Chronological List of U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged during July to December 1942

Total ships sunk or damaged in 1942 -- 574

Ships Sunk or Damaged July 1942 (63 ships)

Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
07/01/42 Warrior Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3; AG 4
07/02/42 Edward Luckenbach Freighter Mine Sunk GulfMexico Crew 1
07/02/42 San Pablo Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Total loss Caribbean Crew 1; Stevedores 23
07/03/42 Alexander Macomb Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 4; AG 6
07/03/42 Gulfbelle Tanker Torpedo Damaged Caribbean Crew 3
07/03/42 Norlandia Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 9
07/04/42 Christopher Newport Liberty Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
07/04/42 Washington Freighter Bombed Damaged Murmansk None
07/04/42 William Hooper Liberty Aerial & submarine Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 3
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 Pan Atlantic Freighter Bombed Sunk Murmansk Crew 18; AG 7; Survivors torpedoed on Bellingham all survived
07/06/42 Bellingham Freighter Shelled Damaged Murmansk None [AG wounded]
07/06/42 William H. Machen Freighter Collision Sunk Eastcoast Unknown
07/06/42

Montrose [former Danish Herta Maersk]

Freighter (Panama) Grounded Total loss North Atlantic Unknown
07/07/42 Alcoa Ranger Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Murmansk None
07/07/42 Oklahoman Freighter Grounded Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
07/07/42 Olopana Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Murmansk Crew 5; AG 1
07/07/42 Paul H. Harwood Tanker Torpedo Damaged GulfMexico None
07/07/42 Rufus King Liberty Split Total loss Pacific None
07/08/42 J. A. Moffett, Jr. Tanker Torpedo & Shelled Total loss GulfMexico Crew 1
07/09/42 Benjamin Brewster Tanker Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico Crew 24; AG 1
07/09/42 Santa Rita Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk NAtlantic Crew 3; German POW: 1 (Master)
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
07/11/42 Stanvac Palembang Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 2 AG 3; lost on Robert E. Lee: Crew 1
07/12/42 Andrew Jackson Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3
07/12/42 Tachira Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 4; AG 1
07/13/42 Oneida (Ford Motor Co.) Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 6
07/13/42 R. W. Gallagher Tanker Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico Crew 9; AG 2
07/14/42 Arcata (USAT) Freighter Torpedo Sunk Alaska Crew 8
07/15/42 Bluefields Freighter (Honduras) Torpedo Sunk Eastcoast None
07/15/42 Chilore Bulk Carrier Torpedo & Mine Beached Eastcoast Crew 2
07/15/42 J. A. Mowinckel Tanker (Panama) Torpedo & Mine Damaged Eastcoast Crew 1 AG 1
07/15/42 Pennsylvania Sun Tanker Torpedo Damaged GulfMexico Crew 2
07/16/42 Beaconlight Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
07/16/42 Fairport Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
07/16/42 Gertrude Fishing Vessel Time-bombed Sunk GulfMexico None
07/16/42 William F. Humphrey Tanker Shelled & Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 4; AG 3; German & Japanese POW: Crew 26; AG 2; Died Japanese POW: Crew 3; Crew 1 on Junyo Maru; Died German POW: AG 1
07/18/42 Baja California Freighter (Honduras) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3
07/18/42 Carmona Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 4
07/19/42 Keshena Tug Mine Sunk Eastcoast Crew 2
07/20/42 Coast Farmer Freighter Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 1
07/21/42 William Cullen Bryant Liberty Torpedo Damaged GulfMexico None
07/22/42 Honolulan Freighter Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed None
07/22/42 William Dawes Liberty Torpedo Sunk Pacific Army 1; AG 4
07/23/42 Onondaga Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 18; Passenger 1
07/27/42 Stella Lykes Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk NAtlantic Crew 1; German POW: 2 (Master & Chief Engineer)
07/28/42 Ebb Fishing Trawler Shelled Sunk NAtlantic Crew 5
07/30/42 Cranford Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 9; AG 2
07/30/42 Robert E. Lee Passenger Ship Torpedo Sunk GulfMexico Crew 10; survivors of Stanvac Palembang & other ships: 15

Ships Sunk or Damaged August 1942 (24 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
08/05/42 Alice T. Oil screw Grounded Unknown Alaska Unknown
08/06/42 Wawaloam Three Masted Schooner Shelled Sunk NAtlantic None
08/08/42 Kaimoku Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 2
08/13/42 Everelza Freighter (Latvia) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 22 [Received Mariner Medal]; AG 1
08/13/42 Almeria Lykes Freighter Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea None
08/13/42 California Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
08/13/42 Cripple Creek Freighter Torpedo Sunk ApproachMed Crew 1
08/13/42 Delmundo Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 5; Passengers 2
08/13/42 R. M. Parker, Jr. Tanker Torpedo & Shelled Sunk GulfMexico None
08/13/42 Santa Elisa Freighter Torpedo Sunk Med-BlackSea None
08/15/42 Balladier Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 12; AG 2
08/17/42 Louisiana Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 42; AG 8
08/18/42 John Hancock Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
08/19/42 West Celina Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Convoy Commodore killed
08/27/42 Arlyn Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 12
08/27/42 Chatham Passenger Ship Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 7; Passengers 7 (USAT Charter)
08/28/42 Esso Aruba Tanker Torpedo Damaged Caribbean None
08/29/42 Topa Topa Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 18; AG 7
08/30/42 Jack Carnes Tanker Torpedo (U-705) Damaged NAtlantic None
08/31/42 Jack Carnes Tanker Shelled & Torpedo (U-516) Sunk NAtlantic Crew 17; AG 8
08/30/42 Sir Huon [former Danish Columbia] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
08/30/42 Star of Oregon Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Caribbean Repatriated Seaman 1
08/30/42 West Lashaway Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 25; AG 9; Passengers 4 [Book: In Peril on the Sea: A Personal Remembrance by Bell & Lockerbie]
08/31/42 Capira Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 4; AG 1

Ships Sunk or Damaged September 1942 (38 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
09/01/42 P. S. B. & D. Co. No. 6 Scow Grounded Unknown Alaska Unknown
09/01/42 Seminole Unknown Seized in France Taken over by Germans in France NEAtlantic Unknown
09/01/42 Crown City (USDAT) Freighter Grounded Total loss Alaska None
09/07/42 Puchero [former finnish Delaware] Freighter (Panama) Grounded Total loss Caribbean None
09/10/42 American Leader Freighter Shelled & Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 10; AG 1; German and Japanese POW: Crew 39 AG 8; lost on Tomahaku Maru Crew 9 AG 4; lost on Junyo Maru Crew 3 AG 1; died on Sumatra Crew 2
09/12/42 Patrick J. Hurley Tanker Shelled Sunk Caribbean Crew 13; AG 4
09/12/42 Stanvac Melbourne Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
09/12/42 Philip Schuyler Liberty Collision Unknown NAtlantic? Unknown
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 Nimba Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 19
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]
09/13/42 Stone Street [former Italian Clara] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 11 AG 2; German POW: 1(Master)
09/14/42 Mary Luckenbach Hog Islander Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 41; AG 25; debris from explosion injured crew of SS Nathanael 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
09/15/42 Pan York Freighter Torpedo attack No damage NAtlantic None
09/16/42 Commercial Trader Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 7; AG 3
09/17/42 Mae Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
09/18/42 Kentucky Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/19/42 Wichita Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 40; AG 10
09/20/42 Petrofuel Tanker Mine Damaged Eastcoast Unknown
09/20/42 Silver Sword Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk Crew 1
09/22/42 Bellingham Freighter Torpedo Sunk Murmansk None
09/22/42 Esso Williamsburg Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 42; AG 18
09/22/42 Paul Luckenbach Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
09/23/42 Antinous Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None
09/23/42 Pennmar Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 2
09/24/42 John Winthrop Liberty Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 39; AG 13
09/24/42 Losmar Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 24; AG 2
09/24/42 West Chetac Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 22; AG 9
09/26/42 Tambour [former Finnish Fidra] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 8
09/27/42 Stephen Hopkins (GSA) Liberty Shelled Sunk SAtlantic Crew 32; AG 9
09/28/42 Alcoa Mariner Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean None

Ships Sunk or Damaged October 1942 (32 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
10/02/42 Alcoa Transport Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 7
10/02/42 Aneroid [former Italian San Guiseppe] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 5; AG 1
10/04/42 Camden Tanker Torpedo Sunk Pacific Crew 1
10/04/42 Caribstar Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 6
10/04/42 Robert H. Colley Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 20; AG 8
10/05/42 Larry Doheny Tanker Torpedo Sunk Westcoast Crew 2; AG 4
10/05/42 William A. McKenney Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
10/07/42 Chickasaw City Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 8; Passenger 1; AG 1; Lost on Zaandam: Crew 9; AG 5
10/07/42 Firethorn [former Danish Norden] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 10; AG 2; lost on Zaandam: 8
10/08/42 John Carter Rose Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 5; AG 3
10/08/42 Swiftsure Tanker Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None; lost on Zaandam: Crew 17
10/09/42 Coloradan Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 6; lost on Zaandam: 6
10/09/42 Examelia Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 8; AG 3; Lost on Zaandam: Crew 14; AG 5
10/11/42 El Lago Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 37; AG 14; Passengers 6; German POW 2
10/11/42 Steel Scientist Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
10/12/42 Susana Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 27; AG 10
10/13/42 Pan Gulf Freighter Mine Damaged Caribbean Unknown
10/14/42 Edward Schenk Tug Foundered Sunk Alaska Crew all
10/16/42 Winona Freighter Torpedo Damaged Caribbean None
10/17/42 Angelina Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 34; AG 13
10/19/42 Steel Navigator Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 26; AG 10
10/23/42 Reuben Tipton Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3
10/25/42 Daniel Boone Liberty Mine Damaged Caribbean None
10/25/42 Norluna Freighter Grounded Total loss NAtlantic None
10/26/42 Anne Hutchinson Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk SAtlantic Crew 3
10/26/42 President Coolidge Troopship Mine Sunk Pacific Crew 1; Army 4
10/27/42 Gurney E. Newlin Tanker Torpedo (U-436) Damaged NAtlantic None
10/28/42 Gurney E. Newlin Tanker Torpedo (U-606) Sunk NAtlantic Crew 3; lost on British SS Bic Island 10/28/42: Crew 31; AG 14
10/28/42 Lt. Col. Lawrence O. Matthews (USAT) Tug Marine casualty Sunk Eastcoast Crew 15; Army 1
10/29/42 Macabi Freighter (Panama) Mine Sunk Caribbean None
10/29/42 Pan New York Tanker Torpedo Sunk NEAtlantic Crew 26; AG 17
10/29/42 West Kebar Freighter Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 3

Ships Sunk or Damaged November 1942 (37 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
11/01/42 George Thacher Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 5; AG 5; Army 8
11/02/42 Zaandam Freighter (Netherlands) Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Total lost 134 [AG 15]; including survivors from: Coloradan 6; Chickasaw City 12; Examelia 14; Swiftsure 18; Firethorn Crew 2; AG 6
11/03/42 East Indian Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 33; AG 14; Passengers 10
11/03/42 Hahira Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 2; AG 1; lost on SS Parismina: Crew 3
11/03/42 Leda Tanker (Panama) Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
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
11/05/42 Meton Tanker Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 1
11/07/42 La Salle Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 39; AG 17
11/07/42 Nathaniel Hawthorne Liberty Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 30; AG 7; Passenger 1
11/08/42 Edgar Allen Poe Liberty Torpedo Total loss Pacific Crew 2
11/08/42 Matthew P. Deady Liberty Unknown Unknown ApproachMed None [AG wounded]
11/08/42 Contessa (USAT) Freighter Grounded Damaged ApproachMed None
11/08/42 Exceller Freighter Bombed Damaged Med-BlackSea None
11/08/42 Marcus Whitman Liberty Torpedo & Shelled Sunk SAtlantic None
11/08/42 Plaudit [former Italian Guidonia] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo & Shelled Sunk SAtlantic Crew 2; AG 1
11/08/42 West Humhaw Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk SAtlantic None
11/11/42 Thomas T. Tucker Liberty Grounded Total loss SAtlantic None
11/12/42 Buchanan [former Danish Lexa Maersk] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
11/13/42 Excello Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 1; AG 1
11/13/42 Star of Scotland Six Masted Schooner Shelled Sunk SAtlantic Crew 1
11/13/42 Alcoa Pilot Freighter Collision Unknown Eastcoast Unknown
11/14/42 Scapa Flow [former Finnnish Anja] Freighter (Panama) Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 26 AG 7
11/15/42 Azra [former Danish Marna] Freighter (Panama) Collision and depth charge Sunk Eastcoast Crew 1
11/15/42 Lucy Evelyn Schooner Shelled Unknown Caribbean None
11/17/42 Ironclad Freighter Grounded Total loss Murmansk None; Lost on SS Puerto Rican: Crew 1
11/18/42 Brilliant Tanker Torpedo Damaged NAtlantic None
11/18/42 Parismina Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 15 AG 2; plus survivors of Hahira: 3
11/18/42 Yaka Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic None
11/21/42 Alcoa Pathfinder Freighter Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 5
11/21/42 Pierce Butler Liberty Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea None
11/23/42 Caddo Tanker Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 37; AG 13; German POW 2 - 1 died POW
11/26/42 Deep Sea Oil screw Grounded Sunk Alaska Unknown
11/27/42 Jeremiah Wadsworth Liberty Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic None
11/28/42 Alaskan Freighter Torpedo & Shelled Sunk Caribbean 6 Crew; AG 1
11/28/42 Teapa Freighter Fire Damaged Alaska Unknown
11/29/42 Sawokla Freighter Shelled & Torpedo Sunk Indian-Red Sea Crew 16; AG 4; German & Japanese POW: Crew 30; AG 9; POW on the River Kwai Railroad

Ships Sunk or Damaged December 1942 (14 ships)
Date Ship Type Cause Result Location Deaths
12/08/42 James McKay Freighter Torpedo Sunk NAtlantic Crew 47; AG 15
12/09/42 Coamo (USAT) Troopship Torpedo Sunk Caribbean Crew 133; AG 37; Army 16
12/10/42 President Fillmore (USAT) Troopship Fire Damaged Alaska? Killed 5
12/13/42 Mount Evans Freighter Collision Damaged Eastcoast None
12/14/42 Alcoa Rambler Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 1
12/14/42 Thomas B. Schall Schooner Unknown Possibly Mine Sunk Caribbean Unknown number all lost
12/25/42 Ballot Freighter (Panama) Shelled Sunk Murmansk Unknown
12/25/42 Dona Aurora Freighter Torpedo Sunk SAtlantic Crew 2; AG 1 [total 7 killed] POW 2
12/26/42 Port Orford Freighter Grounded Sunk Alaska None
12/26/42 John Walker Liberty Bombed Damaged Murmansk Crew 1
12/29/42 E. H. Blum Tanker Grounded Split & repaired Eastcoast Unknown
12/31/42 Lancaster Freighter Grounded Total loss ApproachMed Crew 1; AG 12
12/31/42 Calobre [Panama] Freighter Shelled Damaged Murmansk None [AG wounded]
12/31/42 Maiden Creek HogIslander Foundered Sunk Eastcoast Crew 20
 
00/00/42 Juaniata Freighter (Honduras) Grounded Damaged Caribbean None

 

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