CLARENCE ALEXANDER
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Officer Rank: Petty Officer
Memorial Panel: 16-W: 29
Department: U.S. Coast Guard
End of Watch: February 20, 1927
Cause: DROW
Age: 22
Years of Service: 2
Description: Petty Officer Alexander, along with seven other crew members, drowned in a boating accident while on patrol for rum runners along the Cape Cod coast. Their picket boat CG-238 was disabled in a 70 mile gale and in a heavy snowstorm that lasted over 12 hours. The crew radioed for help but the boat crashed before assistance arrived. Warrant Officer Jesse Rivenback, Petty Officers Joseph Maxim, Cornelius Shea, Leo Krzyzanowski, Charles Freeburn, Raymond Clark and Frank McCausland all died in this incident.
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