Word: seamanship
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...Navy transport Alchiba is back at sea again, eight months after officially being reported lost. Her log book is an epic of seamanship, brilliant salvage work and heroism...
Naval Science puts its members through a four year course, ordinarily, with a commission at the end. Designed to produce deck officers, the course emphasizes seamanship, navigation, gunnery, and communications. Students enroll for a four year stretch, and the present crop will all finish their college courses and must got degrees before they can be commissioned, although acceleration will made this far lees than a four year term for many...
...been sending a steady stream of raw material, all volunteers, through its four months' school at Sheepshead Bay, New York. All amateur sailors, when inducted at local offices of the Commission, must agree to serve at sea for a full year after they have completed their training in elementary seamanship. Physical requirements for applicants are especially tough, much similar to regular Army specifications...
...director of the American South African Line, and nearly 20 years of sea duty during which he once skippered a ship on which Joe Curran was serving as a common seaman. Under Wauchope's direction, trainees at Sheepshead get basic lifeboat-handling drill, elementary courses in deck seamanship, and engineering courses in which they stand regular watch at equipment duplicating conditions aboard Liberty ships...
Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall said that Army men were "deeply grateful for the skillful seamanship that has escorted 800,000 of them safely across the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic and Pacific." Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, said that General Marshall's letter gave "evidence enough, if evidence is needed, to assure our fellow citizens that all the armed forces of the United States are united in singleness of purpose...