 On 6 May, while the destroyer was engaged in a mission to destroy enemy supply traffic, a shore battery opened up on her and scored two hits before she could silence it with counter battery fire.One shell penetrated her hull, caused extensive damage in the crew's shower aft, and wounded one man (took his arm off).The other hit bounced off the skin just outside the forward fire room between the forward electric generators and the electrical panel ("luckily" bouncing off where the two thin hull plates overlapped, resulting in a large dent) and exploded in the water close aboard.