U.S. Navy
Francis Moore
ConflictNoncombat
Year of Action1882
Unit/CommandUSS Portsmouth
BirthplaceNew York
Citation
For jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Portsmouth, at the Washington Navy Yard, 23 January 1882, and endeavoring to rescue Thomas Duncan, carpenter and calker, who had fallen overboard.
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