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Medal of Honor Recipient

Francis Moore

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002542Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1882

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Medal of Honor

January 23, 1882

Washington Navy Yard, D.C., USA

Rank at action
Boatswain's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S. Training Ship Portsmouth

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Portsmouth, at the Washington Navy Yard, 23 January 1882, and endeavoring to rescue Thomas Duncan, carpenter and calker, who had fallen overboard.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Francis Moore — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002553
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
67eba24890a998c367f576867d9852da4e9ca46defb64881aa1c1d3480f4f2f3

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current reference profile confirms identity, the U.S. Training Ship Portsmouth, and the January 23, 1882 Washington Navy Yard lifesaving action. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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