Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boatswain's Mate, Coxswain, Quartermaster, Signalman, Seaman, First & Second Class, Radioman, Carpenter's Mate, Shipfitter, Boilermaker, Electrician's Mate, Fireman, Yeoman, Storekeeper, Ships Cook and Machinist's Mate...
Wendell Willkie's son Philip, 22, an apprentice seaman, went off to Annapolis to study for an ensign's commission...
...Notified by the Navy that her brother was dead, Mrs. Eileen Peterson went to bed in Leominster, Mass., dreamed that she saw him wearing a bloody bandage on his head. On Christmas Day she heard from the Navy again: Curtis J. Farnsworth, seaman first class, "is now accounted for and will probably communicate with...
Astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch had the greatest single influence on U.S. navigation and seamanship. His Practical Navigator ("the seaman's Bible" -first published in 1802), revised and brought up to date by the U.S. Hydrographic Office, is still a standard text for U.S. seamen...
...Seaman's Bible. So when Edmund M. Blunt, just beginning his career as No. 1 U.S. publisher of nautical books, asked him to revise Moore, Bowditch said yes. By the time Bowditch finished, there was little left of Moore's book but its title. Bowditch revised most of Moore in his cabin: "The sounds of the moving ship provided a musical background for the slow and tedious work of preparing a guide for other ships." Carefully, he kept a record of every error he found in Moore, then added them up. There were more than 8,000. "When...