Evening star. [volume], August 25, 1946, Page 6, Image 87

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Manning the M
By A. A. HOEHLING
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY young
men from the District, Maryland and
Virginia are among the 1,200 merchant
marine cadets learning their -three R's”
of the sea at Kings Point, N. Y.
On this 80-acre former showplace of
the late Walter P, Chrysler, future of
icer.s of the Nation’s merchant marine
go . irough the final two years of a four
year course designed to produce “An
napolis and West Point*’ men.
Their skills are expected to play a
lemendous part in this country’s hid
foi international ocean travel and
ireight at a time when Great Britain's
° ( ~time challenge already is manifest.
Before going to Kings Point, on Long
Island Sound within sight of Manhattan,
the cadet-midshipmen, as they usually
aie called, have a taste of salt air behind
them.
As cadets—and they are given the very
same sort of "shaking down” which
cadets of any other school or institution
leceive they spent a year at sea. And
the year preceding they had basic train
ing either at Pass Christian, Miss., or
San Mateo. Calif. To get to one of these
schools they took civil service competi
tive examinations.
The Cadet Corps of the merchant ma
rine was established on March 15. 1938,
as a result of the Merchant Marine Act
of two years previous.
Kings Point, as the first permanent of
ficers’ training school for the service
offers courses in navigation, seamanship!
communications, cargo stowage, electri
cal and Diesel engineering, as well as
naval science and tactics, economics,
and languages.
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