USS Monterey: hangar deck fire killed three men and caused evacuation of boiler rooms requiring repairs at Bremerton Navy yard USS Langley: damaged USS Cabot: damaged USS San Jacinto: hangar deck planes broke loose and destroyed air intakes, vent ducts and sprinkling system causing widespread flooding. Damage repaired by USS Altamaha: hangar deck crane and aircraft broke loose and broke fire mains USS Anzio: required major repair USS Nehenta Bay: damaged USS Cape Esperance: flight deck fire required major repair USS Kwajalein: lost steering control USS Iowa: propeller shaft bent and lost a seaplane USS Baltimore: required major repair USS Miami: required major repair USS Dewey: lost steering control, RADAR, the forward stack, and all power when salt water shorted main electrical switchboard USS Aylwin: required major repair USS Buchanan: required major repair USS Dyson: required major repair USS Hickox: required major repair USS Maddox: damaged USS Benham: required major repair USS Donaldson: required major repair USS Melvin R. Nawman: required major repair USS Tabberer: lost foremast USS Waterman: damaged USS Nantahala: damaged USS Jicarilla: damaged USS Shasta: damaged—"one deck collapsed, aircraft engines damaged, depth charges broke loose, damaged" Rescue efforts The fleet was scattered by the storm. One ship, the destroyer escort , encountered and rescued a survivor from the Hull while itself desperately fighting the typhoon. This was the first survivor from any of the capsized destroyers to be picked up. Shortly thereafter, many more survivors were picked up, in groups or in isolation. Tabberers skipper – Lieutenant Commander Henry Lee Plage – directed that the ship, despite its own dire condition, begin boxed searches to look for more survivors. Tabberer eventually rescued 55 survivors in a 51-hour search, despite repeated orders from Admiral Halsey to return all ships to port in Ulithi. She picked up 41 men from Hull and 14 from Spence before finally returning to Ulithi after being directly relieved from the search by two destroyer escorts. After the fleet had regrouped (without Tabberer), ships and aircraft conducted search-and-rescue missions. The destroyer rescued the only survivors from Monaghan, six in total. She additionally rescued 13 sailors from Hull. Eighteen other survivors from Hull and Spence were rescued over the three days following Typhoon Cobra by other ships of the 3rd Fleet. The destroyer emerged from the storm undamaged and began looking for survivors before returning to Ulithi on Christmas Eve. In all, 93 men were