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The USS Bennington Monument in San Diego commemorates the 66 killed in the 21 July 1905 boiler explosion. The eleven men who were awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism displayed at the time of the explosion" were: [16] [22] Edward William Boers, Seaman; George F. Brock, Carpenter's Mate Second Class
USS Bennington (PG-4), San Diego, California Jul 21, 1905 Extraordinary heroism, while minimizing loss of life, and material damage while saving his ship, after a boiler explosion
He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington as a hospital steward when on July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. Although he suffered severe third degree burns over much of his body in the explosion he assisted other wounded as much as he could and was credited with saving the lives of ...
It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington (PG-4), a gunboat of the United States Navy, whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay. [1] The explosion showered the vessel with live steam and scalding water, killing 66 men (1 officer and 65 other sailors) and burning an additional 46.
On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California, when a boiler exploded. The combination of the explosion and the scalding steam killed a number of men outright and left others mortally wounded; the final death toll was one officer, Ensign Newman K. Perry and sixty-five men, making it one of the U.S. Navy's worst peacetime ...
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Emil Fredericksen or Fredreksen (1867–1950) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.He earned the award for rescuing injured shipmates despite hazardous conditions following a 1905 boiler explosion aboard his ship, USS Bennington (PG-4).
Bennington after the explosion on 21 July 1905 which killed 66 in San Diego. By mid-1905, Turpin had been assigned to the gunboat Bennington.When that ship was raising steam for a departure from San Diego, California, on 21 July 1905, she suffered a boiler explosion that sent men and machinery into the air and killed 66 of the 102 men aboard. [5]