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Coamo

Ship Designation: 
-
Date Lost: 
Wednesday, December 9, 1942
U-Boat Attack near Bermuda

SS Coamo was topredoed by U-604 off of Bermuda while en route to New York. The ship was detached from the convoy she started in and was never heard from again. This was the greatest loss of a merchant crew of any US Flag merchant vessel during WWII

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 186

Name Service Branchsort ascending
Quartermaster Laureano Pinero USMM
Refrig. Engr. Rosario Arculeo USMM
A.B. Emilio Colon USMM
A.B. Percy Dutton USMM
Waiter Luis Herrera USMM
Watchman Antonio Kravos USMM
F/W Juan Mora USMM
Waiter Norberto Robelo USMM
A.B. Donato Thode USMM
Chief Electricia Herbert Senat USMM
PVT Thomas Robertson
SGT James Stephen
CAPT Albert Taylor
PVT Thomas Walker
LTCOL Ben Wells
LT Lawrence Billing
CSM Walter Broomfield
QMS John Evans
PVT Ernest Gore
PVT Allean Hughes

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