He's college-trained tor America's merchant
marine: Ready to sail, save lives or light!
Uncle Sam needs 50,000 sailors.
He needs them just as fast as
he can get them. He needs
them to man the two merchantmen
that are sliding off the ways each day
— ships which will carry the stuff of
life and the munitions of war wherever
we can use them against the Axis.
Time was when these sailors would
have been shanghaied in waterfront
bars. Not today. This year many of
them come from college — sea college.
Meet a typical 1942 sailorman.
Freckle-faced, blue-eyed. A shy,
friendly smile. Just 21 yearsold. You’d
never spot him as a sailor. He speaks
with an inland twang, is blushingly
uncomfortable with most girls. But
he's a sailor; make no mistake about
that. Aboard ship he can show many
an officer a thing or two about the fine
points of the profession.
Folks back home always said he
was ‘‘one of our nicest boys.” Trust
worthy. Ambitious. Got out of high
school and worked around for a while.
He had hoped, once, to go to college,
but that was out. No money.
A recruiting officer for the Maritime
Service came to town, talked to him.
The boy had never seen salt water,
didn't know the difference between a
hawser and ahalf hitch. “That'sokay,”
the man said. “When you graduate
from Hoffman Island you’ll know as
much as Old Man Neptune himself."
Hoffman Island is in New York
Harbor. It used to be a quarantine
center. Today it is one of the six
training stations which the United
States Coast Guard operates for the
Maritime Service. Others are at Cal
lups Island, Boston; St. Petersburg,
Fla.; Point Hueneme, Cal., and Fort
Trumbull, New London, Conn. And
it’s no exaggeration to call them sea
colleges. In an intensive seven-months
course, partly in the classrooms and
shops on the island, partly on training
ships at sea. Students learn more sea
manship than oldtimers used to pick
up in years. Being taught to be sailors
in a world at war, they get a complete
course in gunnery — everything from
how to operate the range finder to
shooting daylight through kite-pulled
targets. Which will come in handy
now.
Uncle Sam pays the tuition — and
gives them $21 a month to boot, with
the assurance of much more as soon as
they qualify for an A.B. (And aboard
ship, that means Able-Bodied Seaman,
not Bachelor of Arts.) Most of them
are enrolled in the Naval Reserve; all
of them, when they graduate, become
members of the Maritime Service.
They usually get better than a
hundred a month on our new mer
chantmen. And they can take free cor
respondence courses — given by the
Coast Guard — to qualify for a still
higher rating, and better pay.
Students range from 18 to 23 years
of age. They come from everywhere —
farms, villages, cities. Few have ever
been in anything more nautical than a
rowboat. But they hear of this oppor
tunity through local State Employ
ment Offices, and sign up.
They study everything from arith
metic to maritime law. They learn to
row and sail, to save men overboard,
to man the guns.
Ahoy, sailor! Keep ’em sailing!
—Arthur Bartlett
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