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Albert W.Grant

Ship Designation: 
DD-649
Date Lost: 
Wednesday, October 25, 1944
Shellfire in Surigao Strait
On 24 October, Albert W. Grant joined TG 77.2 and sailed to engage a Japanese task force reported steaming northward from the Sulu Sea toward Surigao Strait. That American battleship group met the Japanese force in the strait, and Albert W. Grant, alone with other destroyers in advance of the main battle line conducted a torpedo attack. During this attack, she was hit and severely damaged by gunfire. Albert W. Grant suffered 22 hits, many by six-inch shells. Fires broke out, and the ship lost steer- ing control and all power. Thirty-eight men were killed and 104 were wounded. Although their ship was down by the bow and listing heavily to port, the destroyer's crew got her engines working again and enabled her to retire to American-controlled waters in Leyte Gulf

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 37

Namesort descending Service Branch
Lt Charles Mathieu USN
Mach Warren Mcelroy USN
Sea 1c James Mcgee USN
Sea 2c Thomas Mcinturff USN
MOMM 1c James Messer USN
RM 3c Claudius Noel USN
F 1c Arless Pack USN
TM 3c Frederick Rathbun USN
MM 3c Earl Roberts USN
F 1c Donald Rothe USN
Sea 2c Milton Sarver USN
RM 1c William Selleck USN
WT 3c Fred Springer USN
MM 2c James Stephenson USN
CWT Donat Surpenant USN
CMM Francis Ward USN
MM 2c John Weber USN

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