Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking the R. O. T. C. cruise as part of their regular course in Naval Science the students were given instruction in every phase of seamanship from standing watch to piloting the boat. The students were entertained in every port with dances, teas, sight-seeing trips, and theatres...
...novices were Initiated into all the mysteries of seamanship on a Navy cruiser of the second line. They took turns at standing watch in all quarters of the ship, from bridge to fire-room. Lectures were held on the theory and practice of navigation, and the students were required to make detailed study and drawings of the more important parts of the engines and the navigating apparatus...
...engaged by a large corporation first in Birmingham, Alabama, then in Pittsburg and Chicago. He was in Chicago at the outbreak of the war and promptly joined the navy. Having never been on a ship or the ocean before, he was at once appointed an instructor in Practical Navigation, Seamanship. Naval Ordnance and Signals. "This experience," he declares, "was invaluable and Mr. Stewart came out of the Great War a deepened...
...more seaworthy. The temptation to build ships that would not roll?in order to gain passengers at the expense of safety?is old, however. The Germans followed that line a while before the War. But the old temptation has fewer followers nowadays. With steam vessels, the foremost part of seamanship is to keep them headed into a storm. What danger then? Very little, unless the captain be drunk?or unless her driving force go bad, her propeller shaft be broken, her engines stop in their ceaseless grind. In these days of several screws and several turbines, even that danger...
...they are not occupied in flying they are required to do all necessary work in connection with the upkeep and repair of planes under the supervision of Navy machanics. In the evenings from 8 to 9 o'clock there is ground school work covering radio, machine gunnery, navigation, and seamanship...