Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton, First U.S. Ship Sunk in the Atlantic After Pearl Harbor

From the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society.

The Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34) was launched in 1937 and assigned to the U.S. Navy soon after Pearl Harbor.  Serving as an escort for a convoy heading to Iceland, it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-132 on January 29, 1942.

Twenty-six servicemen died in the attack.

The next day the ship capsized the next day, it was determined to be unsalvagable and sent to the bottom of the ocean.

It was also the U.S. Coast Guard's first ship lost in the war.

--GreGen