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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Penn

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002598Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

July 20, 1898

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Rank at action
Fireman First Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Iowa

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Iowa off Santiago de Cuba, 20 July 1898. Performing his duty at the risk of serious scalding at the time of the blowing out of the manhole gasket on board the vessel, Penn hauled the fire while standing on a board thrown across a coal bucket 1 foot above the boiling water which was still blowing from the boiler.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Penn — 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-002610
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
501
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
61f9eafed2433105cefb46637965777af8f4d788da72c65b91093478981b09ee

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, USS Iowa, and the July 20, 1898 Santiago de Cuba 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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