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Mount Hood

Ship Designation: 
AE-11
Date Lost: 
Friday, November 10, 1944
Ammunition Explosion
Mount Hood, at an anchorage in Seadler Harbor along with other COMSOWESPAC ships carried 3800 tons of ordnance material in her holds. Shore party of 17 members of ship's crew from Mount Hood departed ship at 0830. At 0855, a flash was seen coming from Mount Hood quickly followed by 2 explosions. ... There were no survivors other than the shore party of 17 who had departed the ship prior to the explosion. ... Naval Board of Inquiry convened to examine evidence relating to the disaster was unable to ascertain the cause. Available evidence strongly points to the conclusion that explosion was caused by force or agency within the ship itself .

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 327

Name Service Branchsort descending
HA 1c Raymond Worden USN
Sea 1c Howard Yon USN
SC 2c James Barnes USN
SC 3c Franklin Call USN
F 2c David Covington USN
Sea 2c Frank Klecak USN
BM 2c Peter Marchiano USN
Sea 2c Raymond Mayo USN
Sea 2c Harry Hamel USN
Sea 2c Cleon Guthrie USN
Sea 1c Louis Ferrigno USN
MOMM 3c John Faulk USN
Sea 2c David Divilio USN
Sea 1c Clifford Stuckey USN
WT 2c Willard Taylor USN
Sea 1c James Sheern USN
WT 1c Charles Rolfe USN
MM 2c John Nauman USN
SC 2c Frank Pasternak USN
SK 1c Michael Pozolante USN

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Prepared by CAPT R. O. Strange USN (Ret.)