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Show Stoker's Act of Bravery. In these days of undersea warfare, when the blow is often struck without warning, a new danger is added to the already hazardous tasks of the ship's firemen. Speed is an essential In heating the U-boat, and this requires constant work. Recently the bottom blow valve of a boiler was carried away on a vessel of the United States navy. One of the crew was Aloyslus Fawcett. a fireman, first class. With two others he made his way through a steam-filled fireroom and fought a passage through a hot cloud in the engine room. Here he helped haul the fires at a critical moment. The nerve and quickness of the act saved the boiler and the vessel ves-sel from serious accident. Fawcett enlisted en-listed in the navy in 1911, at Cincinnati. |