William B. Stacy

Seaman · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

Date not recorded · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: Massachusetts
Action: William B. Stacy, an unrecorded date

The citation

Official citation

While coaling ship in the harbor of Cape Haiten, one of the crew of the Rhode Island fell overboard, and, after catching a rope, had been forced by exhaustion, to relinquish his hold. Although the sea was running high at the time, Stacy, at the peril of his life, jumped overboard, secured the rope around his shipmate, and thus saved him from drowning Back to Campaign Index Top of page

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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