Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...join the Merchant Marine are first given preliminary training as uniformed apprentices, either in the deck or in the engineer department of a training ship to help them find their "sea legs," before going aboard a merchant vessel. This training is given on board large, well equipped ships, supplied with every accessory to healthful living. The training is intensive for two months, with a wholesome system of instruction and exercise lasting eight hours a day, and with proper intervals for rest and recreation. The apprentices are paid $30 a month, and given a uniform...
...contents of this number are in any event plenty, and excellent. The diversity is striking. We glimpse the ancient Maine of sailing-vessel days and the still more removed Russia of 1915; faculty salaries and freshman short-comings do not crowd out plays and "the other man's wife" and a charming song. The cartoonist has done his best--and worst--with the ineffable stipend of the poor harmless drudge. And a clever actress gets her picture in the paper...
...number of standardized sister ships are in various stages of completion. Whatever delay there may be in turning out cargo ships is not due to lack of workers or supplies, but to the lack of those enormous plants which are necessary for the construction of even a relatively small vessel. Lloyd George has again urged us to increase our shipbuilding to the maximum efficiency, not only to make good the losses due to the submarines, but also to manage the transportation of a greater army than we had planned. It is pleasing to us to note that in spite...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...
Leaving about the first of July, the ship will cruise from the Maine coast to the West Indies. A large part of the time will be spent on the open seas. The vessel will return after about two months. The captain and engineer will be on board to assist the crew composed of Yale men in the management of the yacht...