Report to Congress on Training Merchant Marine Personnel: January 1, 1939

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Merchant marine - 123 pages

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Page 97 - To further the development and maintenance of an adequate and wellbalanced American merchant marine, to promote the commerce of the United States, to aid in the national defense, to repeal certain former legislation, and for other purposes.
Page 97 - Commission is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, to establish and maintain the United States Maritime Service as a voluntary organization for the training of citizens of the United States to serve as licensed and unlicensed personnel on American merchant vessels.
Page 22 - ... years, on public vessels of the United States or such other seagoing vessels documented under the laws of the United States as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy.
Page 23 - That said vessels shall take, as cadets or apprentices, one American-born boy under twenty-one years of age for each one thousand tons gross register, and one for each majority fraction thereof, who shall be educated in the duties of seamanship, rank as petty officers, and receive such pay for their services as may be reasonable.
Page 97 - Government; (8) may, with the consent of any board, corporation, commission, independent establishment, or executive department of the Government, including any field service thereof, avail itself of the use of information, services, facilities, officers, and employees thereof in carrying out the provisions of this section...
Page 30 - Is authorized to determine the ^ number of persons to be enrolled in the said Service, to fix the rates of pay of such persons, and to prescribe such courses and periods of training as, in its discretion, is necessary to maintain a trained and efficient merchant marine personnel. The ranks, grades, and ratings for the personnel of the said Service shall be the same as are now or shall hereafter be prescribed for the personnel of the Coast Guard.
Page 97 - To make and enforce such rules and regulations as the commission may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this compact or to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof...
Page 42 - Man is not by nature a seaman. The sea, the vessel, the life is so distinct from man's natural mode of life that it has always taken years of training to make a seaman. His thoughts and feelings need the training as absolutely as does his body. Nearly all real seamen began the life in early youth. It was always one step at a time from boy to master. The sea has not changed. Human nature has not altered very materially. The training is as much needed as it ever was. Seamen are not made on shore. They...
Page 97 - The ranks, grades, and ratings for personnel of the said Service shall be the same as are now or shall hereafter be prescribed for the personnel of the Coast Guard. The...
Page 19 - Navy to furnish, upon the application of the Governor of a State, a suitable vessel of the Navy to be used for the benefit of any nautical school established at any...

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