The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Ensign Howard R. Shaw, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Officer of the Deck of the U.S.S. CHRISTABEL on the occasion of an encounter with an enemy submarine on 21 May 1918, in promptly heading for the submarine with the intent to ram, with the result that it was possible to drop depth charges at the right time and place, damaging the submarine so severely that she was obliged to intern at Santander, Spain, for the remainder of the war.