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U.S. Navy

Richard Bates

ConflictNoncombat

Year of Action1866

Unit/CommandUSS Winooski

Citation

For heroic conduct in rescuing from drowning James Rose and John Russell, seamen of the USS Winooski, off Eastport, Maine, 10 May 1866.

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