Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half weeks the reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted...
Bitterly he described the machine-gunning of sailors in open boats as they returned from church services. His Jap grudge was fed also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess...
...sharp heeling over of the ship flung me sliding down the starboard side into the sea. Hundreds of officers and seamen plunged into the water with me. Anderson had reached the starboard railing a little to the right of me. I heard him shout something to an officer as I slid into the sea. I never saw him again...
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...
...seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...