The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant, Junior Grade Roy M. Hutchins, United States Coast Guard, for extremely heroic conduct while serving aboard the U.S.C.G.C. ALGONQUIN during the rescue from a lifeboat of survivors of the wrecked S.S. SVEND FOYNE in North Atlantic near Greenland on 21 March 1943. When the helpless men, weak and numb from exposure to the wind and freezing water were physically unable to cooperate with the ship’s crew Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Hutchins climbed over the side of his vessel, which was rolling from 20 to 30 degrees and descended the cargo net. Although exceptionally rough seas were swamping the lifeboat he went aboard made lines fast fore and aft and tied lines around two of the small craft’s exhausted occupants. After one man had been halted onto the ALGONQUIN, Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Hutchins extricated the second from entanglement in a coil thereby enabling him to be lifted to the deck. He undoubtedly saved the lives of two men who otherwise might have perished.