WSA · AK

Lewis L. Dyche

Sunk

EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship, one of 2,710, named for Lewis Lindsay Dyche, a Kansas naturalist. Not a Navy ship. The War Shipping Administration owned her and the Inter-Ocean Steamship Company operated her. Oregon Shipbuilding in Portland built her in 1943. The yard list numbers the hull 2532. On 4 January 1945, loaded with ammunition for Mindoro, a kamikaze hit her off the west coast of the island. The cargo detonated and she was gone.

Type	Cargo ship (AK)
Builder	Oregon Shipbuilding, Portland
Fate	Sunk. On 4 January 1945 a kamikaze hit her off the west coast of Mindoro, in Mindoro Strait, while she was carrying ammunition from Leyte to Mindoro. The cargo detonated. The Maritime Administration records 82 lives lost. The merchant-seamen count is 71. No survivors.
Command	Platt, John Warren In command, 4 January 1945, when a kamikaze hit her. He was her master and was lost with the ship Abbott, William H. Armed Guard officer. Killed with her on 4 January 1945. The casualty list gives his home as Kansas

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

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Command

JPPlatt, John WarrenIn command, 4 January 1945, when a kamikaze hit her. He was her master and was lost with the ship WAAbbott, William H.Armed Guard officer. Killed with her on 4 January 1945. The casualty list gives his home as Kansas

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