Damage control
was operating off Okinawa on 27 April 1945 when at 22:00 a lone kamikaze targeted the "Rathburne". Despite the ship's anti-aircraft fire and evasive maneuvering the plane hit the port side on the water line starting fires and flooding several compartments. Luckily none of "Rathburne's" crew was hurt in the attack. Damage control was able to save the ship. She would be scrapped after the war.