JAMES FRANCIS O'CONNER
Landsman, Engineer's Force, US Navy; USS Jean Sands
Born: 28 November 1861, Portsmouth, Virginia
Died: 17 September 1940
Citation: For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Norfolk Navy Yard, on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.
WILLIAM SWEENEY
Landsman, Engineer's Force, US Navy; USS Jean Sands
Born: 1856, Boston, Massachusetts
Died: Unknown
Citation: For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.
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