Sailor and Master-At-Arms. Received the Congessional Medal of Honor for action during the Spanish-American war.

Born in Ireland but raised near Liverpool, England. Joined the Royal Navy, and then transfered to the US Navy.

Other than the congressional citation noted below, my only knowledge of Daniel comes from the biographical web page, Chief Master-At-Arms, Daniel Montague, at the Spanish-American War Centennial website.

I no longer can locate the URL from which I obtained the following. I believe it was a list of receipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

MONTAGUE, DANIEL
Rank and organization: Chief Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy.
Born: 22 October 1867, Wicklow, Ireland.
G.O. No.: 529, 2 November 1899.
Citation: In connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. Merrimac at the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, 2 June 1898. Despite heavy fire from the Spanish batteries, Montague displayed extraordinary heroism throughout this operation.

The mission consisted of running an old coal-transport freighter into a harbor, protected by Spanish forts, in which the entire Spanish fleet was bottled up. The idea was to blow-up and sink the freighter in a crucial ship-channel, thus trapping the entire Spanish fleet "permanently" in the harbor.

Daniel was second in command in a volunteer crew of 8 men on the freighter. He was the man at the stern that had to drop the anchor, thus fixing the ship at the right point in the channel. On the run in, heavy fire from the forts and the Spanish fleet was directed at the freighter, and her steering-lines were hit, making it impossible to steer the ship into the crucial location in the channel. Otherwise, the mission apparently went as planned. The entire crew was captured and imprisoned.

Any additional information would be appreciated.

Sources:
Daniel Montague web-page.