Period:

Crimean War (1853-1856)

Rank:

Captain of the Mast

Unit:

HMS Arrogant, Royal Navy

Awarded on:

February 24th, 1857

George Ingouville, Captain of the Mast.

On the 13th of July, 1855, while the boats of the Arrogant were engaged with the enemy's gun-boats and batteries off Viborg, her second cutter was swamped by the blowing up of her magazine, and drifted under a battery. Notwithstanding that he was wounded in the arm, and that the boat was under a very heavy fire, Ingouville, without any order to do so, jumped overboard, caught hold of her painter, and saved her.

Despatch from Captain Yelverton, 18th November, 1855, and Rear-Admiral Honourable Sir B. T. Dundas, 12th December, 1855, No. 759.

Period:

Crimean War (1853-1856)