Word: seaman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being voluntarily inducted into the Naval Unit automatically becomes a seaman in the United States Navy and will be housed, fed and instructed at the expense of the Government. The term of enlistment is four years, but if peace is declared before the expiration of that time, men will be allowed to resign if they have had three months' active service. While a member of the Naval Unit a man will receive the pay of an enlisted man in the Navy...
Applicants are accepted only for general service, and no men will be enrolled higher than chief petty officer. Those who enlist and remain in the seaman branches of the service will probably be used on the 110-foot scout boats, on transports, or on the convoy vessels of the Navy as soon as their period of training has come...
...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...
...Navy. Rear Admiral, 1 Commander, 1 Lieutenant Commander, 2 Paymaster, 18 Surgeon, 14 Mate, 2 Engineer, 1 Seaman, 1 -- Total...
...members of the club will travel by private car from New York to Philadelphia, and thence to Baltimore, for a performance in Albaugh's Lyceum Theatre on Friday. Tickets for all these presentations will be $2 each. For the New York engagement they may be secured from W. S. Seaman, Jr., 515 Madison avenue; at Philadelphia, from Guilliaem Aertsen, Jr., Franklin Bank Building; and at Baltimore, from W. Woodruff Marston, 1901 N. Charles street. Tickets may also be obtained from T. K. Richards '15, Hampden 28, or from N. Curtis, Jr., Stoughton...