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Peacetime and interim
John Laverty
First Class Fireman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
14 September 1881 · USS Alaska
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- California
- Action
- USS Alaska
The citation
Official citation
Serving on board the U.S.S. Alaska at Callao Bay, Peru, 14 September 1881. Following the rupture of the stop-valve chamber on that vessel, Laverty hauled the fires from under the boiler,