Sponsors at the christening of the Brig. General Royal T. Frank


Title
Sponsors at the christening of the Brig. General Royal T. Frank
Description
Sponsor with a group at the christening of the US Army mine planter Brigadier General Royal T. Frank (MP-12) made by the Marietta Manufacturing Company in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Hull number 485. The woman on the far right is Lacey Hall, the 16 year old daughter of Colonel C. L. Hall (US Engineers).
Date
October 31, 1942
Original Format
photographs
Extent
24cm x 19cm
Local Identifier
0742-s2-ss2.1-b26-fd-i415
Subject(s)
Spatial
Location of Original
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Comments

Frank Webb Jul 10 2015

My grandfather was given a handmade replica of this ship when he worked for Atlantic Richfield during the war. The Frank was stationed at Ft. Myles DE and would come up the Delaware to re-fuel. His notes claim her service number to be 172. Can anyone verify that?

Maile Melrose from Kona, Hawaii May 23 2014

This ship took the place of the first Royal T. Frank sunk in Hawaiian waters on Jan. 28, 1942 by a Japanese submarine.  There is a war memorial in Kealakekua honoring the five young men from the Kona District killed in that attack, a tall white marble cross on a lava and mortar base in the Central Kona Union Church cemetery.  Seventeen Hawaii Island soldiers died in that attack, but the names of the five from Kona are remembered still, thanks to this Memorial.

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