Word: seamanship
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...roused from bed at 6:20, thereafter kept busy with classes, drills, athletics and a required study period (8 to 9:50 p.m.) until he turns in at 10:05 (except Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, which are free). About 55% of his studies are engineering and mathematics, 25% professional (seamanship, navigation, gunnery, naval history), 20% cultural (English, history and government, U.S. foreign policy, foreign languages). Every midship man must learn to handle small boats (oars and sails). To graduate, he must also pass tests in swimming, life saving, muscle strength, boxing, wrestling...
...subject midshipmen like best is seamanship. Hardest: ordnance (largely theoretical instruction in ballistics, etc.). Biggest disappointment to the class that graduated last week was the loss of some of its summer cruises: in a world at war there were no warships to spare to practice on. Because future war classes will have to study during summer to finish in three years, midshipmen will practice on ketches, YP (yard patrol) boats and subchasers on the Severn...
...ship a candidate is trained in the practical conduct of a craft's operation. He attends a formal series of lectures on gunnery, navigation, engineering, and seamanship. Mastering these fundamentals, he puts his knowledge to practice and gains actual experience...
...least two years of college. Through the summer and fall the students got their seagoing foundation in ships of the Atlantic Fleet: the battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this winter and spring in three-month classes...
Because of this, the Club will be able to sponsor a Shore School for the purpose of teaching the elements of sailing and seamanship to those members of the University who wish to learn how to sail or who need additional instruction in seamanship for a summer berth on a boat...