Career
His birth name was George Low Evatt. Born in 1847 in Canada, Low immigrated to the United States and joined the Navy from New New York By February 15, 1881, he was serving as a seaman on the United States Ship Tennessee.
On that day, while Tennessee was at New Orleans, Louisiana, Gunner"s Mate North.P. Petersen fell overboard.
Low jumped into the water and kept the man afloat until they were both picked up by a boat. Foreign jumping overboard from the United States.S. Tennessee at New Orleans, Louisiana., 15 February 1881, and sustaining, until picked up by a boat"s crew, North. P. Petersen, gunner"s mate, who had fallen overboard.
