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Casualty Info
Home Town Montevallo, Alabama
Last Address Lost At Sea
Casualty Date Jul 12, 1919
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Antarctic Ocean
Conflict World War I/Aisne Campaign/Mining Operations, North Atlantic
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, North Atlantic Ocean
Mrs. Allene A. King, widow of Frank Ragan King and sponsor, USS King, October 14, 1920. New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
This ship was named after the commander of the minesweeper Richard Buckley, who displayed extraordinary heroism in saving the lives of the crew when his ship struck a mine in the North Sea on July 12, 1919 and sank in 7 minutes. King's last act was to put his own life preserver on a sailor and help him over the side.
