Lieutenant Lewis E. Wintz, R.N. (Now Commander De Wintz.)
From a Photo. by Henry Wayland, Blackheath.
LIEUT. LEWIS E. WINTZ, R.N.
"On the 19th December, 1877, H.M.S. Raleigh was running before a fresh breeze at the rate of seven knots an hour off the Island of Tenedos, when James Maker fell from aloft into the sea. Lieutenant Lewis E. Wintz immediately jumped overboard and supported the man for twenty minutes at considerable risk (not being able to reach the life-buoy). The man must undoubtedly have been drowned (being insensible and seriously injured) had it not been for the bravery of this officer."