Harry F. Smith was one of 66 crew members killed in one of the Navy’s worst peacetime disasters, when the U.S.S. Bennington boiler exploded on July 21, 1905.
Ordinary Seaman Harry F. Smith was 23 years old when he died. He was from Harrisonville, MO.
Harry Smith is buried at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma, California in the Bennington Monument.
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