Damage control
The German submarine "U-483" torpedoed "Whitaker" at 0210 hours on 1 November 1944, off Malin Head on the north coast of Ireland at position . Damage control measures brought the resultant fires under control by 0320 hours but not before the ship had lost much of her bow and suffered 79 dead. Towed first to Londonderry Port, Northern Ireland, and then to Belfast, Northern Ireland, "Whitaker" was declared a constructive total loss, remained inactive for the rest of World War II, and was decommissioned in March 1945. The U.S. Navy struck her from its Naval Vessel Register on 19 May 1945.