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Medal Name: For Courage and Humanity
Struck for: Captain Jared S. Crandall, Albert Crandall, Daniel F. Larkin, Frank Larkin, Byron Green, John D. Harvey, Courtland Gavitt, Eugene Nash,Edwin Nash and William Nash
Approval: Act of Congress February 24, 1873
OBVERSE
A man standing in a boat, a coil of rope under his left arm, directs oarsmen with his right hand to pull for the wreck of the Metis.
One of the men is lifting a woman from the sea into the boat.
To the right, in the background, a light-house.
REVERSE
BY RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS FEBRUARY 24, 1873.
Within a wreath of Oak:
TO
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FOR COURAGE AND HUMANITY IN THE SAVING OF LIFE FROM THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER METIS ON LONG ISLAND SOUND AUGUST 31, 1872
BACKGROUND
Resolution of Congress Voting Medals to Captain Crandall and others.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to cause to be made and presented to each of the following persons such suitable and appropriate medals, as in his judgment shall express the high estimation in which Congress hold the respective merits and services of Captain Jared S. Crandall, Albert Crandall, Daniel F. Larkin, Frank Larkin, Byron Green, John D. Harvey, Courtland Gavitt, Eugene Nash,Edwin Nash and William Nash of the town of Westerly, State of Rhode Island, who so gallantly volunteered to man the life-boat and a fishing boat, and saved the lives of thirty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis," on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Approved February 24, 1873.
Source: The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. Loubat, LL.D. (1878)