Name
William Atwood King. Given Name: William Atwood. Surname: King. [1]
Born
May 1884. Jamestown, RI, USA. [1]
Died
Mar 1954. Brighton, MA, USA. [1]
Buried
Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States of America. [1]
Note
William was a member of the Merchant Marines and the captain of various coastal and Narragansett Bay vessels. For many years he was a tugboat captain out of Newport RI. He was also a fisherman and worked for the Jamestown/Newport ferry company in later years. He was a veteran of WWI. He died at the Brighton Marine Hospital in Brighton Mass. although living in Jamestown RI at the time of his illness.
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