Medal of Honor
1905-01-25
U.S.S. Iowa at Sea, Caribbean Sea
- Rank at action
- Fireman First Class
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1899 - 1910
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Iowa
- Presentation date
- March 20, 1905
The Citation
Sources ↓Serving on board the U.S.S. Iowa for extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing-out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board that vessel, 25 January 1905.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Demetri Corahorgi — current citation source ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-22
current identity, action metadata, and full citation transcription
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000059
- Transcription status
- Current-source full text
- Last source check
- 2026-08-22
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 182
- Entered service at
- New York
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- afbf45e79dcc9ee1f00b009160e22c162b3184a26646d00a899d2a4b58729e14
current_profile_transcription_with_whitespace_and_display_punctuation_normalized
Replaced an unrelated modern Iowa City geocode with the shipboard action place and populated the vessel as the unit.