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Casualty Info
Home Town Mobile County
Last Address USS Jacob Jones in the Atlantic.
Remembered at the Brookwood American Military Cemetery in England on the Tablets of the Missing, & with a cenotaph at Arlington National Cemetery (section 15A, site 25 SS).
Casualty Date Dec 06, 1917
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Location North Atlantic Ocean
Conflict World War I
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, North Atlantic Ocean
Wall/Plot Coordinates Lost at Sea with the USS Jacob Jones.
Florida Class Battleship: Displacement 21,825 Tons, Dimensions, 521' 6" (oa) x 88' 3" x 30' 1" (Max)Armament 10 x 12"/45 16 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 11 1/2" Conning Tower. Machinery, 28,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 4 screws. Speed, 20.75 Knots, Crew 1001.
Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York Naval Ship Yard, March 9, 1909. Launched May 12, 1910. Commissioned September 15, 1911. Decommissioned February 16, 1931. Stricken April 6, 1931.
Fate:Sold 16 February 1931 and broken up for scrap.