Damage control
Increasing speed, changing course, and antiaircraft fire did not deter the "kamikaze". He crashed the port bow on the waterline. Three compartments were flooded. Sound gear was put out of commission. Fires broke out on the forecastle. But there were no casualties. Damage control parties soon extinguished the fires and contained the flooding. "Rathburne", slowed to , made for Kerama Retto.