The following table lists the Allied naval vessels that received damage or were sunk in the Battle of Okinawa between 19 March – 30 July 1945. The table lists a total of 147 damaged ships, five of which were damaged by enemy suicide boats, and another five by mines. One source estimated that total Japanese sorties during the entire Okinawa campaign exceeded 3,700, with a large percentage kamikaze, and that the attackers damaged slightly more than 200 Allied vessels, with 4900 naval officers and seamen killed and roughly 4,824 wounded or missing.[6][7] The USS Thorton is not listed as it was damaged as the result of a collision with another US ship. Those ships in a pink background, and with an asterisk were sunk or had to be scuttled due to irreparable damage. Of those sunk, the majority were relatively smaller ships; these included destroyers of around 300–450 feet. A few small cargo ships were also sunk, several containing munitions which caught fire. Those ships whose names are preceded by a "#" pound sign were scrapped or decommissioned as a result of damage.
Allied Naval vessels damaged and sunk by Japanese forces at Okinawa, primarily kamikazes, 19 March – 30 July 1945
[8]
Day
Ship
Type
Cause
Killed
Wounded
19 Mar 45
USS Franklin
Carrier
Air Attack, two 550 lb. bombs thru to hangar deck
724
265
19 Mar 45
USS Wasp
Carrier
Air Attack, bomb thru flight & hangar decks
101
269
20 Mar 45
USS Halsey Powell
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
12
29
26 Mar 45
*
USS Halligan
Destroyer
Mine, 3 miles SE of
Maye Shima, exploded 2 forward magazines, bow blown off
[9]
153
39
26 Mar 45
USS Kimberly
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
4
57
26 Mar 45
USS Nevada
Battleship
Air Attack, kamikaze
11
49
26 Mar 45
USS Biloxi
Light Cruiser
Air Attack, kamikaze
0
0
27 Mar 45
USS Murray
Destroyer
Air Attack, bomb
1
116
27 Mar 45
USS O'Brian
Destroyer
Air Attack, Val kamikaze w/bomb
50
76
28 Mar 45
*
USS Skylark
Small Minesweeper
Mine, struck mines twice off
Hagushi beaches, 1st amidships
5
25
28 Mar 45
USS LSM(R)-188
Landing Ship
Air Attack by single kamikaze
15
32
29 Mar 45
USS Wyandot
Attack Cargo Ship
Mine, possibly bomb
0
1
31 Mar 45
USS Indianapolis
Cruiser
Air Attack, bomb thru fuel tanks
9
20
1 Apr 45
USS Adams
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bombs to fantail
0
0
1 Apr 45
USS Alpine
Attack Transport
Air Attack, bomb and kamikaze
16
27
1 Apr 45
USS Hinsdale
Attack Transport
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bombs hit waterline
16
39
1 Apr 45
#
USS LST-884
Tank Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze, scuttled May 6
24
21
2 Apr 45
*
USS Dickerson
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
Nick crashed bridge, towed, scuttled
[10]
54
23
2 Apr 45
USS Goodhue
Attack Transport
Air Attack, kamikaze aimed at bridge glanced mainmast, hit cargo boom, gun tubs, over side
[11]
24
119
2 Apr 45
USS Henrico
Attack Transport
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bombs hit bridge
49
125
2 Apr 45
USS Achernar
Attack Cargo Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bomb hit starboard
5
41
3 Apr 45
USS Wake Island
Escort Carrier
Air Attack, kamikaze blew below waterline
0
0
3 Apr 45
USS Pritchett
Destroyer
Air Attack, 500 lb bomb
0
0
3 Apr 45
USS Foreman
Destroyer
Air Attack, bomb passed thru her bottom, exploded below
0
3
3 Apr 45
USS LST-599
Tank Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze thru main deck, fires
[11]
0
21
3 Apr 45
#USS LCT-876
Landing Craft Tank
Air Attack
0
2
4 Apr 45
*USS LCI(G)-82
[12]
Landing Craft, Infantry
Suicide Boat
8
11
5 Apr 45
USS Nevada
Battleship
Coastal Battery
2
16
6 Apr 45
*
USS Bush
Destroyer
Air Attack, 3 kamikaze hits 2 between stacks, blew forward engine room, broke in half
[13]
94
32
6 Apr 45
*
USS Colhoun
Destroyer
Air Attack, 4 kamikaze hits, bombs blew forward, & aft fire rooms at waterline
[13]
35
21
6 Apr 45
USS Howorth
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze struck superstructure, fires put out
[14]
9
14
6 Apr 45
USS Hyman
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze Hampton hit torpedo tubes twixt stacks
[15]
10
40
6 Apr 45
#
USS Leutze
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze blew at fantail, bad flooding
[16]
7
34
6 Apr 45
#
USS Morris
Destroyer
Air Attack,
Kate kamikaze portside
0
5
6 Apr 45
USS Mulaney
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit depth charges
13
45
6 Apr 45
#
USS Newcomb
Destroyer
Air Attack, multiple kamikazes
40
24
6 Apr 45
USS Haynsworth
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
7
25
6 Apr 45
#
USS Witter
Destroyer Escort
Starboard waterline kamikaze
0
5
6 Apr 45
USS Fieberling
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze near miss
6
6
6 Apr 45
*
USS Emmons
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, 5 kamikaze hits, scuttled 7 April
64
71
6 Apr 45
USS Rodman
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, 4 kamikaze hits
16
20
6 Apr 45
USS Defense
Small Minesweeper
Air Attack, two kamikaze strikes
0
9
6 Apr 45
*
USS LST-447
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze hit close above waterline, bomb blew
5
17
6 Apr 45
*
SS Hobbs Victory
Small Cargo
Air Attack, kamikaze struck port, flames ignited ammunition
15
3
6 Apr 45
*
SS Logan Victory
Small Cargo
Air Attack, kamikaze struck superstructure, flames ignited ammunition
16
11
7 Apr 45
USS Hancock
Carrier
Air Attack, cartwheeling kamikaze
72
82
7 Apr 45
USS Maryland
Battleship
Air Attack, kamikaze hit starboard
16
37
7 Apr 45
USS Bennett
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit engine room
3
18
7 Apr 45
USS Wesson
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze starboard
8
23
7 Apr 45
*
USS PGM-18
Small Gunboat
Mine, powerful explosion
14
14
7 Apr 45
*YMS-103
Small Minesweeper
Mine, struck two mines, blowing off her bow and
stem rescuing PGM-18
[17][18]
5
0
8 Apr 1945
USS Gregory
Destroyer
Air Attack, port kamikaze amidships near waterline
0
2
8 Apr 45
USS YMS-92
Small Sweeper
Air Attack
0
0
9 Apr 45
USS Charles J. Badger
Destroyer
Suicide Boat threw depth charge or mine
[19]
0
0
9 Apr 45
USS Sterett
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit starboard at waterline
0
9
9 Apr 45
USS Hopping
Destroyer Transport
Coastal Battery, damaging hits off
Buckner Bay
2
18
11 Apr 45
USS Kidd
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
38
55
12 Apr 45
USS Tennessee
Battleship
Air Attack, kamikaze hit signal bridge
25
104
12 Apr 45
*
USS Mannert L. Abele
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
79
35
12 Apr 45
USS Purdy
Destroyer
Air Attack, splashed kamikaze bomb skidded in
13
27
12 Apr 45
USS Cassin Young
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit foremast
1
59
12 Apr 45
USS Zellars
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze crashed port, bomb blew
29
37
12 Apr 45
USS Rall
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze starboard aft, bomb blew
21
38
12 Apr 45
USS Whitehurst
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bomb crashed pilot house
37
37
12 Apr 45
USS Lindsey
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack, 2 kamikaze
Val strikes
56
51
12 Apr 45
USS LSM(R)-189
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze
0
4
12 Apr 45
*USS LCS(L)-33
Landing Craft
Air Attack, kamikaze Val amidships
4
29
12 Apr 45
USS LCS(L)-57
Landing Craft
Air Attack, 3 kamikaze strikes
2
6
14 Apr 45
USS Sigsbee
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze damaged port engine
4
74
16 Apr 45
USS Intrepid
Carrier
Air Attack, kamikaze crashed deck, fires put out
10
87
16 Apr 45
USS Bryant
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze to bridge, w/explosion
34
33
16 Apr 45
USS Laffey
Destroyer
Air Attack, multiple kamikaze hits
31
72
16 Apr 45
*
USS Pringle
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze Val hit abaft stack No. 1, explosion, broke in half
65
110
16 Apr 45
USS Bowers
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze to bridge, bomb hit pilot house
48
56
16 Apr 45
#
USS Harding
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, kamikaze struck side near bridge
22
10
16 Apr 45
USS Hobson
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, near miss kamikaze's bomb veered in
4
8
16 Apr 45
USS LCS(L)-116
Landing Craft
Air Attack, kamikaze hit aft gun mount
12
12
18 Apr 45
USS LSM-28
Landing Ship
Air Attack
0
0
22 Apr 45
USS Isherwood
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze w/bomb crashed gun mount
42
41
22 Apr 45
*
USS Swallow
Small Sweeper
Air attack, bad kamikaze hit flooded her, 3 mins sunk
2
9
22 Apr 45
USS LCS(L)-15
Landing Craft
Air Attack
15
11
27 Apr 45
#
USS Hutchins
Destroyer
Suicide Boat explosive blew close
0
0
27 Apr 45
#
USS Rathburne
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit port bow waterline
0
0
27 Apr 45
*
SS Canada Victory
Small Cargo
Air Attack, kamikaze hit stern, lit ammo, sunk 10 mins
12
27
28 Apr 45
USS Pinkney
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit aft of superstructure, lit ammo
35
12
28 Apr 45
USS Comfort
Hospital Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze thru 3 decks to surgery
30
48
29 Apr 45
#
USS Haggard
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze went thru hull, blew engine room
11
40
29 Apr 45
USS Hazelwood
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
Zero hit port bridge
46
26
29 Apr 45
#USS LCS(L)-37
Landing Craft
Suicide Boat
0
4
30 Apr 45
USS Terror
Minelayer
Air Attack, kamikaze blew thru main deck
48
123
3 May 45
*
USS Little
Destroyer
Air attack, 5 kamikaze strikes
30
79
3 May 45
#
USS Aaron Ward
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack; 3 kamikaze hits and bomb frags
45
49
3 May 45
USS Macomb
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack, kamikaze
7
14
3 May 45
*
USS LSM(R)-195
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze hit rockets, sunk
8
16
4 May 45
USS Hopkins
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, glancing blow by burning kamikaze
0
1
4 May 45
#
USS Sangamon
Escort Carrier
Air Attack, kamikaze & bomb blew thru flight deck
46
116
4 May 45
USS Birmingham
Light Cruiser
Air Attack, kamikaze hit forward
51
81
4 May 45
USS Ingraham
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze above port waterline, bomb blew
14
37
4 May 45
*
USS Luce
Destroyer
Air Attack, 1st kamikaze bomb hit, 2nd kamikaze struck aft
149
94
4 May 45
*
USS Morrison
Destroyer
Air Attack, 1st kamikaze hit bridge, then 3 more hit
159
102
4 May 45
USS Shea
Destroyer
Air Attack
Ohka kamikaze thru starboard bridge
27
91
4 May 45
USS Carina
Cargo Ship
Suicide Boat ramming caused explosion
0
6
4 May 45
*
USS LSM(R)-190
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze set off her rockets
13
18
4 May 45
*
USS LSM(R)-194
Landing Ship
Air Attack
13
23
9 May 45
#
USS England
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze dive bomber
35
27
9 May 45
#
USS Oberrender
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze hit starboard gun mount, bomb thru main deck
8
53
11 May 45
USS Bunker Hill
Carrier
Air Attack, 3 kamikaze hits with bombs thru flight deck
396
264
11 May 45
#
USS Hugh W. Hadley
Destroyer
Air Attack, Aft bomb, an
Ohka, and 2 more kamikazes struck
28
67
11 May 45
#
USS Evans
Destroyer
Air Attack, Struck by 4 kamikazes, fires put out
30
29
11 May 45
USS LCS(L)-88
Landing Craft
Air Attack
7
9
13 May 45
USS Enterprise
Fast Carrier
Air Attack, 2 kamikazes, struck port, & under starboard bow
13
68
13 May 45
USS Bache
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit, bomb exploded amidships just above main deck
41
32
13 May 45
USS Bright
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze Zero hit fantail, bomb exploded
0
2
17 May 45
USS Douglas H. Fox
Destroyer
2 kamikaze strikes, one to forward gun mounts, one to fantail
9
35
18 May 45
*
USS Longshaw
Destroyer
Coastal Battery, 4 hits, one ignited magazine, blew off bow back to bridge
[20]
86
97
18 May 45
*USS LST-808
Landing Ship Tank
Air Attack
11
11
20 May 45
#
USS Chase
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, Splashed kamikaze skidded in, bombs opened hull, w/flooding
0
35
20 May 45
#
USS Thatcher
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze
Oscar struck aft of bridge, large hole
14
53
20 May 45
#
USS John C. Butler
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze hit to mast and antennas
0
0
25 May 45
USS Stormes
Destroyer
Air Attack, crashed aft torpedo mount, bomb blew large hole, flooded aft
21
6
25 May 45
USS O'Neill
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze
0
16
25 May 45
USS Butler
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, kamikaze bombs exploded under keel
0
15
25 May 45
#
USS Spectacle
Small Minesweeper
Air Attack, kamikaze crashed port gun tub causing fires
29
6
25 May 45
*
USS Barry
Destroyer Transport
Air Attack, kamikaze badly crashed starboard side, fires, abandoned
0
30
25 May 45
*
USS Bates
Destroyer
Air Attack, 2 kamikaze hits, fires, abandoned, towed, later sank
21
35
25 May 45
USS Roper
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit off Hanagushi, Okinawa
1
10
25 May 45
*LSM-135
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze caused fires, beached, abandoned
11
10
25 May 45
SS William B. Allison, aka USS Inca
[21]
Cargo Ship, Liberty Ship
Air Attack, Aerial Torpedo off
Nakagusuku Wan
8
2
27 May 45
USS Braine
Destroyer
Air Attack, 2 kamikazes, 1st hit bridge, and 2nd hit amidships
66
78
27 May 45
#
USS Forrest
Destroyer Minesweeper
Air Attack, kamikaze crashed starboard side waterline
5
13
27 May 45
USS Rednour
Transport
Air Attack, 2 kamikaze hits, one made 10-foot hole in main deck
3
13
27 May 45
USS Loy
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, kamikaze near miss sprayed fragments
3
15
27 May 45
LCS(L)-119
Landing Craft
Air Attack
12
6
28 May 45
*
USS Drexler
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, 1st kamikaze
Frances hit topside, 2nd Frances w/bombs crashed superstructure
158
51
28 May 45
USS Sandoval
Attack Transport
Air Attack, kamikaze hit portside of wheelhouse
8
26
29 May 45
USS Shubrick
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze bomb hit starboard causing hole, exploding depth charge
32
28
3 June 45
#
USS LCI(L)-90
Landing Craft Infantry
Air Attack, kamikaze
1
7
6 June 45
#
USS J. William Ditter
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack, 1st kamikaze glanced, 2nd hit port near main deck
10
27
6 Jun 45
USS Harry F. Bauer
Destroyer Minelayer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit
superstructure
0
0
10 Jun 45
*
USS William D. Porter
Destroyer
Air Attack, splashed kamikaze Val'sbomb exploded close underwater
0
61
11 Jun 45
USS LCS(L)-122
Landing Craft
Air Attack kamikaze hit conning tower base, bomb fragments caused fires
[22]
11
29
16 Jun 45
*
USS Twiggs
Destroyer
Air Attack, splashed kamikaze and bomb blew in hull plating, w/structural damage
126
34
21 Jun 45
USS Halloran
Destroyer Escort
Air Attack, splashed kamikaze's bomb struck
3
24
21 Jun 45
USS Curtiss
Seaplane Tender
Air Attack, kamikaze and bomb ripped 2 holes in hull and blew
41
28
21 Jun 45
*USS LSM-59
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze strike while towing USS Barry, sank in 4 minutes
2
8
22 Jun 45
USS LSM-213
Landing Ship
Air Attack, kamikaze strike at Kimmu Wan, hull damage
[23]
3
10
22 Jun 45
USS LST-534
Landing Ship Tank
Air Attack, While offloading on Nagagusuku Wan, kamikaze hit bow doors, tank deck
[23]
3
35
29 Jul 45
*
USS Callaghan
Destroyer
Air Attack, bi-plane kamikaze hit,its bomb blew aft engine room, sunk
47
73
30 Jul 45
USS Cassin Young
Destroyer
Air Attack, kamikaze hit forward, earlier hit April 12
22
45