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To the memory of
Charles Flint Putnam
master US Navy
who volunteered for duty on board the
United States steamer Rodgers, a vessel
despatched to the Arctic Ocean for the relief
of the Jeannette exploring expedition.
After having
gallantly succored his shipwrecked companions
while returning to his station at Cape
Serdze Kamen Siberia, he drifted out to sea and
perished, along on the ice in Saint Lawrence Bay,
Behring Straits, about January 11, 1882.
This table is erected by his friends and
brother officers in loving remembrance and as
a memorial of his heroic sacrifice. |