Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of the nautical training schools for the instruction of officers of the new merchant marine has been opened in the Students' Astronomical Laboratory of the University. Fourteen similar schools will be established at different parts along the Atlantic coast to recruit and train the 10,000 officers needed for the merchant ships to be built...
According to present plans the other schools will be maintained at Gloucester, New Bedford; Tiverton, R. I.; Greenport, L. I.; Machias, Rockland, Boothbay Harbor, and Portland, Me. Later the training system may be extended to the Pacific coast and the Great Lakes. Dean Burton, of Technology, has been placed in charge of the instruction at these several schools...
...university to undertake a naval course. At the end of January, when war seemed certain, Mr. W. E. D. Stokes wrote to the secretary of the university and offered-to start a fund with $1,000 if the Yale Navy would take up the work of training men for coast defence. We issued a notice asking for volunteers of seagoing experience. We expected about 50 men; 300 applications were received. Professor H. L. Seward, a man of great experience in coastwise navigation, laid out a course of instruction and organized a teaching staff. This division met three evenings a week...
...Junior class at Yale has lost the greatest number of men on account of enlistments in government service. To date the total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...required will serve as gunners-mates, boatswains'-mates, quartermasters, seamen, engineers, electricians, machinists, riggers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, riveters, ship-carpenters, firemen, coal passers, cooks, stewards, radio operators, and in many other capacities in coast and off-shore duty, whereby men of the regular navy may be relieved for duties abroad...