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...commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...
...said that the present custom of stationing "side-boys" and a boatswain's mate to ''pipe the side" in the starboard accommodation ladder gangway, as part of the ceremony in formally receiving commissioned officers and distinguished civil officials, is a hangover from the time when ships had no accommodation ladders and guests reached the deck seated in a boatswain's chair attached to a whip. Orders to "walk away handsomely" on the whip were given through the boatswain's pipe (whistle...
...verdict and sentence he saw fitting. Lieutenant E. A. Scay, U.S. Navy, assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, acted as adviser to the judge advocate and to the counsel for the defense. The witnesses for the defense were Lieutenant R. G. Worner '33, U. S. Navy, and Boatswain John Wiggins '33, U. S. Navy, Lieutenant D. H. Morse '33, U. S. Navy, was the counsel for the accused...
Immediately suspicious, Chief Boatswain's Mate Karl E. Schmidt commanding the Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin...
Toward midnight Boatswain R. Anderson of the Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. 215 sighted the Sabalo's wavering beacon, overtook her. What happened next was a matter of strange dispute. Capt. Kelley later charged that C. G. 215 ignored his plea for help and steamed away. Boatswain Anderson insisted his offer of aid had been declined, that he had trailed the Sabalo which, he said, steamed for about an hour with its searchlight turned...