Minesweepers
Name | Location | Date | Cause |
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Bittern | Cavite, Philippines | 01941-12-1010 December 1941 | Scuttled after being damaged in Japanese air raid |
Bunting | San Francisco Bay | 01942-06-033 June 1942 | Sunk after collision with patrol craft PC-569 |
Crow | Puget Sound | 01943-08-2323 August 1943 | Sunk accidentally by torpedo |
Finch | Corregidor, Philippines | 01942-04-1010 April 1942 | Sunk due to damage sustained in near-miss of a Japanese bomb |
Hornbill | San Francisco Bay | 01942-06-3030 June 1942 | Sunk after collision with a lumber schooner in San Francisco Bay |
Osprey | 50°12′N 1°20′W / 50.2°N 1.333°W / 50.2; -1.333 | 01944-06-055 June 1944 | Sunk by mine |
Palmer | Lingayen Gulf, Philippines | 01945-01-077 January 1945 | Sunk by Japanese bombs |
Penguin | At Guam | 01941-12-088 December 1941 | Scuttled after damaged by near-miss of Japanese bombs |
Perry | Off Palau Island | 01944-09-1313 September 1944 | Sunk by underwater explosion on starboard side |
Portent | 41°23′N 12°43′E / 41.383°N 12.717°E / 41.383; 12.717 | 01944-01-2222 January 1944 | Sunk by mine |
Quail | Corregidor, Philippines | 01942-05-055 May 1942 | Scuttled after damaged in battle |
Salute | 5°07′N 115°04′E / 5.117°N 115.067°E / 5.117; 115.067 | 01945-06-088 June 1945 | Sunk by mine |
Sentinel | Off Licata, Sicily | 01943-07-1111 July 1943 | Sunk by German bombers during the invasion of Sicily |
Skill | 40°20′N 14°35′E / 40.333°N 14.583°E / 40.333; 14.583 | 01943-09-2525 September 1943 | Sunk by German torpedo |
Skylark | 26°20′N 127°41′E / 26.333°N 127.683°E / 26.333; 127.683 | 01945-03-2828 March 1945 | Sunk by mine |
Swallow | Off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands | 01945-04-2222 April 1945 | Sunk by Japanese kamikaze |
Swerve | 41°31′N 12°28′E / 41.517°N 12.467°E / 41.517; 12.467 | 01944-07-099 July 1944 | Sunk by mine |
Tanager | At Corregidor, Philippines | 01942-05-044 May 1942 | Sunk by Japanese shore battery |
Tide | 49°37′N 1°05′W / 49.617°N 1.083°W / 49.617; -1.083 | 01944-06-077 June 1944 | Sunk by German mine off Utah Beach |
Valor | 41°28′N 70°57′W / 41.467°N 70.95°W / 41.467; -70.95 | 01944-06-2929 June 1944 | Sunk after collision with USS Richard W. Suesens in Buzzards Bay |
Wasmuth | Aleutian Islands | 01942-12-2929 December 1942 | Sunk accidentally by her own depth charges |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Navy Losses In World War II