The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Commander Millington Barnett McComb, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. CHRISTOBEL, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in escorting and protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted, against all forms of enemy naval activity; and especially for an engagement with an enemy submarine on 21 May 1918, as a result of which the convoy under escort of the CHRISTOBEL was protected and the submarine so completely disabled that she was compelled to intern at Santander, Spain, for the remainder of the war.