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Muskeget

Ship Designation: 
WAG-48
Date Lost: 
Wednesday, September 9, 1942
Lost in North Atlantic
When she was overdue in reaching home port, Muskeget was presumed lost in action with no survivors. At the time of her sinking, she had 121 men on board: 9 commissioned officers, 107 enlisted men, one Public Health Service officer, and four civilian employees of the U.S. Weather Service. German naval records recovered after the war indicated that U-755, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walter Göing, reported torpedoing a U.S. auxiliary merchant cruiser in Muskeget's area of operation on 9 September 1942. It was probably this attack that caused the destruction of Muskeget and the loss of her entire crew. U-755 was herself sunk in the Mediterranean by a Royal Air Force Hudson on 28 May 1943.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 117

Name Service Branchsort descending
Ens Charles Hunter USCG
SC 2c Martin Hvizdock USCG
BM 1c Albert Kelsch USCG
WT 2c Tadeusz Kowalski USCG
RM 3c Kenneth Lien USCG
RM 3c Carlos Lopez USCG
F 1c August Maniscalco USCG
PhM 3c John Mcdonald USCG
RM 3c Leon Morgenstern USCG
CM 2c Robert Mullen USCG
Sea 1c Harold Murray USCG
Sea 1c Francis Ohlsen USCG
Cox Stanley Pawlusiak USCG
RM 3c Donald Peterson USCG
Sea 1c Max Posnansky USCG
Sea 2c Edmund Power USCG
GM 2c Walter Profit USCG
F 2c Aniello Restaino USCG
Sea 1c William Robinson USCG
F 2c Gerald Sarrasin USCG

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