The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Robert Stevenson Haggart, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. HULL, acting as escort to troops and merchant convoys from Hampton Roads, and in patrolling against enemy submarines on the Atlantic Coast, from June to October 1918. Through his zeal and energy this old destroyer was kept actively on duty.