The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Quarter Gunner George Holt, United States Navy, for gallant and heroic conduct while serving on board the U.S.S. Plymouth, Hamburg Harbor, 3 July 1871. Jumping overboard at the imminent risk of his life, Quarter Gunner Holt, with a comrade, rescued from drowning one of a party who was thrown from a shore boat into a four-knot, running tide while the boat was coming alongside the ship.