Winston B. Stephens, 17, student, saved Maurice H. Richardson, 19, and Haskell Williams, 18, from drowning, Westport Harbor, Massachusetts, September 6, 1906. With a rope tied to himself and the end held by a man 100 feet from the shore, Winston swam about 130 feet through breakers, from 6 to 10 feet high, to the two men, who had been thrown into the ocean by the capsizing of a cat-boat and were clinging, one on either side, to a 12-foot tender. As Winston reached them, the tender was capsized over him, and in getting from under it, he was struck on the head by it but was uninjured. With a hold on the rope, all three were pulled through the breakers to shallow water. 1556-130
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