English: Original Navy Good Conduct Medal. Note: Good Conduct Medal Type I, Maltese cross, nickel, of the type issued between 1870 and 1884. Obverse: “FIDELITY – ZEAL – OBEDIENCE” in a circle with “U.S.N.” in the center. Reverse: blank but for the recipient’s name engraved in script. A one-half inch wide red, white, and blue ribbon was supplied without a suspension pin. The first recipients were sailors returning from a European cruise aboard sloop-of-war USS Iroquois (1859).