USS John King (DDG-3)

Chief Watertender John King (1865-1938) twice awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on board USS Vicksburg and on 29 May 1901 and on board USS Salem on 3 September 1909.

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USS John King (DDG-3) was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 25 August 1958, launched on 30 January 1960 by Mrs. Paul J. Kilday, wife of Representative Kilday of Texas and commissioned on 4 February 1961. John King participated in blockade duties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. USS John King was decommissioned on 30 March 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 January 1993 and sold for scrap on 10 February 1999.