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Peacetime and interim
Paul Tobin
Landsman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
3 July 1871 · USS Plymouth
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Action
- USS Plymouth
The citation
Official citation
On board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Hamburg Harbor, 3 July 1871. Jumping overboard at the imminent risk of his life, Tobin, with a comrade, rescued from drowning one of a party who was thrown from a shore boat into a 4-knot running tide while the boat was coming alongside the ship.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
