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Casualty Info
Home Town Honolulu
Last Address 2044 First St San Diego, CA (wife's address)
Casualty Date Sep 21, 1918
Cause Non Hostile- Died of Illness, Other Injury
Reason Illness, Disease
Location Canada
Conflict World War I
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
Mississippi Class Battleship: Displacement 13,000 Tons, Dimensions, 382' 4" (oa) x 77' x 27' (Max). Armament 4 x 12"/45 8 x 8"/45, 8 x 7"/45 12 x 3"/50, 2 21" tt. Armor, 9" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 9" Conning Tower. Machinery, 10,000 HP; 2 vertical, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 17 Knots, Crew 744.
Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Cramp, Shipbuilding, Philadelphia, PA., May 12, 1904. Launched December 9, 1905. Commissioned April 1, 1908. Decommissioned July 30, 1914. Stricken July 30, 1914.
Fate: Sold to Greece, July 30, 1914 & renamed Lemmos. Sunk by German bombers while moored in Salamis near Athens on April 10, 1941.
