September. Warrington began to lose headway and, as a result, started to ship water through the vents to her engineering spaces. The water rushing into her vents caused a loss of electrical power which set off a chain reaction. Her main engines lost power, and her steering engine and mechanism went out. She wallowed there in the trough of the swells, continuing to ship water. She regained headway briefly and turned upwind, while her radiomen desperately, but fruitlessly, tried to raise Hyades. Finally, she resorted to a plain-language distress call to any ship or shore station. By noon on 13 September, it was apparent that Warringtons crewmen could not win the struggle to save their ship, and the order went out to prepare to abandon ship. By 12:50, her crew had left Warrington; and she went down almost immediately. A prolonged search by Hyades, , , , , , , , ATR-9, and ATR-62 rescued only 5 officers and 68 men of the destroyer's 20 officers and 301 men. Warringtons name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 23 September 1944. Awards Warrington earned two battle stars during World War II. References Dawes, CDR Robert A., Jr.,1996, The Dragon's Breath – Hurricane at Sea: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 222p. External links navsource.org: USS Warrington hazegray.org: USS Warrington Roll of Honor Warrington (DD-383) Warrington (DD-383) Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey World War II shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea 1937 ships Maritime incidents in September 1944