Before making the presentation Rear-Admiral Holt stated:
On the morning of December 1937, during the bombing of British shipping at Wuhu by Japanese alr-raft, Mr. Hurst took control of the tug Chenyang, displaying remarkable powers of command over a. panic-Stricken native crew. By his seamanlike and fearless handling of the tug he made possible the rescue of the ship's company of, the s. Tuckwo from a dificult and dangerous situa-ton The Tuckwo had just arrived from Hankow for the purpose of removing British floating property from the vicinity of possible military objectives "NCD." Photo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.