USS Shubrick (DD-639), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the fourth ship named for Rear Admiral William B. Shubrick. She was launched at Norfolk on 18 April 1942 and commissioned on 7 February 1943. She came to the Pacific late, after a war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean: Sicily in July 1943, where a bomb hit her at Palermo on 4 August, Normandy on 6 June 1944, and southern France in August 1944.
She transited the Panama Canal on 1 February 1945 to join the Pacific Fleet and left Pearl Harbor on 21 April escorting the battleship Mississippi to Okinawa. On 12 May she and one other destroyer supported the landings at Tori Shima and shot down two attacking aircraft. She completed one radar picket patrol in mid-May.
On her way to her second picket station she was attacked at 0010 on 29 May 1945 by two kamikazes, one of which crashed into her. The bomb blew a 30-foot hole in her starboard side and one of her depth charges exploded. The destroyer Van Valkenburg came alongside at 0113 and removed classified material, the wounded and unneeded men. The crew controlled the flooding and the ATR-9 towed her to Kerama Retto. Thirty-five were killed or missing and 25 wounded.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).
