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Scamp

Ship Designation: 
SS-277
Date Lost: 
Thursday, November 16, 1944
Attack south of Tokyo Bay
Scamp departed Midway October 20%252c 1944 to begin her eighth patrol in the vicinity of the Bonin Islands. On November 14 she was ordered to take up a life guard station off Tokyo Bay%252c but did not acknowledge the message%252c %2528nor was she required to do so%2529. She was not heard from again. ... Japanese records indicate a combined ASW aircraft and surface ship attack on 11 November along her projected track to her new station. The attack resulted in a large pool of oil on the surface. Two further attacks on 16 November%252c along a possible track if Scamp had been damaged earlier and was leaving her station%252c resulted in heavy underwater explosions. Since no other submarines reported ASW attacks on those dates and in those areas%252c it is probable that they accounted for Scamp%2527s loss.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 82

Name Service Branchsort descending
MOMM 1c Ramon Cary USN
SM 1c William Mclaughlin USN
Lt(jg) George Eckardt USN
LCdr Walter Shaffer USN
EM 1c Edward Waytaszik USN
RM 2c Basil Abad USN
TM 2c Victor Cerveny USN
CEM John Mcneill USN
SC 1c Adam Dziamba USN
TM 2c Joseph Simpson USN
Lt Thomas Wilkinson USN
Sea 1c James Adams USN
GM 1c William Chapman USN
EM 3c Charles Landes USN
Sea 2c Orlando Dinicola USN
MOMM 3c Earl Smith USN
CMOMM Maynard Wickham USN
TM 2c Harry Anderson USN
MOMM 2c Gordon Clague USN
TM 1c Charles Langdon USN

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Prepared by: J.P.O’Hara, CDR, USN (Ret.)