(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Chief Boilerman Horace W. Hall, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as a member of the trial crew from the Mare Island Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, attached to the United States Naval Service. BENEVOLENCE, following a collision with the SS MARY LUCKENBACH in a heavy fog off the east coast of San Francisco, California, 25 August 1950.