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Last Address Newkirk
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Dicharged from Navy on September 1, 1919 at New York, NY.
Other Comments:
Name: Cox, Joh M.
Rank: Seaman/Gunner
Home of Record: Newkirk, OK
DOB: Aug 14, 1897
POB: Kansas City, MO
NOK: Mr. And Mrs. W. A. Nelson
DOE: Active Duty: Sep 2, 1915
POE: Active Duty: Great Lakes N.T.S., IL
DOS: Active Duty: Sep1, 1919
POS: Active Duty: New York, NY
Remarks: Was on USS Oklahoma, USS Henry R. Mallory, USS Chattanooga, and USS Arizona. Made fourteen trips across and back with soldiers. (convoy/transport duty)
(SOURCE: "Honor Roll and Service Record, p. 30" publsihed by Blackwell Job Printing Company, Blackwell, OK in 1920)
Nevada Class Battleship:
Displacement 27,500 Tons, Dimensions, 583' (oa) x 95' 3" x 29' 7" (Max) Armament 10 x 14"/45 21 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Triple Turrets, 16" Dual turrets, 3" Second (armor) Deck, 2 1/2" Third (splinter) Deck 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 24,800 IHP; 2 vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 864. Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., October 26, 1912. Launched March 23, 1914. Commissioned May 2, 1916. Decommissioned (War Loss). Stricken September 1, 1944. Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft during attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941. 20 Officers and 395 Men were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Her hulk was raised in 1943, Sold for scrap December 5 1946. Hulk sank while under tow to breakers, 540 miles NE, Pearl Harbor, May 17, 1947.