Bartlett Laffey, USN, Medal of Honor Recipient-- Part 1: Born In Ireand

From Wikipedia.

Yesterday, in my Tattooed On Your Soul World War II blog, I wrote about a movie "Destroyer" that will be made about the USS Laffey, a ship that survived a huge kamikaze attack and was given the name "The Ship That Wouldn't Die."

The USS Laffey was named after Bartlett Laffey and a previous destroyer named Laffey that was sunk at the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.

1841-March 22, 1901.

An Irish-born U.S. Navy sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Born in County Galway, Ireland, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy from Massachusetts on March 17, 1862 and assigned to the stern wheel gunboat USS Marmora.

--Old B-Runner