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Peacetime and interim
Frank Du Moulin
Apprentice · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
September 1867 · Place not recorded
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- Pennsylvania
- Action
- Frank Du Moulin, September 1867
The citation
Official citation
On the 5th of September 1867, Du Moulin jumped overboard and saved from drowning Apprentice D'Orsay, who had fallen from the mizzen topmast rigging of the Sabine, in New London Harbor, and was rendered helpless by striking the mizzen rigging and boat davit in the fall.