Name/Title
NewspaperEntry/Object ID
1985.011.0032Scope and Content
Small section of a newspaper article which might have been a list of navy/merchant marine sailors on a ship's roster or perhaps a list of casualties. It reads:
"HARRISON, Seaman 1c John Charles, USN. Mrs. Samuel Harrison, mother, 208 W. G - St. Benicia."
cut to size: 3/8" x 3-5/8"
John Harrison was a member of the crew of the Liberty Ship
SS John Burke, which met with a disaster at sea in 1944.
The SS John Burke (609) was an American Liberty Ship delivered to the US Maritime Commission on December 12, 1942 only 33 days after construction began.
On December 28, 1944, while transporting ammunition in a convoy to Mindoro, Philippines, the Burke was hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft and disintegrated in a tremendous explosion with the loss of all sixty-eight hands. The John Burke was one of three Liberty Ships an one of forty-seven ships sunk by Kamikaze attack during World War II.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection