K . .7 lZ5'5'J0fiNKlN6' 71706-3! The first ship to bear the name, JOHN KING, is the second of ADAMS Class Cuidedilllissile Destroyers to be constructed by the Bath 1ron Works in Bath.,MC1ifL6-JOHN KING wf1S C0ff1mrLSSl0ned on 4 February 1961, at Boston Naval Shipyard. On 6 September 1961, she arrived in N0ff0llf, Virginia, her homeport. ' 1 Since commissioning, the ship has had ten periods extended operations with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean' the first de lo r ., p yment was in November 1961. The tenth Sixth F1865 deployment was completed in April 1979. In addition, JOHN KING has operated extensively in Northern European waters, having made six cruises there in support' of NATO commitments. T126 ship was in the Cuban Blockade operations in October 1962, and was among the first unitS 60 respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis. . From December 1972 to June 1973, JOHN KING deployed to the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Lllf? Western Pacific, and conducted Naval Gunfire Operations off the coast of Vietnam, and Mine Countermeasures Operations in North Vietnam. JOHN KING is currently a member of Destroyer Squadron Two, homeported in N0rf0llf, Va- n, ,
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JUHN 1865 1 ,, ,.. ,. .......l--.-..........,...... 5 V 1,-41 ' USS JOHN KINC KDDG-31 is named for two times Congressional Medal of Honor winner, Water Tender Chief john King. During his twenty-six years K1893 to 1919j he served in USS VICKSBURC and was aboard that vessel when she participated in Admiral Dewey7s Campaign at Manila Bay in 1898. It was on this vessel that he obtained his first Congressional Medal which reads, 'cOn board the USS VICKSBURG, for heroism in the line of his profession, at the time ofthe accident to the Boilers, 29 May 1901. His next Congressional Medal was awarded while he was on board the USS SALEM Ufor extraordinary heroism in the line of hisprofession on the occasion ofthe accident to one ofthe boilers of that vessel, 13 September 1909. - john King, a native of Ireland, was born in 1865. During the late 1800's he migrated to America, and enlisted in the Navy in 1893. We on the JOHN KING are proud of our enriched heritage and shall strive to sustain it through perseverance, courage and necessary tenac-ity. RWM? 1938
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