The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Ronald Neil Stuart, British Expeditionary Forces, for extraordinary heroism in action on 15 October 1917, as Commanding Officer of the H.M.S. TAMARISK. Lieutenant Stuart came to the aid of the torpedoed American destroyer U.S.S. CASSIN and put a tow line aboard her in total darkness in midst of a howling gale.