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Hull-Spence-Monaghan

Ship Designation: 
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Date Lost: 
Monday, December 18, 1944
Lost in Typhoon
At 1149 December 18 Admiral Halsey directed Commander Task Force 38 to take most comfortable courses with wind on port quarter. Seven minutes later Admiral McCain directed TF 38 to steer course 120. ... Both were sound decisions; the storm center was then about 37 miles due north, and this southeasterly course took the Fleet away from it. But by that time the ships were strung out over some 2500 square miles of ocean and it was too late for some to escape. ... The typhoon reached its greatest violence between 1100 and 1400 December 18, depending on the position of the vessel concerned. At 1345 Admiral Halsey issued a typhoon warning, to alert Fleet Weather Central to what was going on. This was the first reference to the storm as a typhoon in any official message. ...Unknown to Commander Third Fleet, three of his destroyers, USS Hull (DD-350), USS Spence (DD-512) and USS Monaghan (DD-354) had already gone down.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 718

Namesort descending Service Branch
Sea 1c Lowell Ellison USN
F 1c Fred Ellwanger USN
Sea 2c Roland Elwell USN
Sea 2c Herman Englehart USN
EM 1c Carroll Entrican USN
CBM Gilbert Esler USN
Sea 1c Lindsey Etheridge USN
MM 2c Paul Evans USN
F 1c Frederick Fantozzi USN
SM 3c Edward Farrell USN
Sea 1c Laurence Faught USN
CMM Kyle Faust USN
QM 3c Angel Fernandez USN
MM 2c Robert Ferrero USN
Sea 2c James Ferrier USN
MM 1c Lester Finch USN
Sea 1c Hugh Finch USN
SM 3c David Finch USN
MM 2c Martin Finn USN
WT 2c Roland Fisher USN

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