army Several; Civilian 18
01/09/45 Jonas Lie Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 2
01/__/46 Luray Victory Victory Grounded Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
01/11/45 Roanoke (USAT) Refrigerator Ship Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 2; AG 2
01/14/45 Michael Dekovats Liberty Rocket Damaged NEAtlantic None
01/16/45 James Harrod Liberty Collision & fire Total loss NEAtlantic AG 4
01/16/45 Raymond B. Stevens Liberty Collision Damaged NEAtlantic None
01/21/45 George Hawley Liberty Torpedo Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 2
01/22/45 Alcoa Banner Hog Islander Bombed Sunk salvaged scuttled NEAtlantic Crew 2
01/27/45 Ruben Dario Liberty Torpedo Damaged NEAtlantic None
01/28/45 Will Rogers Liberty None None NEAtlantic Crew 2 in V-2 Rocket attack ashore
02/06/45 Henry B. Plant Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 9; AG 7
02/06/45 James Otis Liberty Grounded Total loss NEAtlantic None
02/23/45 Jane G. Swisshelm Liberty Rocket Damaged NEAtlantic None
02/26/45 Nashaba Freighter Torpedo or Mine Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 1; Pilot 1
02/28/45 Soreldoc (USAT) Freighter Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 15
03/01/45 Robert L. Vann Liberty Mine Sunk NEAtlantic None
03/20/45 Hadley F. Brown Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/21/45 James Eagan Layne Liberty Torpedo Total loss NEAtlantic None
03/21/45 John R. Park Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic None
03/23/45 Charles D. McIver Liberty Mine or midget submarine Sunk NEAtlantic None
04/07/45 James W. Nesmith Liberty Torpedo Total loss NEAtlantic None
04/08/45 Y-17 (USAT) Harborcraft Midget submarine Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 16; AG 1; Army 2
04/09/45 Solomon Juneau Liberty Torpedo Damaged NEAtlantic AG 2
04/12/45 Will Rogers Liberty Torpedo Damaged NEAtlantic None
04/18/45 Cyrus H. McCormick Liberty Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 4; AG 2
04/22/45 Benjamin H. Bristow Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
05/08/45 Horace Binney Liberty Mine Sunk NEAtlantic None
05/27/45 John Woolman Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
06/04/45 Colin P. Kelly, Jr. Liberty Mine Total loss NEAtlantic None
06/19/45 Calvin Coolidge Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
08/06/45 Lucien B. Maxwell Liberty Grounded Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
10/06/45 Charles M. Hall Liberty Submerged object Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
10/24/45 Charles C. Glover Liberty Grounded Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
11/20/45 Charles C. Glover Liberty Mine Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
11/_/45 Leland Stanford Liberty Grounded Unknown NEAtlantic Unknown
12/16/45 Hilton Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None


Northeast Atlantic and Northern Europe 1946-1950 (28 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
01/30/46 Antietam Liberty Mine Total loss NEAtlantic Crew 1
02/26/46 Cyrus Adler Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/03/46 Minor C. Keith Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/09/46 William L. Davidson Liberty Grounded Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
03/09/46 Lord Delaware Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
03/16/46 Byron Darnton Liberty Grounded and split Total loss NEAtlantic Unknown
03/22/46 Robert J. Collier Liberty Grounded Total loss NEAtlantic Unknown
03/23/46 Jean Lykes Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
04/30/46 Georgetown Victory Victory Grounded Total loss NEAtlantic None
05/05/46 Thomas Heyward Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
08/27/46 Frontenac Victory Victory Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
09/04/46 David Caldwell Liberty Grounded Damaged NEAtlantic Crew 10
09/07/46 Edmund B. Alexander (USAT) Troopship Mine Damaged NEAtlantic None
09/12/46 Helena Modjeska Liberty Grounded Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
10/30/46 Charles Bulfinch Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
12/02/46 Blue Island Victory Victory Collision Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
12/24/46 Northeastern Victory Victory Grounded Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
12/27/46 Am-Mer-Mar Liberty Grounded Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
09/22/47 New London Tanker Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
12/10/47 Fort Lane Tanker Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
12/20/47 Robert Dale Owen Liberty Mine Sunk NEAtlantic Unknown
01/05/48 Pioneer Cove Unknown Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
02/12/48 Gateway City Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
04/09/48 Cape Georgia Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
05/11/48 Clifford E. Ashby Liberty Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
10/16/49 Maiden Creek Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown
08/08/50 American Planter Freighter Mine Damaged NEAtlantic Unknown

Region not known 1940-1945 (89 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
03/16/42 Alkaliner Unknown Unknown Sunk Unknown Unknown
06/04/42 President Fillmore (USAT) Troopship Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/12/43 Uruguay Troopship Collision Damaged Unknown Army 13
04/23/43 Cities Service Ohio Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
05/19/43 Josiah Bartlett Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/04/43 Joseph N. Teal Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/30/43 Pierre S. Dupont Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/13/43 James R. Randall Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/01/43 Samuel Huntington Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/06/43 Delbrazil Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/27/43 ST-165 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
09/06/43 James Monroe Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
09/06/43 Indiana Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
09/09/43 ST-35 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 2
10/04/43 Juan de Fuca Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
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 William Floyd Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
10/21/43 Josiah Bartlett Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
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]
11/01/43 Walter E. Ranger Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
11/20/43 Joseph N. Teal Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/05/43 Louis A. Singteller Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/16/43 William S. Rosecrans Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
43 or 44 James A. Butts Liberty Mine Damaged Unknown Unknown
12/30/43 John S. Sargent Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/31/43 William Patterson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/_/44 Cape Charles Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/01/44 William Patterson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/12/44 Herman Melville Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/06/44 Sea Corporal Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/06/44 ST-39 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
03/08/44 John Martin Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown 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]
04/11/44 Jonathan Grout Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
04/14/44 FS-214 (USAT) Harborcraft Explosion Damaged Unknown Crew 1
04/18/44 Mobiloil Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/19/44 Powder River Tanker Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/12/44 Toltec Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/12/44 George Mathews Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
07/20/44 William Carson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
08/14/44 Bostonian Tanker (Panama) Gas leak None Unknown Crew 1
08/24/44 Sea Fiddler Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
8/15/44 to 9/25/44 Marshall Elliott Liberty Torpedo Damaged Unknown None
09/16/44 George Middlemas Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1
09/23/44 ST-675 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 1
09/26/44 James L. Ackerson Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
09/26/44 James T. Wing Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
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 Francis G. Newlands Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1
11/08/44 William Mulholland Liberty Fire Damaged Unknown None
11/17/44 LT-371 (USAT) Harborcraft Stranded Unknown Unknown Crew 2
11/20/44 Prickaree Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/01/44 Elinor Wylie Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
12/16/44 Timothy Bloodworth Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 2
12/16/44 Shoemaker Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 3
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]
12/19/44 Y-75 (USAT) Harborcraft Unknown Unknown Unknown Crew 1
12/20/44 Samuel H. Cobb Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/_/45 Samuel Lancaster Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/05/45 William D. Byron Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/05/45 J. L. Luckenbach Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/09/45 Thorstein Veblen Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
01/16/45 ST-10 (USAT) Harborcraft Foundered Sunk Unknown Crew 5
01/26/45 Cape Victory Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/01/45 Nishmaha Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
02/25/45 Bjarne A. Lia Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown AG 1
03/01/45 Shooting Star Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
03/08/45 Francisco Morazan Liberty Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
03/22/45 Eleftheria Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
06/16/45 Cape John Freighter Unknown Unknown Unknown None [AG wounded]
_/_/45 W. P. Few Liberty Grounded Total loss Unknown Unknown
Unknown Kewanee Tanker Fire Unknown Unknown Unknown
Unknown Panuco Unknown Fire Unknown Unknown Unknown
Unknown Paul M. Gregg Tanker Fire Damaged Unknown Unknown

 

Chronological list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged:
1939-1941 1942 Jan-June
1942 July-Dec		 1943 1944 1945 1946-1950

Geographical list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged

Alaska

Westcoast

Pacific

Philippines

Okinawa

Eastcoast

Gulf Mexico

Caribbean

Region unknown

Approach Med

Med-Black Sea

South Atlantic

Murmansk Run

Normandy

NorthEast Atlantic

North Atlantic

Indian Ocean - Red Sea

Alphabetical list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged

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