LOST WITH ALL HANDS - 03 OCT 1944

Lost on 03 OCT 1944 with 83 officers and men and 17 embarked US Army troops when she was sunk just North of Morotai, Republic of the Philippines, in a 'friendly fire' incident with USS RICHARD M. ROWELL (DE 403), a Destroyer Escort.

In this tragic error, USS RICHARD M. ROWELL mistook USS SEAWOLF for a Japanese submarine that had just sunk another US destroyer.

USS SEAWOLF ranks seventh for number of enemy ships sunk.