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Medal of Honor Recipient

Paul Tobin

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002715Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1871

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Medal of Honor

July 3, 1871

Hamburg Harbor, Germany

Rank at action
Landsman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Plymouth

The Citation

Sources ↓
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 & record notes

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

  1. Paul Tobin — 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-002728
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
180
Entered service at
Brest, France
Archive transcription SHA-256
f4e72debc139d25d8c5247e9991697da6b5cc1d60b4f19dee04d0f3411a831bc

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

Current reference profile was substantively compared against the inherited identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation. Candidate rank or successful page rendering alone was not treated as verification.

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