USS Longshaw (DD-559)
Navy | US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Fletcher |
Pennant | DD 559 |
Built by | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 16 Jun 1942 |
Launched | 4 Jun 1943 |
Commissioned | 4 Dec 1943 |
Lost | 18 May 1945 |
Loss position | 26.11N, 127.34E |
History | Grounded of the southern end of Okinawa on 14 May 1945 and sunk by Japanese shore batteries on 18 May 1945 in position 26°11'N, 127°37'E, 62 of her crew were lost with the ship. |