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Fletcher-class destroyer USS Claxton (DD-571): Kamikaze suicide attack off Leyte, 1/11.1944.
Baltimore-class cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70): Hit by an aerial torpedo off Leyte, 13/10.1944.
Fletcher-class destroyer USS Killen (DD-593): Kamikaze suicide attack off Leyte, 1/11.1944.

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In 1940, she was converted to a destroyer minesweeper and reclassified as DMS-11 on 19/11.1940, but was sunk by a torpedo attack from a Japanese aircraft in the early hours of 7/1.1945 whilst supporting the Lingayen Gulf landings.

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As a result, they learnt that naval vessels often gathered on Sundays and that an aircraft carrier had set sail that day.
The US had obtained this information through code-breaking, but it was ignored.

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Nobody realised MMS.70 had been sunk. Her survivors were left clinging to wreckage for 12 hours until a local fishing boat rescued them. All the officers involved were heavily criticised, and were informed that they had 'incurred the Commander-in-Chief's displeasure'. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1942 // Destroyer HMS Somali, torpedoed and badly damaged off Labrador on 20 September by U-boat U.703, sank in bad weather between Greenland and the Faroes while under tow. Only 35 were saved from Somali's reduced crew of 80. (Imperial War Museum FL 19179) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1940 // Former 74-gun HMS Wellesley, built 1815 and latterly (as TS Cornwall) a training ship at Wellesley Nautical School, Gravesend, was bombed and sunk at her moorings during a German air raid. She was the last RN ship of the line to be lost to enemy action. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1922 // Destroyer HMS Speedy sank in the Sea of Marmara after colliding with a Turkish steamer, the Kara Bigha. Ten of her crew lost their lives. Her Gunner, the officer of the watch, was found to have been negligent and was reprimanded and dismissed his ship. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1919 // During the British withdrawal from Murmansk, HM Hospital Ships Edinburgh Castle and Lord Morton were abandoned as unfit to make the journey back to Great Britain. They were stripped of everything removable that was worth salvaging and then sunk in deep water. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1917 // HM Drifter Hastfen, a Great Yarmouth boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, was sunk by a faulty electro-contact mine while she was recovering anti-submarine nets off Shipwash Sand in the Thames Estuary. Four of her crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1915 // HM Drifter Greatheart, an Inverness boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, exploded and sank just after leaving Dover harbour with 8 men lost. The cause was at first unknown, but later confirmed to have been a German submarine-laid mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

24 Sept 1868 // 17-gun sail/screw sloop HMS Rattler was wrecked without loss of life when she struck an uncharted reef in La Pérouse Strait north of Hokkaido, Japan. All attempts to refloat her failed and she was abandoned when her hull began to break up. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The Highflyer had no choice but to comply. Without a shot being fired, the Americans took had gained not only the Highflyer, a former American privateer captured by the British in January 1813, but also her confidential papers and private signal books. Most unfortunate. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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Subsequently, the name ‘Mikuma’ was given to the 4th ship of the Mogami-class escort vessels (FFM-4), which entered service in 2023; however, the name ‘Chikugo’ has not been passed on.
This may be because the name was adopted for a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel (PM34).

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24 Sept 1782 // 74-gun 3rd-rate HMS Centaur sank off Newfoundland in the storm known as the Central Atlantic Hurricane. Over 400 men died. Centaur's captain and 11 men survived after an epic voyage of 400 miles to the Azores in an open boat. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

The ships were from d'Estaing's fleet, which was known to be in the area. In her damaged state the Experiment was easily overtaken, and after a short exchange of fire she surrendered. The loss was very unfortunate as she was carrying money to pay the British army in Georgia. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory