The basement included the baggage and laundry rooms.
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These photos show mariners dining at the cafeteria as well as the kitchen, workers, and murals on the walls.
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Mariners and employees waiting in line for accommodations
Boarding rooms, including one under construction and an early architectural rendering
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Merchant mariners waiting and socializing in SCI's lobby.
SCI ran a small publishing house out of the Magazine Room.
15 State Street Cornerstone Laying Ceremony
Rededication of the cornerstone from 25 South Street to 15 State Street. Rev. Pictured are Roscoe T. Foust, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Franklin E. Vilas.
SCI operated a reading room at 21 Coenties Slip from 1889-1906.
SCI's third headquarters started construction in 1989 and opened in May 1991.
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Chris Svendsen at 241 Water Street Exhibit Gallery
Mariner Chris Svendsen observing ship models at Water Street Galleries, which exhibited ship models, oil paintings, prints, and engravings.
25 South Street Alcoholics Assitance Bureau
SCI's Department of Special Services founded the Alcoholics Assistance Bureau in 1945 in cooperation with the Seamen's Branch of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Danish Seamen's Club was opened in February 1945 in SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street.
25 South Street Seamen's Savings Department
The Seamen's Savings Department (also known as the Seamen's Funding Department and the Seamen's Wages Department) was set up for mariners to save money or send money home.
black and white photographs and colored lantern slides
A dining room on its opening day December 3, 1928 and the Officer's Dining Room circa 1913.
The new entrance to 25 South Street opened on March 5, 1928. Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Janet L. Roper, the Sir Galahad Memorial, and Christmas decorations are shown.
The Dutch Seamen's Club opened in 1940 in SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street. Photos of the club's wall mural are included along with Jean Hersholt, Lauritz Melchior, and Victor Borge.
The SCI employment bureau located temporary jobs for unemployed mariners.
Black and white, sepia, and color photographs, postcards, drawings, and lantern slides of the exterior of 25 South Street. The building is shown in the New York City skyline, with aerial views, shots of the building with and without the annex, views of the building during the evening with the illuminated cross and Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, and preparation of the building for demolition in 1968.
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drawings
The game room was set up at SCI to help entertain mariners with bowling, billiards, card games, checkers and chess. Represented are Trevor M. Barlow playing billiards, Janet L. Roper bowling, and child cadet P.T. Lewis and engineer John Dunn of the torpedoed freighter Winkleigh playing checkers.
black and white photographs and lantern slides
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25 South Street Hotel Rooms and Dormitories
Private rooms and shared dormitories for sailors. Some are shown under renovation.
International Seamen's Club at 15 State Street
The International Seamen's Club was a meeting place that also held events, such as the Charles Rouse concert in May 1974 and the Halloween Dance in 1974, both pictured here. Rev. James R. Whittemore and members of the National Maritime Union are also pictured.
International Seamen's Club at 25 South Street
The International Seamen's Club was a meeting place that also held events. The filming of NBC documentary "The City of Ships" in 1964 is also pictured.
The lobby served as a meeting and waiting place, and featured a mural, United Nations flags, an elaborate floor compass, and seasonal decorations.
Painted by Lt. Cmdr. Edmond James Fitzgerald , the 37-foot mural depicted the role of merchant mariners in the World War II Normandy invasion. In addition to views of the mural, Capt. Percy H. Hauffman, 2Asst. Engr. Francis E. Rack, Alexander Waigant, Sten Nordh, L. Gordon Hamersley, Robert A. Constantine, and Clarence G. Michalis are shown at the unveiling.
The Marine Museum began on the third floor of 25 South Street in 1953 and continued exhibiting items donated by mariners and shipping lines until SCI relocated to 15 State Street in 1968. Photos show the museum as well as mariner Chris Svendsen building and observing ship models and Rev. John M. Mulligan inspecting museum objects.
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The print shop printed The Lookout magazine, flyers, and event announcements for both distribution to mariners in town and for mailing to SCI donors.
Seamen enjoying their lounge. Janet L. Roper is shown in some photos.
The sloppe chest distributed clothing, shoes, socks, underwear, and toiletries to shipwrecked mariners.
Swedish Seamen's Club at 25 South Street
SCI provided a tailor on site to help alter seamen's clothing.
25 South Street William D. Tracy Dental Clinic
Men's Shelter at 39th Street Ferry Terminal (Battery Maritime Building)
The 39th Street Ferry House Men's Shelter was built in response to the Panic of 1920. In cooperation with the Department of Public Welfare and the Mayor's Committee on Relief, SCI opened this temporary station for unemployed seamen on November 7, 1921. This facility provided beds, hot showers, laundry services and food for 500 men each night until it closed on April 15, 1922.
This facility was located inside what is now known as the Battery Maritime Building
The International Society for the Aid of Greek Seamen (ANGYRA)
ANGYRA was established in 1952 and moves it's offices into SCI's 25 South Street headquarters in 1958.
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SCI announced plans to build an annex to 25 South Street in 1924. Construction began in 1925 and the annex officially opened in 1928. The old buildings on Front Street, demolished in 1925 to build the annex, construction of the annex, and a partially finished view of the annex are shown.
Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for the 25 South Street Annex
Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Edmund L. Baylies, Adm. William S. Sims and Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield are shown at the cornerstone dedication service for the 25 South Street Annex on November 5, 1925
The Apprentice Room provided young men a place to read and play games under the supervision of Edith Baxter.
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The Atlantic Bell was salvaged from the shipwrecked steamer Atlantic at Fishers Island, NY
The auditorium held a wide variety of events. In addition to the empty and filled room, there is a photograph of a man operating equipment backstage and one of members of the United States Coast Guard during a training exercise.
SCI Headquarters at 1 State Street (Battery Station)
Battery Station at 1 State Street was SCI's headquarters from 1902-1913. One photograph is from after SCI's tenancy in February 1944.
Rev. Bauer was the chaplain of the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y.
Edmund L. Baylies was President of SCI from 1913 until his death on April 29, 1932.
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"Ships, the Lifeline of Britain" Benefit Party
Marie Louise Bennett was personal secretary to Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield from 1910 until her death in 1921.
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SCI board members including Edmund L. Baylies, Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Radm. Alfred T. Mahan, Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, and Rev. John M. Mulligan.
The Breakwater Hotel was operated by SCI from 1908-1913.
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Brooklyn Station was operated by SCI from 1904-1907.
NYS Canal Systems Operations, including Erie Barge Canal and Lock #2 in Waterford, NY.
SCI owned property within Cedar Grove cemetery to bury merchant mariners without relatives.
Centennial celebrations including "Shanghaiing in a Waterfront Dive", a set designed by Gordon Grant, and a portrait of Sir Ashley Sparks, Christopher Morley, Charles R. Patterson and Radm. Reginald R. Belknap.
The chapel held many events, notably Maundy Thursday service and the baptism of the son of Henry C. B. Lindh, member of the Board of Managers, by Rev. John M. Mulligan.
The chapel held regular services for mariners. Rev. James R. Whittemore and Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., 13th Bishop of New York, are pictured.
The chapel held regular services, as well as Christmas (and other holiday) services, weddings, and funerals. Included is a group portrait of Rev. Lawrence A. Harkness, Rt. Rev. William T. Manning and Rev. Harold H. Kelley, photos of Rev. Raymond S. Hall and Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, and a group portrait of Revs. Joseph D. Huntley, James Savoy, G. Basil Hollas, William Haynsworth, Richard J. Bauer, Francis D. Daley, Roscoe T. Foust, John M. Mulligan and Charles Boyton. The stained glass windows were provided by funds from the legacy of William H. Vanderbilt in 1888, and the altar's reredos seascape was painted by Gordon Grant.
The reredos seascape mural was painted by Gordon Grant
All Saints Episcopal Church was formerly the second Floating Church of Our Savior (1869-1911).
Activities of the department included the Argo Merchant Liberian Inquiry with Jan D. Uiterwyk, which was held in the Ship Model Room on the third floor.
Devens began serving on SCI's board of managers in 1958.
SCI operated the East River Station from 1869-1906
SCI employees at work and at Christmas, Thanksgiving, and retirement parties. Among the employees represented are Edith Baxter, Ida Cathers, Rev. Francis D. Daley, Sal DiLapi, Betty Eberhardt, Rev. Roscoe T. Foust, John Peter Johanson, Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Frances Kellogg, Charlotte Kennedy, Rev. John M. Mulligan, Janet L. Roper, Beth Tierney, and Leslie C. Westerman.
Exhibits including the Old Synod Hall exhibit held at the Cathedral St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.) ca. 1915; the Tri-Annual Convention of the Episcopal Church held in Detroit (Mich.) ca. 1919, with Trevor M. Barlow, Marie Louise Bennett, John Johanson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, and Janet L. Roper; General Conventions of the Episcopal Church held in Atlantic City (N.J.) ca. 1934, Kansas City (Mo.) ca. 1940, and San Francisco (Calif.) ca. 1949; and motorboat shows ca. 1933, 1934 (showing Otto Lang sitting at a table making a rope bag), 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1947.
The Fir Grove ship is pictured in port in Seattle (Wash.) Inui Steamship Company, the owner of Fir Grove and its sister ships Pine Forest and Southern Aster, was found guilty on October 14, 1992 of wage abuse and faulty bookkeeping by the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. The 21-member Filipino crew, with the help of SCI, filed suit against Inui Steamship Company and were awarded $40 million, the largest maritime wage settlement in history.
Damaged boats including Cape Race on May 24, 1950; Cape North on May 24, 1950 and August 17, 1950; and Cape Donlen on May 25, 1950.
The first Floating Church of Our Savior, moored at the foot of Pike Street in 1844 and in operation until 1868. The Church was converted from the ferryboat MANHATTAN and presided over by the Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker.
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York
The second Floating Church of Our Savior, including photos of Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield’s last service at the second Floating Church of Our Savior in 1910, the towing of the church to Staten Island in 1911, and All Saints Episcopal Church in Staten Island (formerly the second Floating Church of Our Savior) before and during the fire that destroyed it in 1958.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Institute of Maritime and General Studies
The institute was housed at 15 State Street, SCI's headquarters from 1968-1985.
Rev. Raymond S. Hall was the director of SCI from 1948-1960. Rev. Hall is shown with wife and son on deck of S. S. Independence; interacting with mariners; speaking at the American Association of Port Authorities’ 40th Annual Convention on Oct. 27, 1951; at the National Conference of Seamen’s Agencies on the Dalzell tugboat in June 1955; on the “Tompkinsville” ferry celebrating the 50th anniversary of ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan in 1955; attending Graduation Day at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point (N.Y.) with wife on Feb. 24, 1956; and at the Communion Breakfast of the St. George Association on May 24, 1959.
This annual event was held at SCI's Port Newark Station. Color photographs are from 1987, black and white photographs are from 1985.
The J. Hooker Hamersley was given to SCI in 1915. In addition to transporting crews to and from ships, the boat was used as a training vessel during World War I.
James Slip at South Street, New York, NY
The Janet Roper club provided seafarers with a place to take their friends and families for entertainment and leisure activities. Pictured are Madeleine Carroll selling war bonds and stamps on September 23, 1943; a luncheon on May 18, 1954 with Clarence G. Michalis; Rev. Raymond S. Hall with Hy Gardner during the filming of the NBC television program “Tonight” in 1957; and volunteer Helen Adams talking to United States Coast Guard officer Joseph Pisarra.
Jeannette Park was located next to SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street
J. Augustus Johnson was elected as Lay Manager to SCI’s Board of Managers in 1882. Johnson also served as Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and fought for seafarers’ legal protection. He succeeded in convincing Congress to pass the White Bill, which granted mariners comprehensive rights.
The Joseph Conrad Library was located at 25 South Street and 15 State Street, SCI's headquarters from 1913-1967 and 1968-1985, respectively. A bust and portraits of Joseph Conrad are included. Of particular note is the presentation of the Conrad Collection to the Joseph Conrad Library by B. Anne Papantonio, Executive Vice President of the Johnson Reprint Corporation, on April 11, 1983. Also shown are Frank Huntington, SCI’s Director of Education; SCI librarians Bonnie Golightly and Bob Wolk; and maritime historian Frank Braynard.
Rev. Harold H. Kelley was director of SCI from 1934-1948. Rev. Kelly is seen with Bishop Charles Gilbert and Rev. Lawrence A. Harkness; with Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, the Archbishop of York Cyril F. Garbett, and president of the Board of Managers, Clarence G. Michalis, in 1946; at the launching of the MS Rio de la Plata in Chester (Pa.) in 1941; and possibly giving the invocation on the steps of the United States Sub treasury building for National Maritime Day in 1944.
Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield was Superintendent of SCI from 1898-1934. The dual celebration of Rev. Mansfield's 60th birthday and 35th anniversary as Superintendent, the Liberty Class 441’ freighter (named after him), memorial plaques and a portrait of Rev. Mansfield’s wife, Ella Louise Huntington Mansfield, are shown.
Richard was the eldest son of Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Mariner 15 Bar & Lounge at 15 State Street
John Masefield was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. Masefield is shown with his wife, Constance Crommelin, and with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield on the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse at 25 South Street on Jan. 4, 1933. Masefield is also seen at a benefit in his honor at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 9, 1933.
SCI doctors using the radio station KDKF in 1920 or 1921
Memorial Day services in Ocean View Cemetery on May 30, 1930, at Jeanette Park on May 30, 1932 (with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield placing a wreath on the bandstand) ,and on the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse at 25 South Street are shown.
SCI’s Merchant Marine School was formerly called New York School of Navigation and Navigation and Marine Engineering School
Clarence G. Michalis was a member of SCI’s Board of Managers from 1924-1969. Michalis served as President from 1932-1957 and as Chairman from 1958-1969.
The Missing Seamen Bureau was founded in 1919 by Janet L. Roper and the Religious and Social Work Department to help families and friends locate missing seafarers. Miriam Goetz is featured.
This exhibit was used for advertising SCI’s Modernization Fund. Clarence G. Michalis, President of SCI’s Board of Managers, is also shown speaking at the final report meeting of the Modernization Fund on Jan. 8, 1945.
Rev. John M. Mulligan was Director of SCI from 1960-1977. In addition to portraits, Rev. Mulligan is shown receiving identification as New Protestant Chaplain of the Port of New York on April 8, 1965 and at Bard College’s Commencement Weekend on June 15-16, 1968.
A 1950 Mobile, Ala. meeting of the National Council of Seamen's Agencies (later North American Maritime Ministry Association) and an overhead crowd shot taken aboard a ship in 1953 are shown.
Aerial and Landscape Views of New York City
SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street and 15 State Street can be seen in some of these photographs.
The New York Port Society was founded in 1818 by merchants and shipbuilders to promote Christianity among merchant mariners.
North River Station (with Church of the Holy Comforter)
North River Station was operated by SCI from 1888-1923.
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The first Operation Sail event, a tie-in with the New York World's Fair, brought tall ships from around the world to New York Harbor for a grand parade of sail up the Hudson.
Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker was SCI's first missionary. Rev. Parker worked with SCI from 1843-1859.
Seafarers Center at the 92 North River Piers Passenger Ship Terminal
the Seafarers Center at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal, 92 North River Piers, New York (N.Y.) The center was opened by SCI and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the mid-1980s to provide mariners with the means to telephone home
John H. G. Pell began serving on SCI's Board of Managers in 1936.
Pictured is a tent service on Pier 5, close to the Coenties Slip Station. The Coenties Slip Station was largely planned as an outdoor establishment, and as such church services were held outside underneath a tent.
Aerial Views of Port Newark (Port Authority)
Aerial views of facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Facilities shown are: Howland Hook Marine Terminal, Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal, and Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Termin
Port Newark Station was built in the 1960s by the Weny Bros & Storms Co. The original building, opened on July 17,1961, the second building, opened at the end of 1965. A photograph shows James C. Kellogg III and W. Lawrence Mc Lane at the lease signing ceremony for the Port Newark Station. Also shown is the sport field of Seaman’s Church Institute, ground being broken for new buildings, and a renovation project in the early to late 1990s.
Rev. Jean R. Smith, Director of Center for Seafarers’ Services, is shown in conversation with various individuals. Chefs in the kitchen of the restaurant preparing meals, and merchant marines enjoying their leisure time are also shown. The black and white photographs are from 1993, and colored photographs are from 2001-2004. One photograph shows a 9/11 memorial (with a portion of a destroyed building) displayed at Port Newark.
Port Newark Seafarer's Center Open House
Soccer Games at Port Newark Seafarer's Center Sports Field
Black and white photos from the 1960s show construction, events, the building at Port Newark Station in New Jersey, the lease signing ceremony at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on April 18, 1960 and the dedication ceremony on October 7, 1960. Clarence G. Michalis, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Franklin E. Vilas, Revs. Roscoe T. Foust and John M. Mulligan, along with Clarence G. Michalis and Franklin E. Vilas, are also included. Color photos date from late 1970s to 1989. Mariners and SCI employees are shown relaxing and socializing. Chapel services, International Sports Week in September 1974, “Salute to the Volunteers” party on March 8, 1983, dances, the 1989 Christmas party, and Rev. James R. Whittemore are shown
Events at the Propeller Club included the 22nd annual dinner held on May 20, 1944 with Rev. Harold H. Kelley and the 31st annual dinner held on May 22, 1953 with Rev. Raymond S. Hall.
Rev. Smythe Pyne was SCI’s first president and founding member of the Board of Managers in 1843.
British refugee children were invited to SCI by Rev. Harold H. Kelley in September 1940.
Franklin D. Roosevelt served on SCI’s Board of Managers from 1908 until his death in 1945.
Janet Roper was SCI's House Mother from 1915 until her death in 1943. Also shown are Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Edith Baxter, and two envelopes addressed to Roper.
The Rudder Club hosted dinners and parties. Rev. Raymond S. Hall is shown in many photos.
The Sailors' Home was operated by SCI from 1894-1907.
Sailors' Snug Harbor was a home for elderly sailors located in Staten Island (N.Y.)
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A variety of images are shown here, including a group of shipwrecked seafarers sitting in the auditorium at 25 South Street during World War I; American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS) members singing to seamen in the Seamen’s Lounge at 25 South Street in 1943; broadcast of the poetry contest “Between the Bookends” in February 1945, with a seaman winning third prize; Radio operator Ken Quee speaking with mariner Manuel Benitez on the rooftop of 25 South Street in 1955; a 1964 portrait of Seaman of the Month David Frey; female “Sea Venture” crew members attending an orientation at 15 State Street prior to sailing in 1974; two crew members looking out of the Turkish goodwill ship Tarsus in the port of Miami (Fla.); a portrait of Count Felix von Luckner; Capt. John Wilson with a dog on a boat; portrait of seaman Charles Leroy McCleary; and a portrait of seafarer Jim Fowler with a falcon.
The Sentinel was purchased by SCI in 1902 to visit ships and bring merchant mariners to and from the institute for religious services and recreation. Views of the yacht in the harbor and moored next to the Floating Church of Our Saviour, as well as detailed shots of the services it provided to merchant mariners are shown. Herbert L. Satterlee, member of the Board of Managers, can also be seen on the Sentinel in 1906.
The tugboat “Thomas Tracy”, built by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company for Tracy Towing Lines.
SCI employees and chaplains visited ships provide reading and recreation material as well as information about SCI services. Capt. Jorgen U. Bjorge is also shown.
Rev. Harold H. Kelley and Janet Roper are shown looking at ship models with the Shipcraft Guild. John Forsythe and Klaus Kreuger admire model (July-August 1962)
The Sir Galahad memorial was given to SCI in 1927 by I. J. Merritt in memory of his father. Pictured are drawings that may be inspiration for the original design, the memorial’s dedication ceremony, a close-up of the plaque, views of the memorial on the building at 25 South Street, Edmund L. Baylies, and Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield. The figurehead is now at the Seafarer's Center in Port Newark, New Jersey.
The Society for Seamen's Children was founded in 1846 and operated foster care facilities for children of mariners at Marshall Cottage in Staten Island, NY. The society became affiliated with SCI in 1937.
25 South Street Soda Fountain and Luncheonette
The Dayton-Hudson Corporation organized a three-day-long flower show on Wall Street in 1969. Proceeds from the event went to SCI.
Luncheons, including the New York Board of Trade's annual Tradition of the Sea award (photos from May 18, 1960 show the award being presented presented to Capt. Sven E. Roos with Franklin E. Vilas). is represented under this subject. Revs. Roscoe T. Foust and John M. Mulligan are shown at various luncheons.
1971 National Maritime Day activities included Rev. John M. Mulligan giving a speech. Also included is a program at Castle Clinton in New York (N. Y.) on May 22, 1970.
Rev. John M. Mulligan is shown with SCI soccer teams.
International Seamen's Club 15th Anniversary
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Concert
Included the US government centennial in 1889, a Thanksgiving dinner at 25 South Street in 1963; a concert with pianist Willard MacGregor on March 16, 1975; and a Chinese Christmas party in 1975, as well as other events organized or attended by SCI staff. Some of the people featured in the photographs include the author Harper Lee, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
25 South Street Department of Special Services
This department included the Missing Seamen's Bureau, the Women's Council, and Ship Visitation. R
15 State Street Department of Special Services
This department included the Missing Seamen's Bureau, the Women's Council, and Ship Visitation.
Liberty Ship Janet Lord Roper Ship Christening Ceremony
The SS Janet Lord Roper in Fairfield (Md.) ship christening was attended by Roper's daughter Marion and Rev. Harold H. Kelley.
Edward Thompson Taylor (1793-1871), known as "Father Taylor" became the missionary in charge of the Seamen's Bethel in Boston (Mass.) in 1830.
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A time ball (not from the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse) and exhibit page about time balls produced by the United States Navy
The lighthouse was built in honor of the crew of the Titanic steamship that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. In addition to views of the lighthouse, memorial plaque, and time ball, photos includes a dedication ceremony on April 15, 1913 with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield; the 50th anniversary memorial service held on April 15, 1962 with Rev. John M. Mulligan; Titanic survivors looking at a painting of the steamship by W. Muller; and installation of the memorial at the South Street Seaport, following the demolition of 25 South Street in 1968.
The United States Coast Guard is seen visiting and training at 25 South Street, SCI's headquarters from 1913-1967, as well as receiving Christmas at Sea packages in 1971. The following USCG officers are included: Ens. William Berssenbrugge; Lt. John B. Holmes; Ltjg. Archibald Alexander; Ens. Thomas B. Taylor; Ltjg. Robert B. English; Ens. Edward Everett Dickinson, III; Ens. Harold H. Gaillard; Lcdr. Frederick A. Just; Lt. Dale D. Harrison; Ens. Hartwig Baruch, Jr.; Ens. Edgar Halberstadt; Ltjg. Roland D. Harrison; Ens. Frederick H. Ellis; Ltjg. Eugene Pfitzpatrick; and Lt. William Radewald, Jr. Rev. Harold H. Kelley is also shown.
United States Public Health Services Hospital
Photos include a makeshift chapel decorated for Christmas in 1922 and a chaplain visiting a patient.
Among the visitors are documentary filmmakers, Rep. John Lindsay speaking for Adult Education in 1962, Bob Ryan for WNBC’s “City of Ships” in 1964, members of the Women’s Propeller Club in 1964, and author Harper Lee in October 1974. Franklin E. Vilas is also shown.
Edmund F. Wagner began serving as Chairman of the Board for the Seamen's Bank for Savings in 1959.
Rev. Robert J. Walker was chaplain of the Floating Church of Our Saviour from 1872-1890.
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Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse was a clerical vice-president of SCI from 1844-1851.
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Thomas P. Whittaker served on the Board of Managers from 1868 - 1915.
Marshall Orme Wilson Jr. (November 13, 1885 – February 13, 1966) began serving on the Board of Managers in 1910. The February 1961 issue of The Lookout noted his 50 years of board service.
Street of Ships Exhibit (Woldemar Neufeld)
The Women's Council organized benefit luncheons, the Christmas at Sea program, ship visits, spring plant sales. Many of these events, including the council's 40th anniversary on January 30, 1963, are depicted. Grace T. Chapman, Rev. Roscoe T. Foust, Rev. Joseph D. Huntley, Rev. John M. Mulligan, Augusta Morris de Peyster, Rebekah Shipler, Leslie C. Westerman, Franklin E. Vilas, and Barbara Love are present in these photographs.
Example Census Record - 52 Market Street, 1900
Working on barges alongside his family transporting war materials as a 10 year old during WWII
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Day-to-day work on the barge: cooking, deck work, engine room work, loading and unloading coal, washing down the deck
Waiting for a tug, painting the barge gray, dim-out during wartime
Trading coal dust for food, pigeon stew, rationing
Shipping from Norfolk, VA to New England, transporting different cargo
Port of New York, buying groceries in Red Hook
Threat of submarines from Norfolk to New York
Death of his brother Billy, his tug MENOMINEE sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Virginia in March 1942, survivors picked up by NOTHERN SUN
Effort to track down records of women and children on coastwise tugs, attempt to get Congress to recognize barge seamen as veterans
Difficulty in getting access to records from the National Maritime Center
Lack of awareness about the merchant marine, barge seamen
History of barge vessels and barge companies
Work with the National Archives to get recognition for women who worked on barges
95202 and the merchant marine's fight for recognition as veterans
His mother and sister's attempt to get sea papers in New York in 1942
Enters Merchant Marine in March 1943; Training at Sheepshead Bay
Childhood and youth; BERKSHIRE carrying coal coastwise
Sinking of the LEMUEL BURROWS in New York Harbor
At “coffin corner” in convoy from England, passes torpedoed crew from ship ahead of them in line
M AND J TRACY in October 1943, coastwise laker carrying coal
ALFRED MOORE in January 1944, liberty ship to North Africa carrying cargo, sails as boatswain
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey
At Italian port loading ships with troops for the front lines
EXCHESTER in June 1944, Hog Islander to Cuba for sugar; problems with lice
Takes job on the ACHILLES, coastwise coal ship, misses D-Day
WINFRED L SMITH in September of 1944, decision to stay on for the Murmansk run
Assembling the convoy in Scotland, leaves from Iceland with well equipped escort
Turns 21 onboard ship in Russia; captive stevedores load and unload ship, interaction with the Russians
Unloading narrow-gauge locomotives with supplies to Leningrad
Journey back, attacked by planes; gets off ship in Portland, Maine
Gets a job on ROBERT L VANN, a liberty ship, with friend at the union hall in New York
Sent through the Channel to Antwerp on the Skell River, hits a mine on the way back
Moments on the ship before the mine hit, moment when the mine hit
Abandoning ship, releasing the life boats
Brought to shore at Ostend, Belgium, brought to British Army Depot
Brought the England on ferry boat, meets up with Captain at hotel, no men were lost
Brought back to U.S. onboard the MANHATTAN along with six other torpedoed crews
Transported form Norfolk, Va. to New York locked in railroad cars
Paid off in lower Manhattan, given discharge papers
Time in New York, training at cram school on Whitehall Street
Passes 3rd Mate’s exam in Providence, R.I.
CACIQUE in May 1945, freighter to South America as Jr. 3rd Mate
Hears about the War ending at sea, turns on deck lights
On his first voyage, picking up troops for the pending invasion of Japan
Hearing about the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan while at sea
Hearing about the end of the War in a French port
Sinking of the freighter EXANTHIA in 1947
Employment with the Seamen’s Church Institute
Growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City
Returning to Germany in 1947, Japan in 1946
In Nagasaki five years after the War, Mayor greets his ship
Being a picket line captain on strike in San Francisco in 1946
Membership with National Maritime Union and the fight for worker's rights
Navigating the submarine net in New York Harbor from Coney Island to Hoffman Island
February 1943, attempts to join Marines at age 15, foiled by his aunt
April 1943, leaves school for New York City, attempts to get his seamen’s papers
Goes to Detroit and gets a job as a porter on a Great Lakes paddle wheeler passenger ship
22, Experience getting a ship in New York, witnesses the accidental shooting of a shipmate, removed from a Murmansk-bound shop to serve as witness
Gets on a ship and leaves in convoy from Norfolk, Va. to the Persian Gulf
Assisting the Navy gun crews in handling the artillery shells
Discharging cargo in Khorrammshahr, Iran for the Russian army, 17th birthday
Engine breaks down while waiting for convoy at Strait of Hormuz, goes to Port Sudan, returns to Norfolk, Va.
Torpedoed vessels, rumors about joining the invasion in Italy
Takes a job on a Hog Islander to South America, backs out because there was no action down there
Takes a job on a tanker to and from Aruba
Takes a job on a liberty ship, loads a Cadillac limousine for delivery in Normandy
Sees the V-1 rockets, “buzz bombs,” over the Thames in London
Half the crew given shore leave at Southampton, ordered to go to Utah beachhead at Normandy with the remaining half of the crew
Anchors at Normandy, unloads the limousine for Eisenhower
Gets shore leave at Cherbourg and meets up with other half of the crew
Discharges rest of cargo at Liverpool, loads Coast Guard patrol boats and returns to New York with Coast Guard crews who had participated in D-Day
Takes jobs on tankers to London, Venezuela
Takes job on troopship Edwin B. Alexander, army transport in July 1945, brings back Women’s Army Corps
Brings back 4,440 GIs from La Havre to New York
Sharing sleeping quarters with GIs, celebratory mood of the voyage home
In New York and Times Square when the War ends
Loads cargo of Wyoming horses in Houston, Tx.
Transporting supplies to Europe after the end of the War
Post-War Germany, bells on the docks and submarine parts
Sailing to Korea and Japan before the Korean War starts
Drafted in 1952 at age 27, joins the army
Sails on a ship in 1951 with radio equipment from Norfolk, Va. to Northern Greenland to supply a Cold War radar station
Barge communities tied up alongside each other in port
Growing up in Trinidad; coming to the U.S. as a war bride in 1949
Meeting her husband at a military base in Trinidad
Work as a receptionist at a studio in Port-Au-Spain, Trinidad
Coming to the U.S. in 1949; leaving Trinidad while pregnant
Moving to England with her husband, who was transferred; having him transferred to Germany; returning to the U.S.; death of her husband
Children return to Trinidad; taking domestic work in New Jersey
Coming from England to D.C.; birth of her son
Description of the union halls in New York City
Seeing the workers on deck on the ship from Trinidad to the U.S.
Her first job on the SS United States in tourist class; description of the work
Rules for conduct on the ship for the crew
Multiple voyages on the SS United States from 1965-1969 as a relief worker in different classes; work with other shipping companies
The Conservatory of New York’s work with the SS United States today; the ship’s current condition
Taking jobs on ships going to England to see relatives
Women working at sea; clothing inspections
New York ports compared with other ports around the world
Carrying ammunition to Korea on SS Export Courier
Beginning of career at sea, training on the JOHN W. BROWN 1954-1956
Classes at the National Maritime Union (NMU) and the JOHN W. BROWN
Keeping watch as a spiritual experience, sailing in fog
Racism on ships, getting along with other seamen, officers; Fight with an officer
Supplying the Navy during times of conflict
Head injury at sea, struggle for compensation benefits
Growing up in New York City wanting to sail
Difference between a government career and a union career
Relationship with Navy personnel on board
Work schedule, communication with family back home
The American Merchant Marine Veterans Association
Stowaway on a ship from Puerto Rico to the mainland
Attempts to become a seaman at 14 years old, fails to get his papers
Joins the Civil Conservation Corp., works on a project in the Utah desert
Joins the Navy, places on a LST training ship, gets injured and receives honorable discharge
Thoughts on health, medicine, and history
Being a stowaway, catching rides on trains, cars, and trolleys
Sailing with the Merchant Marine during World War II; Sailing on the liberty ship W.P. FEW, delivering supplies in the Pacific
The atom bomb and the end of the war, dumping cargo overboard
Registers with the Seafarers International Union (SIU), sails through the Panama Canal
Switches from the SIU to the National Maritime Union (NMU), sails in Asia during peace time
Sailing in the Pacific, the threat of Japanese submarines
Forming a committee to challenge the leadership of the NMU
Violence at NMU meetings, fight with Joseph Curran’s son
Sails with the Military Sealift Command, gets a permanent position in 1964-64, gets his book from the National Maritime Union (NMU)
Different jobs on ships, training at the NMU
Different Seamen’s Church Institutes around the world (Germany, Korea, San Francisco)
Coming to the mainland from Puerto Rico in 1948
Sailing on the SS AMERICAN EAGLE, a tanker that suffered an explosion on 1984 February 26 in the Gulf of Mexico
Hearing the explosion while in the shower, abandoning ship
Waiting to be rescued in the water, thoughts on lives lost
Picked up and brought to an oil rig near New Orleans before returning to New York
Works at the Brooklyn docks in 1963 as a carpenter and lasher
Joins the Local 1 Checkers and Clerks union and works at Port Newark in the 1990s
Moving cargo in the Port during Desert Storm
Scanning freight with the Geiger counter
The change from old cargo-moving techniques to containerization
The International Longshoremen’s Association and similarities to the film “On the Waterfront”
The new Seamen’s Church building in Port Newark
Moving cargo pre-containerization in the 1960s
Waterfront Commission’s regulation of the hiring halls
RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations laws)
Quality of career, gains made by the ILA and because of automation
Today’s globalized, automated economy, and the importance of distribution
Training for steward department at Sheepshead Bay in 1945, staying at the maritime pool in midtown Manhattan
End of the war, bringing troops back the the U.S.
Sailing as a gunner's messboy in the Pacific, Yokahama, trouble unloading cargo post-war
Gets entry-level rating in engine room, ships out for North Atlantic to Bremerhaven, decides to sail in the Caribbean
In port with supplies ready for invasion of Japan, learns about the surrender of Japan, shore leave for Navy Gunners in Seattle
With high school education, gets designated to track inventory
Promoted to Oiler, works for United Fruit Company and the Cuban Mail Company to Central and South America, gets ratings at Sheepshead Bay
Port cities in Central and South America, the Merchant Marine Library Association
Keeping watch in port, schedule and free time in port, restrictions in certain ports
Shore leave in foreign ports, Bremerhaven in 1946
1950 works as Oiler on the Staten Island Ferry, drafted into Korean War, stationed in Germany for 18 months
Difference between landlocked jobs and life at sea
Returns to NYC to work for Department of Public Works on “sludge boats” from 1952-1977, description of sludge boats and sewage plants
Description of New York City water and sewage system, process of treating sewage
Description of working life on the sludge boats, gets Engineer's and Chief Engineer's licenses
Operating the sludge boats, working culture on the sludge boats
Goes to work for the Coast Guard ferry to Governor's Island, description of Governor's Island
Typical workday on the ferry to Governor's Island
Difference between blue water trips and offshore of river trips with sludge boats and ferries, effects on family
Volunteering at the South Street Seaport Museum and the Kings Point American Merchant Marine Museum
Getting involved with the American Merchant Mariners Veterans Association and the South Street Seaport Museum
Interesting sights and stories on the sludge boats and ferries
Sense of community with the crew on the sludge boats
Joins US Navy in 1960; works shore side jobs, including for the International Trade Organization in NYC
Gets his Z card and joins the National Maritime Union. Sails as Ordinary Seaman, then Acting AB, then AB
Takes the 3rd Mate’s exam and studies celestial navigation. Sails as Boswain and gets 2nd Mate’s License via the Seamen’s Church Institute Navigation School
Sails on the CV LIGHTNING, one of the first container ships. Discusses the CV SEA WITCH, which sank at the pier
Sails as Mate. Discusses using the sextant to conduct celestial navigation
Taking measurements with the sextant in cloud cover
Given a sextant by Seamen’s Church when the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library closed. Takes classes at the FDR Institute at 15 State Street
Sails on 4 different ships during the First Gulf War, from Desert Shield to Desert Storm. Transported dud missiles back to the States from the Middle East. Transported cargo for combat from the U.S. to the Middle East
Stationed at the piers in South Vietnam during the War
Shot at while traveling upriver in Vietnam. US Army claims the bullet holes were from World War II, denies the crew compensation
Sails on the BIDDEFORD VICTORY. Travels to Naples, Italy in 1969
Thoughts on post-Reagan American Merchant Marine. State of the industry today
Closing thoughts on education, training, and experience in the Merchant Marine
Crew on the sludge boats, status of the jobs
Ships out with a friend on the Murmansk Run (1943 or 44), from Scotland
Picks up a convoy of about 100 ships and an aircraft carrier under threat from the TIRPITZ (sister ship of BISMARCK), past Bear Island to Murmansk
Cutting through the ice in the White Sea, gets frozen-in and waits for an ice-breaker
Unloading tanks in Bacaritsa and dealing with Russian customs; a crane collapse
Going ashore in Bacaritsa; going to the intourist place in town; cutting off heat on the ship to conserve fuel
Interacting with the local Russians; is invited into a Russian home
Walking across the ice to Arkhangelsk; finds an in-tourist for Russian officers, contrast with local poverty
Two Russian crewmembers welcomed in Russia, disappeared once they got to Russia
Gets harassed by a group of Russian soldiers
Finishes unloading, picks up convoy near Murmansk; ships lost on the way back home
Tries to ship back out, called into Naval Intelligence and questioned about group of Russians who harassed him back near Arkhangelsk
Decision to join the merchant marine at 17 years old; taking the train from Missouri to New York City
Impressions of New York City, Times Square; training at Sheepshead Bay
Relationship to the AMMV; monument in Lakeway, Texas
Getting his Third Mate's license after the War; decision to leave the merchant marine for a career in accounting
Buzz bombs in Antwerp during the Battle of the Bulge
Takes a train with some friends to Brussels, caught by some M.P.s at a bar, sent back to Antwerp
Hears explosions of V-2 rockets while leaving Brussels
In Japan one month after V-J Day; builds an improvised boat to get ashore in Tokyo Bay, nearly sinks, rescued by Japanese fishermen
Explores post-war Tokyo, other Japanese towns
Parents immigrants from Poland, family; first ship Lawrence D. Tyson March 6, 1944, signed articles March 9, 1944; pension
Political life, history of involvement with the Communist party, brought to testify before HUAC
Career as a designer for a radio paging company in NYC
Seamen's papers confiscated by the FBI, returned to sea in 1951 as a radio operator
Received security clearance to sail on MV CAPE TEXAS in 1991, sailed until 2011
Discusses decision to join merchant marine in 1944 as an 18-year-old, Samuel Gompers Vocational High School, received his commercial radio license at PS 20: Maritime Training School
Drafted, but rejected based on his eyesight; discusses desire to be involved in the war effort
Receives combat bar on first voyage in the Mediterranean during March 1944; manning the radio during an attack on his convoy
First foreign port in Sicily carrying vehicles and ammunition, and German missiles back to the U.S. after the War
Sails on the MV CAPE TEXAS during Operation Iraqi Freedom, attempts to unload cargo in Turkey but are turned away; unloading cargo in Kuwait during fighting
Ship Marine Snapper transporting refugees from Korea in the 1950s
Sailing during Iraqi Freedom; being the oldest guy on the ship; keeping radio silence during the War and a near collision
Typical shift in the radio room, and standing watch
On the Keystoner; responding to a distress call from a tug boat on fire near the Panama Canal, picks up survivors and brings them into San Francisco
Growing up in Brooklyn, NY; working as a projectionist at the New Amsterdam theater on 42nd Street
Radical politics at sea and along the NYC waterfront; Communist leaders of the maritime affiliate of the American Communications Association, later the American Radio Association
Political career, opposition to Free Trade Agreement and outsourcing; temporary work in NYC garment district, runs for Congress in Florida as an Independent Socialist
Growing up in Missouri with his four brothers; his father's store
Graduates high school and takes a job waiting tables on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River; hears advertisements to join the merchant marine, decides to join and is confident that FDR will grant merchant marine GI Bill rights
St. Louis to Sheepshead Bay, and five weeks of training on Chesapeake Bay; decides to work in the engine department
Reasons why he joined the merchant marine as opposed to the Navy (4:17, “sinking in NY Harbor”)
Finishes training and is sent out to San Francisco to wait for a ship; sent up to Port of Chicago (north of SF), nearly misses a fatal explosion (Port of Chicago disaster) from unloading dangerous cargo
Shipping small reconnaissance aircraft from Long Beach, CA to Brisbane, Australia on the Liberty SS FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR;; sails as Wiper in the Engine Room, reads about the invasion of Normandy on the same day his ship arrives in Australia
Transferring explosive cargo from a wrecked ship in Brisbane to New Guinea and various island ports
On Island (beyond New Guinea), explores the island with deckhand friend, horsing around with grenades and smoke bombs they found in an army dump
On island off New Guinea, deep harbor with a floating dock, incident with bombs falling off his truck
Picks up artillery cargo from Sidney, then to Hilandia? where the harbor was full with ships preparing for the invasion of the Phillippinnes
Back to San Francisco, pays off on January 4, 1945 and ships out from New York City on the troop ship Mariposa, gets his camera confiscated and is interrogated as a suspected spy
Liverpool and Cherbourg first voyage; Algiers and Naples, second voyage; Marseilles and Naples, third voyage; Cherbourg and Le Havre, fourth voyage
Just misses his oldest brother, enlisted in the Army Air Force, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Le Havre; returns home to visit his family; difficulty of communicating with his family during wartime
Liberty ship Robert E. Perry ships coal to Liverpool when the bombs drop on Japan; goes on a date with some local girls in Liverpool, walks home in the middle of V-J celebrations. (July-August)
Recalls showing his wife the Engine Room of the John Brown in Baltimore, MD
Robert E. Perry was the fastest Liberty ship ever built (4 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes); discusses the hasty construction of Liberty ships
From Staten Island to Yokohama, picks up 19 troops and brings them home to San Francisco, leaves on New Year's Eve back to Staten Island
Sailed on the Liberty Ship William M. Stewart (Oiler as opposed to fireman/watertender), ships coal to Montevideo, Uruguay, then picks up wheat from Argentina; Chief Engineer passes away and body examined for foul play in Portugal en route to Belgium (Lend-Lease program)
Oren N. Roberts, ships coal from Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Denmark, back through Le Havre (Fall 1946); seamen go on strike in the U.S. so ship sent down St. Lawrence seaway to pick up wheat from Montreal, shipped to Glasgow, Scotland; pays off in Galveston, Texas November 27, 1946
Life after the merchant marine: education as a linotype operator; career in a printing offices; lay offs due to technology (cold type to hot type); career as a wedding photographer; retires in 1993
Decision to leave the merchant marine: lack of desire to make a career at sea
Traveling with his wife during retirement
Born in Brooklyn in 1926, joining maritime service in 1944 after being rejected from armed services, training at Sheepshead Bay and as a radio operator on Hoffman Island
Takes exam for 2nd class radio telegraph license, waits for an assignment at the maritime pool, radio operators unions
Training at Hoffman Island, learning Morse code
Decision to join the merchant marine, testing into radio operator training at Hoffman Island
Choosing to go to London on the liberty Samuel Griffin, experience being rejected from the armed forces
Desperation to get involved in the war, watching New York Harbor from his office on Wall Street
High school at Erasmus Hall, looking for classmates at Normandy Beach Cemetery
First voyage on the liberty Samuel Griffin to Savannah, GA, loaded prefabricated houses for displaced residents in England, sails to Tilbury Dock in London in 1945
V-1 and V-2 rockets in London, food rationing, delivering pre-fabricated houses
Loading 700 American troops in London, some scheduled to travel on to the West Coast for launch of the invasion of Japan, learning en route about the atomic bomb drop on Japan
Interacting with U.S. Army officers, returning to New York City, loading recovery cargo for Europe in Newport News, VA, sails to Naples, Italy, sings “Isle of Capri”
Shore leave in Italy, transporting whiskey
Typical workday as a radio operator, receiving a message about the birth of his daughter
Sails on the liberty SS Thomas J. Jarvis in 1945-1946 to Cherbourg, France, unloads coal by bucket
Sailing as a lone operator, sending and receiving messages
Loading coal in Galveston, Texas, sails for England, receiving a message from shore
Sailing to Antwerp then back to New York City
Working for Socony Vacuum on oil tanker ships along the East Coast and South America, receives radar training at Sheepshead Bay
Decision to stop going to sea and to start a family, gets drafted on technicality into the U.S. Army, teaching and working at sea during the summers
Thoughts on exclusion from the GI Bill, thoughts on the sea
Started sailing at 17 years old in 1944, turned down by the Navy in 1943 because of eyesight; training at Catalina Island, attends Cook and Baker school
Coastwise trip from San Francisco to Puget Sound
Liberty ship GEORGE M. PULLMAN to Saipan in August 1944; trip to Guam; explosive cargo
Typical nightshift making bread and breakfasts
Postwar Victory ship to Okinawa in the middle of a typhoon, anchored in Buckner Bay unable to offload cargo, ship offloaded by Japanese prisoners of war, interacting with the Japanese prisoners of war
Sailing out of northwestern port towns, Juneau, Alaska; losing a man overboard
Stops sailing in 1946, goes to Alaska to work for cost-plus companies; career as a policeman
Getting called to the 20mm deck gun to standby as second loader to Navy gunner
Spots a flare gun in the middle of the night
First trip to Saipan, friend goes ashore and gets in the middle of a firefight; exploring the Saipan jungle, finding burial site
Hospital ship in the Pacific hit by kamikaze planes
Effort to get retroactive benefits for the AMMV, meeting with Senator Harry Reid's staff
Picking up the mail in Okinawa in the middle of a typhoon
Witnessing a lifeboat unhook from a ship and crash
Waiting to get home, interaction with U.S. soldiers waiting to get home; swimming and fishing
Education at Fort Schuyler, decision to pursue a career in the maritime industry
Coursework at Fort Schuyler, decision to pursue Deck Department, going to sea during summers, exploring port cities in Europe
Graduating and entering the job market, first voyage on a grain ship, unloading grain in Croatia, first paycheck
Sailing on American ships, losing a job in 2008 during the market collapse, taking jobs on oceanographic survey ships
Working for Maersk on varying contracts, decision to take a job on land, comparable experiences of classmates at Fort Schuyler
Current work with Vanuatu Maritime Services in New York City registering ships under the Vanuatu flag, ensuring vessels comply with International Maritime Organization regulations, complying with the Maritime Labor Convention 2006
Difference in sailing with new regulations and technology on ships, disconnect between seafarers and international organizations, thoughts on international maritime standards
History of international maritime standards
State of American merchant shipping, competition from foreign markets, negative impact of the Jones Act
Foreign-built ships and outsourced labor
Pressure to comply with MLC2006 in foreign ports, decision for Vanuatu ships to comply, thoughts on why the U.S. has not signed
Staying at Seamen’s Church Institute, services provided; experiences in New York City
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Creation of the Coast Guard rescue swimmers program; speaking to the Coast Guard, witnessing rescue swimmer drills
Importance of safety training; speaking in front of Congress, industry reforms regarding survival suits and decommissioning WWII-era ships; sinkings of other WWII era ships
Psychological impact, health problems after the sinking; reaction of family to news that he survived
Family history; professional history at sea; work as Chief Mate on VLCC tankers
Fate of Phil Corl, Captain of MARINE ELECTRIC; bodies recovered; keeping memory alive with his daughter
Labor disputes during the Reagan administration; work teaching at a vocational school
Health problems after his rescue; returning to work after vacation with Keystone Shipping on the ENERGY INDEPENDENCE on same route as MARINE ELECTRIC
Results of investigation into the sinking; fines against Marine Transport Lines, lack of resolution with Marine Transport Lines
Story of the second survivor, Bob Cusick; what happened to the other two survivors after the accident; stories of deceased seamen and their families
Coast Guard helicopter runs out of fuel, spots one more survivor; helicopter picks up third survivor
Making a grab for the Coast Guard’s rescue basket; process of Coast Guard’s response, involvement of Navy rescue swimmer; being raised into the helicopter with second survivor
Coast Guard helicopter flies over, returns and hovers overhead; signaling the Coast Guard with a flashlight
Uncontrollable shivering, urinating to keep warm; prospects for rescue; seeing strobe lights of other life jackets
Alone in the water; bumping into five other survivors clinging to a life ring; buckling life jackets to the life ring; deaths by hypothermia
Death of engineers; fear that the propellers were still moving in the water; sound of the storm and explosions; pitch blackness, flotsam and jetsam; ingesting oil in the water
Man overboard; ship capsizing before life boats were launched; falling overboard and seeing the smokestack crashing down next to him, a mysterious hand saves him; death of his grandfather twenty years prior
Listing to starboard, starting to roll over; blowing the whistle to abandon ship; falling down a flight of stairs, throwing life rings; lowering the life boats
Tripping the iPRO distress beacon; preparing life vests and life boats; heroic action of shipmate
Watching from the bridge as water flooded over the bow; Captain’s orders to abandon ship; gathering equipment, preparing to abandon ship
Seas coming over the bow; problems with the ship’s pumps; Captain’s communications with the Coast Guard
Seas coming up over the stern; keeping watch at 8pm; woken up at 0100 and summoned to the bridge
Rolling in thirty-five to forty foot seas, heading for deeper water; National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the SS MARINE ELECTRIC’s sinking
Loading the ship in Norfolk on February 9; leaving harbor in a moderate storm, worsening of the storm; distress signal from fishing vessel THEODORA, rescue by the Coast Guard
Third officer on SS MARINE ELECTRIC; events leading up to the accident that determined life or death
Childhood in Boston; entrance into Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1971; first trip through the Panama Canal; joining Masters, Mates and Pilots; work on tankers; work on SS MARINE ELECTRIC
Childhood in Massachusetts, family; entrance into Massachusetts Nautical School, training on school ship, graduation in 1940
First job as fourth mate with American Hawaiian Lines; trip in July 1941 from New York City with war material to Port Sudan on Arkansan; in port at Cairo when Germans bomb the port
Trip on the liberty ship Samuel Chase as third mate; description of construction process for liberty ships; loads cargo of dynamite in Baltimore, MD; apprehensions about the war, comfort in spirituality
Reaches Reykjavik, Iceland on June 1, 1942, sails in “coffin corner” of 37 ship convoy; attacked by German submarines, witnesses a torpedo nearly miss his ship, sink ship next to him; a second near miss
Under dive-bombing attack, ushered to secret port while surviving convoy proceeds to Archangel; picks up convoy to return to U.S., loss of ships in the night
Desolation at secret Russian port; reaction of communist crewmembers
Fate of the convoy, a ship that ran aground on ice who painted their ship white as camouflage
Delivering cargo; more ships lost to German submarines; return to New York from Belfast in October
Description of Naval armed guard; arming the guns with German planes overhead; description of miracles
Second trip out from New York City to Iran in January 1943, separates from the convoy to deliver cargo; witnesses explosion of Arthur Middleton, hit by torpedo while in port, 53 dead and 3 survivors
Cargo of gasoline and bombs; accident in which a bomb fell through the hold of the ship, misses convoy to New York City as a result
Trip from New York City to England on the SS Pennsylvanian as second mate in May 1943, replacing a life boat; salvaging damaged ships; sinking of Christopher Newport
Captain's illness; being on the bridge during attacks
Trips from New York to Liverpool, discussion of photographs, SS Pennsylvanian; sailing in waters with no submarines without knowing it; sailing without convoy
Description of work, description of work schedule
Instructions to strip SS Pennsylvanian for D-Day invasion to be used as a block ship; mistake of a chief mate
Experience as a Naval Reservist, decision to stay with the merchant marine; discussion of military service
Sailing from Glasgow to the beachhead at Normandy in late June 1944; adjacent ship hits a mine; keeping the ship at even keel; watching the deliberate sinking of the Pennsylvanian; taken ashore to a barracks for the night
Bused to a summer resort; celebratory mood of civilians in town; leaving for home on the SS Argentina from Southampton
Training on the USS Nantucket at the Massachusetts Nautical School; learning traditional navigation techniques
Dreams about time at sea, his interpretations as to their meaning
Incident in which the FBI inspected a liberty ship, confiscated documents
Thoughts on the Navy; description of clothing worn as a mariner; getting along with Naval gunners on ships
Celebrating V-E Day in Long Beach, CA; celebrating the New York City ticker tape parade from the ship; staying at the Seamen's Church Institute
Going back to sea in 1981; last voyage in 1985, incident with a sick passenger; delivering cargo to Egypt; retirement
State of the postwar American merchant marine; decision to take business courses at Columbia University; career after the merchant marine; work in marine industries and as a steamship agent; retirement in 1991
Public opinion against the merchant marine during and after the war
Returning to the United States Lines, first back of his crew; decision to go back to sea
Aided by a WSA administrator and fellow Massachusetts Nautical School alumnus; transported back to Long Island, NY and seamen's hotel in Manhattan in October, 1945
Waiting for an American troop transport plane in Singapore; smuggling food into camp
Inspections at the Sumatra camp; decision to delay evacuation of American prisoners; escaping the camp by truck and leaving for Singapore on an Australian plane
Completion of the Sumatra railway at the end of the war; interaction with Japanese at the end of the war
Leaves camp for Singapore railway construction job (10% loss of life); abuse of Japanese interpreters
Daily life in the prison camps; interaction with elder Dutch officers; learning Dutch
Prisoner of war in Java at British military prison camp; moved to former Dutch infantry barracks; conflict with Japanese camp Lieutenant; decision to volunteer for transfer
Experience onboard German raider; transferred to Uckermark to Java, handed over to Japanese
Reunions between German captors and Duffy in Germany
Drawings done while a prisoner; keeping busy while a prisoner; studying the German ship
28 days as a German prisoner; interrogated about European politics, personal background; likeability of captors
German raiders in the South Atlantic; leaving Cape Town without a convoy; running into a raider on the way to South America; sunk by a German Raider, 11 killed, surviving on a float, picked up by Germans; 47 prisoners (September 10, 1941)
Trip out to Persian Gulf on MS American Leader to Trinidad without convoy, then to Cape Town, Indian Ocean; loading rubber in Sri Lanka
Trip to the Persian Gulf; keeping charts on the Pacific trip
Coming into port at Los Angeles; taking on two passengers bound for Hawaii on special Navy orders weeks before Pearl Harbor; sailing for Australia without a convoy; dropping cargo in Australia; coming back to New York as one of the first ships back from the Pacific
Trip to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila; spotting an American submarine in the Pacific; benefits of his training
Took a job as an 8-12 watch officer with United States Lines in New York City on the MS American Leader; transition from a cadet to an officer
Start of World War II; training as officers in Caribbean; Summer '41 in Azores and the Caribbean; Graduation September 1941, expansion of the merchant marine
Childhood in Massachusetts, Newburyport, family, sea scouts; decision to leave town and enroll in Massachusetts Nautical School (Mass Maritime); failing physical exams at USCG and Navy; training on USS Nantucket
Misconceptions about the merchant marine
Graduation from Maine Maritime Academy in 1970, decision to pursue a career in the merchant marine; work on USNS ships at Thule, Greenland; difficulty finding permanent work
Work on station ships during the Vietnam War; work on ships in the Far East
Difficulty finding work, taking medical relief jobs; moving around, working in different industries; moving to different port towns, resistance from local unions
Moving up in grades, sailing as chief engineer with Sea-Land in 1977; transition to container boxes on T-3 tankers
Working alongside experienced seamen who had come up the hawspipe; experience on first voyage on USNS YUKON; confrontations with older shipmates
Asking Port Engineer at Sea-Land for a job as chief engineer, argument over age and experience; getting chief engineer’s license, getting a job with Sea-Land in Rotterdam
A port strike lays up the ship; sailing across Europe and the Middle East with a replacement crew; getting even with an old enemy
Working for Sea-Land on SL-7s; thoughts on Sea-Land
Sailing on the SS MARINE ELECTRIC before it sank; thoughts on changes in the industry, professionalization of crews
Working on different types of ships; thoughts on changes in crews, life at sea
Going into port in the old days; changes in shore leave, offloading cargo; changes in regulation, communication, management
Working for Maritime Overseas Corporation; sailing on a prepositioning ship carrying diesel fuel to Diego Garcia; waiting in port for six months at the Philippines
Firing crew who broke rules in port; working on the same ship for seventeen years
Story about a seaman who tried to bring a monkey onboard ship
Parties in different ports; feeling depth charges in the engine room during the Vietnam War; changes in regulating drug and alcohol use
Sailing on SL-7s, stress; attempting to get off the PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
Sailing through Valdez; sailing through a storm, losing power
Sun Oil Co.; accident in the engine room
Thoughts on retirement; transitioning to life shoreside; starting a business; philanthropy
Thoughts on common characteristics of seamen; thoughts on living history
Taking his wife on ship; passing along stories to children
Thoughts on maritime career; having a relationship with human resources; thoughts on young kids starting careers; thoughts on money
Making bets with the quality review worker in port
Changes in the maritime industry, technology, communication
Comradery between the maritime community at sea and shoreside
Keeping in touch with the maritime business, students, and friends
Scrapping fleet in the early ‘90s to compete with double hull ships; starting consulting business
Storm at Cape Horn; how to deal with a storm at sea
Spending time at port as opposed to out at sea, stopping at good ports as Captain; unloading grain, favorite ports
Keeping a record of every ship sailed on
Retiring from sailing in ’93, working as project manager at Maine Maritime Academy from ’96- ’11; going back to school for master’s program in international logistics management
Communication with outside world while at sea; vacation time spent with family
Inexperienced vs. experienced mates regarding assigned work, learning from watching others; manual ships; story about first watch and gyro compass failing
Current way of obtaining licenses; differences between maritime schooling and going straight to sea
Learning in school as compared to learning hands-on at sea
Bringing family on commercial ships, daughters loses luggage on Alaska trip
Obtains Captain’s license in 1970, new build ships; first Captain’s job
Obtaining a chief mate’s license; hauling jet fuel during the Vietnam War, missile trackers on ship
Childhood, schooling, attending Maine Maritime Academy ‘60-‘64; first job on oil tanker as third mate; license exams
Last voyages on older ships, struggling to adapt to modern standards
Retirement, work after the merchant marine; last ship, the RHODE ISLAND; thoughts about marriage and the merchant marine
Preparing the CALIFORNIA to run aground in India; sending mechanical parts back to Texaco
On the CALIFORNIA waiting in anchor in India to determine disposition of ship; sold to Indian dealer for scrap; dumping beef into the harbor and running aground on the beach; history of the ship
On the NORTH DAKOTA carrying raffinate in the Gulf of Mexico hits an oil rig and catches fire; abandoning ship, fighting the fire; towed back to Port Arthur, Texas and scrapped
Mother’s illness, moving back to Massachusetts; more office work at Key Highway Shipyard, and as port relief officer; other ships
Office work making calculations regarding updates made to the Texaco fleet in the wake of the OKLAHOMA sinking
Incidents on the OKLAHOMA; marriage in 1971 and traveling from west coast working on MONTANA and CONNECTICUT to Port Arthur, Texas
Graduates in summer 1970, looking for work; working as third engineer for Texaco OKLAHOMA; description of work; sinking of the ship
Sailing on training ship NANTUCKET to various ports; friend at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Crewmates on EXTAVIA; work as a cadet on EXTAVIA
Childhood in Massachusetts, family; enrollment at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1966; first work on dredging ship; work on EXTAVIA in 1967 to European ports
Closing thoughts; being away from family; life lessons
Sailing on a Navy sealift tanker, electrical fire onboard; USNS SANTA CLARA repossessed in San Francisco in 1986; Captain of the KATAHDIN at Moosehead Lake
Sailing on passenger ship as Captain, California heat; Palm Springs
American Export Lines sold to Farrell Lines; union issues; working on LNG ships, ARIES, working for Texaco as chief mate; Working for El Paso Marine
Second mate on “D-Ships”; sailing to Egypt on the EXPORT COURIER, forty days in Alexandria; EXPORT CHAMPION, tenth wedding anniversary at sea
American Export Lines, EXPORT BUILDER, sailing from New Orleans to Bangladesh; encountering reproductions of Columbus’ ships at sea; pet monkey
Sailing to India, LNG ships in 1976; training in the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Sailing in the North Sea, encountering sea ice outside of Leningrad; transporting farm tractors; laying the ship; a “flying saucer” in the Bermuda Triangle
Sailing on the BROOK as chief mate to Leningrad
Marine hospital in Staten Island, sailing on the EXPORT LEADER as third mate; Piraeus, Greece; playing golf with the Captain
Being on radar watch, iceberg; near-miss story
Sailing on the LIGHTNING; man overboard in storm at sea
Sailing on the ADMIRAL CALLAHAN, gas turbine engines; sailing on the EXPORT ADVENTURER
Muddy banks in Seville, Spain; drinking story
Sailing to Lipari Island; NYC longshoremen strike; job on EXCLESIOR, Venice; downtown Baltimore; watching movies in a submarine
Graduates from Maine Maritime Academy in 1968; first job with American Export Lines, first voyage on EXPORT BAY as third mate; chasing a submarine through the Mediterranean; sending a message in a bottle
Looking back on life and career; what the future will hold
Having an epiphany off the coast of Miami; retiring
Accident on the job; obtaining a Certificate of Inspection; resigning
Becoming a company man with American President Lines in 2009
Working on U.S. Navy oceanographic research vessels mapping the ocean floor; turning down the position of commander
Dealing with piracy, preparation against pirates at sea
Heading east, ports and shore leave; traveling on a grain ship to Bangladesh; piracy
Obtaining an unlimited chief mate's license; working and sailing on container ships, working for Sea-land and Central Gulf; transporting cars
Working and studying through the 1990s; Masters, Mates, and Pilots
Working in the midst of Desert Storm/Desert Shield; operating without official authorization or recognition from U.S. government
Mutiny on board, the day before the war; drilling for a dummy corporation
Iran/Iraq tanker wars, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company; working during Desert Storm at Ras Tanura, explosions at night
Running out of fuel, cleaning fuel filters; Cameron, Louisiana Coast Guard inspection; towing a vessel to the Caribbean; Vancouver
Going up river in Nigeria; sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with a tow, broken air conditioner; Devil’s Island; Trinidad
Communication with family while at sea; keeping the coal-fire stove going; sending mail
Drilling after World War II using U-Boats; sophisticated equipment on vessels
Transporting workers, Billy Pugh system; offshore oil drilling technology; drilling off the Baltimore Canyon in 1981
Towing icebergs off Greenland; offshore oil drilling ships, working with Inuit
Describing the speed of an offshore oil vessel; tracking Russian submarines
Getting into the oil industry as a merchant seamen, first day on the job
Family background; joining the Marine Corps in 1969 and going to Vietnam; joins Zapata Marine Services in 1979; worked for Vita Chemical Tankers
1975 accident on the Delaware River; risk at sea; life after the merchant marine
Leaving cooking job to finish college, wanting to work in the wheelhouse; staying at Seamen’s Church Institute
Dealing with complaints onboard, training as a cook, a day in the life of a cook on a ship
Working for Exxon on tugboats, being the relief cook
Picking up paycheck at Spentonbush-Red Star office in New York; dealing with the union
Male behavior toward a woman onboard; working for Spentonbush-Red Star as a cook, finding support with the crew
Having her photograph in the Getty newsletter; being the first woman crew member for Getty
Game room story; dealing with an all male crew
First job working for Getty as a saloon mess-boy; stretching a liberty ship; comfort-level, buying a world map; isolation on board, dealing with an all male crew
Doing contract work, dealing with a storm
Women in the maritime field; political awareness of the field; learning
College, going into the maritime field, eyesight
Sailing up along the coast with family, hurricane off the coast of North Carolina; taking the Coast Guard auxiliary course
Advice for working on the river; modern communication
Working in the present; Marquette Transportation Company; heading back out, time-off
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Getting paid, increasing wages; first house
Getting along with crewmates; on being a Captain
Going home, spending time-off; keeping in touch with crewmates
Working for time-off, overtime; day for day, “thirty on thirty off”
Being away from family; unions and contracts, non-union companies
Being a pilot for various jobs; working in the harbor and running the river; story about meeting wife
Being in the pilothouse, working on tugs; growing up and farming
First job on boat lasts 38 days; towing oil barges; joins Coast Guard
Childhood; schooling; working at local newspaper; leaves home in 1953, receives port security card
Closing thoughts and reflection; on success
Looking toward retirement; working with Vanderbilt University
New York City being the hub of the river industry; impacting the job market
Being a mentor at Seamen’s Church Institute, learning from case studies
Thoughts on profession today; entering the profession; support system at Seamen’s Church Institute; common sense
Seamen’s Church Institute; working with the Coast Guard
Looking back on professional career, various jobs, 1970s-1980s, takes job at Ingram Barge Company; father retires; working at Seamen’s Church Institute
Maids and daymen onboard; crew members, downsizing; types and sizes of the barges, new technology
Safety on the job, descriptions of safety over time
Family life, having a support system; communicating while away; making the job a good one
Initiation, mentoring, becoming a family, keeping in touch
Obtaining license and working for a tug service in 1975; helping and being accepted by the older mariners
Types of people working in the river industry, riding the river boat as a young boy, aspirations
Reflections on traveling via the rivers, Great-Grandfather and the shore community; day for day schedule, wages
Reflecting about work over the years, closing thoughts
On Rev. Kempton Baldridge; simulator training at Seamen’s Church Institute; towboating, book learning versus hands-on experience
Technology onboard over the years, in the pilothouse; romanticizing and reflecting on the old days; utilizing experience versus today
Human resources, training efficiency; still learning
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Change of command over the years, fear versus respect; treatment of workers
Working at Ingram Barge Company; thoughts on going shoreside
Process for obtaining a first mate’s license; Cargo Carriers; returns to Ingram Barge Company
Summary of jobs since 1974, Ingram Barge Company, started working at Cargo Carriers in 1980, Mississippi Towing
Earning respect onboard, learning and working on deck, training
First trip on the river pumping barges, stories about crew mates pulling pranks
Growing up in western Kentucky on a dairy farm; schooling; summer jobs, first experience working on a barge
Background on parents; accidents on the job
Siblings; working on a barge today; emphasis on safety
Background, living in Western Kentucky, working on the river for the first time; Ingram Barge Company
Advice for newcomers; reflections on the industry from past to present; safety and experience
Moving on from your mistakes, on quitting school; family life
Going shoreside, studying your craft; making a difference
First job as a pilot; Huffman Towing; Ingram Marine Group
Looking back on career, becoming a pilot; having the same name as his father
Reading charts, navigating, river conditions
Learning the feel of the boat; mastering your craft, reading the river
Family life; first trip out; Tennessee Valley Towing
Skipping school and cleaning barges; family in the industry, father working on boats, growing up
Education; on leaving school and working on the river, learning
Background; family, as a child riding on a tug for the first time
Advice for newcomers, thoughts on son’s future; reflection
Using your license accordingly; new applicants, regional maritime industry; transporting cargo
Communication with home; wages and benefits; retiring
Current technology vs. old technology, cell phones, receivers
Going shoreside, emergency situations; missing the freedom of time-off
Medical issues and safe working conditions
Going shoreside, obtaining license, rules and regulations
Captain as a mentor, wheelhouse, safety procedures
Working with the same crew; stepping in the shadows, staying awake too long
Hiring process; parents, working in a factory, leaving home and growing up
Becoming a captain; truck shipping; hiring process
Background, working on first boat in 1982, obtains tanker license
Looking back on the marines and the Vietnam War, communications; combat missions
Calling home; looking back on being a cook
Thoughts on the river in present day; being careful on deck; downtime
Looking back on the industry; getting a job; culture surrounding the river; being home, family
Accidents; traveling through the lower end of the river, scenery; picking up groceries
Taking early retirement; getting along with the crew
Picking up groceries, being a cook; family
Starts working on the river with American Commercial Barge Lines; first voyage working as a cook
Background, joining the marines and the draft; working in the automobile industry after the war
Story about the “dragon lady”; union wars in the eighties
Job advice for younger people; finding work; comparing merchant mariners to the military; rules on smoking; typing skills
Spreading awareness of the merchant mariners, merchant marine academies
Looking back on father’s career; schooling and recertifying; post-retirement
Last voyage, working with different crews
Meeting people; balancing home life; technology over the years
Working on the river; downtime; Seamen’s Church Institute; retiring
Reasons and responses for crew mates quitting; earring story; working on the world’s largest steam dredge
Eastern Shore Railroad; story about crankcase explosion; getting caught in a storm; taking on fuel
Thoughts on going shoreside, having a day off; Port of New York
Changes over the years, safety and regulations; maintaining friendships
Growing up with a maritime father, tugboat; working for several companies during career; retiring
Working on a dredging ship; becoming a chief mate
Childhood, relationship with father; dredging
Working with Seamen’s Church Institute; the flood of ‘93, receiving Al Gore’s Hammer Award
Safety programs over the years; operating World War II surplus equipment, searchlights, navigation
Being a port captain, going on sabbatical; being SCI’s Director of Inland Training, discussing the program
Going shoreside, developing a steersman program; on the job injuries and accidents, safety standards
First voyage, leaving college, obtaining license, working on the Illinois River as a pilot
Background, growing up in Barlow, KY, working for farmers, starts working on the river
The river industry in present day; Seamen’s Church Institute in present day; introducing new technology in the 90’s, “imagination gap”; brick and mortar buildings
Working at Seamen’s Church Institute, being an instructor; changes in the river industry over the years, interviewing deckhands, dealing with the heat
Being a port captain; working with the Chaplain, Seamen’s Church Institute
Moving to and working in Louisiana, becoming a port captain, new technology; making decisions
Working for Madison Coal & Supply Company; working on paddle wheel boats, loading coal barges
Background, family; following the river, first job on the river, obtaining license
Teaching and sharing knowledge; being proud and still being on the river
Advice for younger people, reflecting on the profession
Working with father-in-law, family support; keeping in touch with crewmates over the years, a community onboard
Working for Ingram Barge Company since the 80’s; personal hardship, reflection
Working in present day, having grandchildren; being with Seamen’s Church Institute
Managing family life; working in the 80’s
Technology in the past, radar; working for Ingram Barge Company; obtaining pilot’s license
Training in the wheelhouse on days off; decking; first day as a pilot, starting out
Getting into the rhythm of the work; raising a family; looking for work in the wheelhouse
Background; introduction to the river; previous work; starting out as a deckhand, first job on tugboat
Docking in Delaware Bay; talking while being at the wheel
Trial voyages; being at the wheel, dealing with the waves, watching the water
First voyage after restoration; checking the compasses, getting lost in the bay
Replacing parts on the JOHN W. BROWN; leaking steam
Sailing back home, stopped sailing in 1946
Working on the SS SAM DART, sailing from Naples to Baltimore, dealing with a storm while sailing through the Mediterranean Sea
Working onboard the Liberty ship SS SAM DART in 1944; coffee pots, breaking ice
Segregation onboard; fixing the steering
Machine guns onboard; fixing up the ship; working on converted German tanker in 1945
Returning to England in 1943; transporting coal, unloading in Casablanca
Casting off from the Port of Immingham; steering the STAD ARNHEM; loading and transporting lumber; fishing
Raw fish; engine room, observing the convoy at night; working on the STAD ARNHEM
Sleeping conditions; duties aboard, serving the crew their meals; seagulls
Convoys, working on a Dutch ship in the engine room
Protection on the sea, corvette ships, World War I destroyers
Being a deckhand, sleeping conditions; submarines; convoys
End of training, waiting in the reserve pool; first job aboard a reefer ship in 1942
Training on the VINDICATRIX, eating conditions, lighting on the ships
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 10
Gun tubs; state of Project Liberty Ship today
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New York Harbor School; SS UNITED STATES
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Changes to Project Liberty Ship over the years; younger people on board
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Painting and renovating JOHN W BROWN in the 1980s; visiting the ship, becoming an electrician on board; retaining knowledge of the layout; traveling to the ship
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 5
Basic ship training, tying knots; senior projects, painting the ship
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 4
Project Liberty Ship, James River Reserve Fleet, bringing the ship back to New York City
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 3
Graduating and receiving your degree, coursework, vocational training; Fort Schuyler and Kings Point; post-training for the JOHN W BROWN in New York City, Project Liberty Ship
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 2
Faculty, departments, morning and afternoon groups; row boat team competitions
JOHN W BROWN High School Alumni - Clip 1
JOHN W BROWN curriculum, traveling to the JOHN W BROWN, reasons for attending, interviewing process, grading
Liberty ship BALDWIN after the war, cargo and restoring Europe; Senegalese troops on board
Writing a memoir, playing music; returning to the JOHN W BROWN
Married in 1949; coming shoreside, the draft, odd jobs while being shoreside; buying clothes in Baltimore; benefits in the 1980s; becoming a piano technician and running a music store
Arriving in New York City, staying at Seamen’s Church Institute; shipping out of Baltimore, working on an oil tanker, duties as an oiler
Out to sea for eleven months; after the war, losing propeller of ship heading from Italy to Norfolk, towed into New York City
Shipping troops home after the war; last trip on Christmas going through a storm in the Mediterranean, cracked hull; guns
Santos, Brazil, unloading cargo at various ports
Bar fight in Lorenzo Marquee, going to jail, loading coal, getting the crew back
Docking at Port Said in the Suez Canal, attempted robbery at port, HMS AJAX story, dumping ammunition overboard
Convoy en route to Antwerp, tanker under attack, hearing about the passing of President Roosevelt, VE Day; convoy down to Galveston, German submarine off Port Judith
National Maritime Union, working on first ship, convoy; shipping out of New York City during wartime, submarines
Working on fishing boats as a young boy, tobacco farm, working at a navy base at age sixteen; graduating, National Maritime Union
Growing up in southern Maryland and working on a fishing boat, joining the merchant marine at age seventeen, training
The industry today, advice, closing thoughts
Communications, GDF SUEZ NEPTUNE; working at Massachusetts Maritime Academy; changes in the industry
Micro-managing; changing after the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill
Exxon Hondo platform, loading offshore; working on the EXXON JAMESTOWN, working in Alaska
Teaching at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, class subjects
Graduating from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, flying to first interview for Exxon; navigation technology, radar
Childhood interest in the river; Massachusetts Maritime Academy, living on the training ship USS NANTUCKET
Old piers along the Battery in Manhattan; United Fruit Company ships backing out off the piers without tugboats; a near-accident
McAllister’s dredging operations; towing steel for the Tappen Zee and Verrazano bridges
Families living on barges on Columbia Street in Brooklyn
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Conversations with son about food; cooks on tugboats
Story about a “gentleman” pilot from down South who did not work out
Difference between mates, captains, and pilots; licenses, navigating New York Harbor
Moving barges loaded with coffee to Maxwell House piers on Christmas Eve during a storm
Description of typical workday as a dispatcher
Industry changes, regulations, bigger tugboats
Running the pilot pool for McAllister and Dalzell; working as a salesman for McAllister, attending parties
Thoughts on pilots; growth of McAllister fleet, losing an account
Towing barges for McCallister; working as a dispatcher, description of work, ease of transition shoreside; buying out Russell Brothers in 1963; buying out Dalzell Towing Co. in 1965
Running up Erie Canal, Connecticut Sound, Great Lakes with Russell Brothers; leaving a job in Toledo, taking a deckhand job on the McALLISTER 41 in Brooklyn
Resentment from crew mates, quitting Cornell Steamship Co.; picking up a job on the RUSSELL 20 tug in full Army gear, meeting Walter Hughes
Serving as a paratrooper during the Korean War; returning home and working at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn repairing U.S. Army transports; getting a job as a deckhand with a Cornell Steamship Co. tugboat
ELLEN F. McALLISTER tug boat; coal-burning steam tug boats; accident unloading coal; LST engines in McCallister tugboats
Tornado on Lake Erie, damage to the tugboat and barges; competition with other companies
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Falling overboard and swimming for two hours to the lighthouse in Bridgeport, CT
Training at the Seamen’s Church Institute radar school; taking the captain’s exam
Thoughts on unions; returning from overseas and having trouble getting his union card back in New York City
Towing a cargo of molasses on the RUSSELL 20 from Bermuda; work schedule
Getting his high school diploma; working as a dispatcher, knowledge of the harbor, rapport with captains
Sailing coastal voyages during wartime; navigating through the submarine nets in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound; sailing as a deckhand with a daredevil captain
An accident near Troy, NY, losing a barge down on a dam; trying to save the barge, evacuating the town
Returning from overseas, running from Bucksport, Maine to New York City with newsprint for the New York Times on the RUSSELL 19
Coming shoreside to work in the office at Russell Brothers and Bronx Towing Line; working as a consultant in hospitality services; retirement
Coming home from overseas, returning to work in the harbor, getting his Captain’s license; working for Russell Brothers; marriage and wife
Working on tugboats with his step-father in the 1930s; joining the Army in 1943, joining the paratroopers; fighting overseas, surviving the Waal River Crossing
Piloting the JOHN W BROWN as a memorable experience
Advice for new pilots, apprenticeships; being punctual; closing remarks
Training over the years; communications, DGPS and radar; post-Panamax ships
Keeping in touch with crew mates; different personalities; bridge resource management (BRM)
Settling down in Maine, Tenant’s Harbor; difference between sailing blue water and on coastal tugboats
Difference between traveling on small and large ships; being a pilot while having a family; retirement, benefits of knee surgery
Weather conditions at sea; different kinds of ships and talking to the crew; weather conditions (reprise); miscommunications
Apprenticeship; language of the sea; ship hierarchy
Introduction, background; wanting to be a pilot growing up; apprenticeship
A lucky encounter with a school of whales in Spring 1944
Discovered by a sympathetic guard, given a Russian snowmobile and escapes over 700 miles of tundra to a train in Konosha? back to their ship
Heads into town with a friend – 13:22; 13:35 – train switched tracks and carried them 800 miles to Moscow, sent to a prisoner camp at St. Petersburg at bayonet-point
Reaches Murmansk, icebreakers lead them into Archangel, Russia; frozen-in from December 26 to end of March; unloading on sleds to the railroad
Ships out for the Murmansk Run from Bayonne, NJ in a 37 ship convoy to Glasgow, Scotland; attacked after leaving Scotland, lost 17 ships out of 33
Transporting fuel in Northern Africa, Italy, and the Persian Gulf through the Suez Canal through October 1944
Transports fuel from Bayonne, NJ to the Azores and the UK; passing over the coordinates of the HMS HOOD; passing over the coordinates of the BISMARCK
Encounter with man claiming to be employee of Dutch Royal Shell in Tampico, Mexico; same man leads submarine attack on his ship the next day
Joining the merchant marine on 18th birthday in 1943, training, first voyage on a T-2 tanker in September 1943 to Venezuela for oil
Lack of recognition and compensation for the merchant marine
Attack on the harbor at Bari, Italy in December 1943, theory of the Liberty ship JOHN HARVEY with mustard gas cargo, spreads into town
Thoughts on military strategy in the Pacific
Making a living doing odd jobs after the War, career as an appliance technician, meeting his wife
Studies for his Third Mate license, continues to sail as AB until 1949, goes back to sea during the Korean War
Ships out on a ship with Navy cargo to the Pacific and China with his cousin after the war ends
Sent to an Army hospital in Hollandia, New Guinea; waylaid for a month before being sent to Marine Hospital in San Francisco, hitchhikes home
USS HOPE sent to pick up casualties from Leyte, Philippines
Sent to lubricate the running gear in the rigging, falls and breaks his arm, becomes the first patient on the USS HOPE
Dropped off at Palau, three hospital ships waiting to pick up casualties from Leyte, activity of the Japanese in the Philippines
Picks up 80-ship convoy in Hollandia, New Guinea with General MacArthur in a cruiser in the center of the convoy
“Hot landing” offloading in New Guinea under enemy fire, Sansa Por (off coast of New Guinea)
Sails out on his first Liberty ship from Oakland, CA overloaded with war cargo to New Guinea
Joins the merchant marine at San Francisco with his cousin at 16 years old in 1943
Life on board, getting along with the crew
Exxon’s treatment of employees: meals, holidays, ban on alcohol, movies
Retirement at age 80 after 47 years at sea
Investing in Exxon; treatment of employees
Using the evaporator to make fresh water
Starting as a fireman with Exxon; received training in Boston, earns First Class license
Beginning of career with the Merchant Marine
Army bases across the Arctic Circle; Army men marrying Inuit women
Inuit communities, giving them wood from shipping crates
Cutting ice during the War; accident with the boom snapping
Escorting the Army upriver in Iceland following Germans to German radio station
Beginning of World War II; working on the St. Lawrence River; relationship with river communities
Leaving from Duluth, MN in a Coast Guard cutter and iceberg breaker to Greenland for two years; bringing iron ore to automobile factories on the Great Lakes
Working on a buoy tender on the Great Lakes
Coast Guard bootcamp in New Orleans in 1941
Childhood and family; working for the United States Steel Corporation as an apprentice machinist; becoming a locomotive repairman, begins working at United States Steel Corporation Mobile Equipment Mechanics apprentice training school
Advice for future engineers and mechanics; looking back on teaching
Training workers; troubleshooting and learning
Differences for managers, helping workers; a knack for engineering
Workers stealing, catching them in the act
Comradery on board, disciplining workers
The future of commercial engines, algae fuel
EMD 645 engine, improving on locomotive and towboat engines
Working on engines; relationship between management and workers; troubleshooting
Ingram Barge Company buys Midland Barge Company; helping workers transition from Midland to Ingram
Begins working for Ingram Barge Company in 1981; begins working at McGinnis Inc. Shipyard in South Point, OH; back to Paducah in 2002 for vessel maintenance
Equipment at the school, training, ending the apprenticeship programs; Ohio Barge Line, goes to work in Pittsburgh in 1975
Sobriety on the boat, being saved, routine in daily life
On faith and the road to sobriety, revelation in the chapel, finding hope
Clinton Railroad Bridge incident and learning from it; accident in the coal room; a bolt of lightning on Christmas day in 1989
Captain at 27 years old on the AP CALHOUN, JR; jet boats; being on the same vessel for 30 years, learning the river
Protocol in the wheelhouse, learning skills the hard way
“Sweating Bullets”, fear and overcoming it, making mistakes
Learning skills; marrying at 30 years old, being sober for 21 years, life experience
Working on first boat SIPSEY with a crew of two people; training with Cliff and “Tommy” Griggs; transitioning to line boats
Working on the river at 18 years old in 1971, Malloy Marine Services; starting out cleaning barges, from deckhand to pilot at 20 years old; serendipity
Introduction, childhood, parents working for Hoagland Barge Line Co.; siblings, working on the river in 1971
Carrying lions as cargo; carrying cyanide tanks
Working with American Merchant Marine Veterans Association
Sailing runs in the family, working for SeaLand, Malcolm McLean, McLean Trucking Co.
Retiring in 2000; steam turbine engines; elected to leadership in Offshore Division of Masters, Mates, and Pilots in the 1990s
Crane accident in Bremerhaven; pilfering and containerization
Quarters on SeaLand ships; structural damage from speeding
Differences before container ships; working on the SS SEALAND GALLOWAY
Started working for SeaLand in 1966, speed of cargo ships
Staying at Seamen’s Church Institute; Maersk; working for SeaLand
Background, family; working for Bloomfield Steamship Company at age seventeen
Being at the museum, Capt. Ralph Cropley’s letters, models at the museum
Seamen passing away while staying at 25 South Street, seamen’s monument at Evergreens Cemetery; disabled seamen
25 South Street in the 1960s, renovations in 1970s; flophouses; on profanity
Interactions between seafarers and the chaplains at 25 SOUTH STREET; seafarer’s clothing; “goon squads” in the 1930s
Joseph Conrad Library, newspapers; seafarers hanging out at the museum
Being at 25 South Street, attending dances at the International Club; Sailor’s Snug Harbor; adapting to the weather
Spending time at sea and settling down; 25 South Street; on Capt. Ralph Cropley
Getting involved with Seamen’s Church Institute, working with the Cropley models; starting a family; on BOD for International Ship Holding Corporation; background on National Cargo Bureau
Graduating from Fort Schuyler; helping out at the museum; being a marine surveyor for the National Cargo Bureau in 1970; working with the International Maritime Organization
Background, visiting the Marine Museum at the Seamen’s Church Institute in 1954, meeting Capt. Ralph Cropley; Fort Schuyler
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1846
Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Appendix: Report of the Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Missionary; and Extracts From the Missionary's Minutes of His Labors.
Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York
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Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1847
Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Annual Report of Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Missionary.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1848
Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Report from B. C. C. Parker and Annual Report and Sermon from Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, Missionary.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1849
Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Report from B. C. C. Parker and Annual Report from D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1850
Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker and Rev. D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1851
Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker and Rev. D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1852
Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1853
Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1854
Tenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1855
Eleventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, E. F. Remington. and a Statement from Charles Ely.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1856
Twelfth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1857
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. J. M. Waite, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1858
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. J. M. Waite, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1859
Fifteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Joseph M. Waite and Rev. Robert J. Walker, and a memorial for the late Rev. B. C. C. Parker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1860
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Joseph M. Waite, Rev. Robert J. Walker and B. S. Huntington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1861
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Robert J. Walker, B. S. Huntington and Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1862
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Robert J. Walker, B. S. Huntington, R. G. Quennell and Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1863
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Robert J. Walker and Rev. R. G. Quennell.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1864
Twentieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1865
Twenty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1866
Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1867
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1868
Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1869
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1870
Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Robert J. Walker and Charles Blake.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1871
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1872
Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker and Rev. Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1873
Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Isaac Maguire.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1874
Thirtieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1875
Thirty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1876
Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1877
Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1878
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1879
Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1880
Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1881
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1882
Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1883
Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1884
Fortieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1885
Forty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1886
Forty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1887
Forty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1888
Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1889
Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1890
Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1891
Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Arthur H. Proffitt, T. A. Hyland, Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1892
Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Arthur H. Proffitt, Walter A. A. Gardner, Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1893
Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1894
Fiftieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and O. Egerton Schmidt.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1895
Fifty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and B. F. Butler.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1896
Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and W. H. Wells.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1897
Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Communication from Captain A. T. Mahan and Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and W. H. Wells.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1898
Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Communication from Rev. Henry C. Potter and Captain A. T. Mahan; Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1899
Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1900
Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1901
Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Chas. H. Easton.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1902
Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Robert T. McGusty, Augusta Morris De Peyster, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Roy Farrel Duffield, Chas H. Easton, Edmund Lincoln Baylies and William H. Butterworth.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1903
Fifty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Roy Farrel Duffield, Robert T. McGusty, Chas. H. Easton and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1904
Sixtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1905
Sixty-First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1906
Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1907
Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1908
Sixty-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Chaplain Walter A. A. Gardner, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1909
Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1910
Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Edmund L. Baylies and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1911
Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Edmund L. Baylies, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1912
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1913
Sixty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Edmund L. Baylies and Catharine S. Leverich.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1914
Seventieth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Edmund L. Baylies and Catharine S. Leverich.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1915
Seventy-First Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, the Building Committee, and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1916
Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1917
Seventy-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1918
Seventy-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1919
Seventy-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1920
Seventy-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1921
Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Certificate of Auditors and Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1922
Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1923
Seventy-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1924
Eightieth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Announcement from the Building Committee and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfied.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1925
Eighty-First Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Announcement from the Building Committee and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfied.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1926
Eighty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Announcement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1927
Eighty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Announcement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1928
Eighty-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Statement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1929
Eighty-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1930
Eighty-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1931
Eighty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1932
Eighty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes In Memoriam of Founders of Institute.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1933
Eighty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Profiles on Thomas P. Cummings, Gorge Norton Titus, Rev. Henry John Whitehouse, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Francis Upton Johnston, Theodore Dehon, Charles Tracy, Daniel B. Whitlock and John H. Morrison and a Report from William Williams and J. Mayhew Wainwright.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1934
Ninetieth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Chronology of Institution.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1935
One Hundred and First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Illustrations of Famous Sailing Ships of the Past.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1936
One Hundred and Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reproductions of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Stanley W. Woodward and Charles Robert Patterson.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1937
One Hundred and Third Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Photos by Walter Suessman and Paul Parker and a Drawing by Richard Greyble.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1938
One Hundred and Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Review of 105th Anniversary and Review of American Seamen.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1939
One Hundred and Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Effect of the War in Europe", "Improvements in the Building", "Seamen in the Making", "Where Seafarers Read" and "Mrs. Roper's 50th Anniversary."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1940
One Hundred and Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Ship News" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1941
One Hundred and Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "The War at Sea Continues" and "The War at Sea - 1914-1918" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1942
One Hundred and Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Dedication" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1943
The Year 1943 In Review. Includes "Street of Ships" and "Portrait of an Era 1840-50" by Marjorie D. Candee and "New York - and the Sea" by Robert Greenhalgh Albion.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1944
The Year 1944 In Review (One Hundred and Eleventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "South Street - 1945" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1945
The Year 1945 In Review (One Hundred and Twelfth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "These are the Signs of Peace" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1946
The Year 1946 in Review (One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Cargoes - 1947" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1947
The Year 1947 In Review (One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Dedication of Mural", "Soberly Yours" and "Book Blossoms That Never Fade."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1948
The Year 1948 In Review (One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "More Seamen Than Jobs" and "Clinics Especially Busy."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1949
The Year 1949 In Review (One Hundred Fifteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "The Worst Year Since 1923."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1950
The Year 1950 In Review (One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Street of Ships - South Street - June, 1950" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1951
The Year 1951 In Review (One Hundred Seventeenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Merchantmen" by C. Fox Smith.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1952
One Hundred Eighteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "10,000 Seamen Located" and "Christmas at Sea."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1953
One Hundred Nineteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "At the Library" and "On Christmas."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1954
One Hundred Twentieth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "The Way Ahead."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1955
One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Lost and Found: 11,000" and "Remembering Christmas."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1956
One Hundred Twenty Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Pilot Aboard" and "Missing Seamen Sought by Relatives and Friends."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1957
One Hundred Twenty Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Reaching Out" and "It Wasn't Just the Gift."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1958
One Hundred Twenty Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Waterfront Priests."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1959
One Hundred Twenty Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "An International Undertaking."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1960
One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute - in the Decade of the '60's" and "Port Newark."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1961
One Hundred Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "The Church and the Harbor."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1962
One Hundred Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "SCI Log - Excerpts from Daily Staff Reports."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1963
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Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1964
One Hundred Thirty-First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Seaman of the Month Bruce Warren", "Gemutlichkeit and a Trophy", "Happiness is a Thing Called Sharing", "I Dont' Believe in Sea Monsters" by George B. Berens, "... A Dying Art" by Orlan Fox and "That Eventful Year... 1922."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1965
One Hundred Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Gallant Ship" by George R. Berens, "Strange Navy" and "They Bowed the Atlantic" by James M. Powles.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1966
One Hundred Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Sea Gulls" by P. J. Reale, "The Vow That Lives" by Peter Hesp, "They Still Hunt for Sunken Treasure" by Raymond Schuessler and "Ships and the Seaman" by James P. Baughman.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1967
One Hundred Thirty Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Lights That Never Fail" by Raymond Schuessler, "A.1 at Lloyd's", "Pepper, Please" by Enola Chamberlin and "Saga of the Privateers" by Paul Brock.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1968
One Hundred Thirty Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Widow's Son" by E. W. Harper, "When the Russian Flagship Svetlana Held Easter Services in New York Harbor", "The Early Dream" by Sanford Sternlicht and "Prayerful Mariners" by George R. Berens.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1969
1969 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "Birds at Sea" by Ray Rives, "Hands Across the Sea to Portgual" by Harold G. Petersen, "Three Sea Devils" by John Britton, "Troubled Waters" by Glynn Mapes and "Horned Whale Lurks in the Arctic."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1970
The 1970 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "They Sailed Into Oblivion" by Paul Brock, "First American Lifeboat Built in Nantucket" by J. R. Crane, "Maury: America's Sea Chart Pioneer" by Alan Major, "The Alanthus' Day of Glory" by James M. Powles, "Workers' Paradise" by Fredie Steve Harris and "A Salute to Our Neighbors: The Seamen's Bank for Savings in the City of New York."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1971
1971 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "Waterspouts, Genii of the Seas" by Arthur Black, "The Hudson River Night Boat" by Alan Major, "Block Island Life-Saving Station", "The Pal" and "A Salute to Our Neighbors: Fraunces Tavern."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1972
The Annual Report 1972. Includes "From Clipper Ships to Intermode", "Spring '73 at the Roosevelt Institute" and "The Blue Riband" by Paul Brock.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1973
1973 Annual Report. Includes "SCI - The Seaman's Special Friend for 140 Years", "Merchant Marine School Has Banner Year in '73", "Mariners International Center a Welcome Oasis for Seamen in New Jersey Port Area", "Missing Seaman's Bureau Continues to Perform Vital Service", "Ship Visitors Offer Helping Hand to New Arrivals in Port", "Counseling Services in Regular Demand by Seamen and Their Families" and "Institute Provides Protestant Chaplain for Staten Island U.S. Public Health Hospital."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1974
1974 Annual Report. Includes "Some Thoughts on Seamen... and SCI" and "New Program Launched at SCI."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1975
1975 Annual Report. Includes "Why I Opt for SCI" by Pat Jones.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1976
1976 Annual Report. Includes "Santa's Ho-Ho-Ho Heard by 10,000 at Sea Last Christmas" and "Letters from Seamen."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1977
Annual Report 1977. Includes "The Conrad Library... a Quiet but Busy Place for Seamen" by Robert Wolk.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1978
1978 Annual Report. Includes "N.Y.C. Ports Commissioner Moves to Fully Develop City's Waterfront Resources" and "In Times of Crises" by Rev. William Haynsworth.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1979
1979 Annual Report. Includes "A Spiritual Port of Call for Seamen" by Monica Maske.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1980
One Hundred Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1981
1981 Annual Report. Includes "In Search of a Miracle: The Future of Professional Seamen", "America's Future: A View from Abroad", "The Sandy Hook Pilots" by Francis J. Duffy, "The Era of the Floating Chapels", "Shipvisiting and the Institute: Three Seminarians Give Their View" by Ann C. Lammers and "Antonio Jacobsen: From Sail to Steam" by Margaret Miller.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1982
1982 Annual Report. Includes "A Port Without Peers" by Sid Moody, "Renewal of US Maritime Strength a Key Goal of New Transportation Secretary", "Seafarers' Services Division at the Heart of SCI Programs", "The Black Whalers of Nantucket" by Anita M. Gauthier and "US Merchant Ships as the Fourth Arm of Defense. Where Do We Stand?"
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1983
1983 Annual Report. Includes "Volunteers Bring Special Touch to Work of the Institute", "Summer Seminarians Gain Insight into Life of the Seafarer", "Maritime Friends of SCI Honor a Special Friend and Launch the Institute's 150th Anniversary Year", "Center for Seafarers' Rights Made a Division of Institute" and "A Moment in History: 'The Youngsters of the Seven Seas'" by John Bunker.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1984
1984 Annual Report. Includes "A Day at SCI's Port Newark Center", "Summer Seminarians", "Commissioner Susan Frank", "The Saga of the Star of Scotland" by Dr. Robert B. Hope, "Ports and Happy Havens" by Rev. William Haynsworth and "Lucky Sea Dog Learns to Dance" by Dr. Tessa Nelson-Humphries.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1985
1985 Annual Report. Includes "Capt. Elizabeth G. Wylie and the Military Sealift Command - Atlantic", "The Court Carrier 'Saga'", "Ninth Gala Dinner Honors Michael Maher" and "Port State Control Conference Draws International Maritime Community."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1986
1986 Annual Report. Includes "City Ports Department is on the Move", "Meet Mimi Potts", "Book of Remembrance Marks Its Thirty-Fifth Year" and "Peking: The Men Who Sailed Her."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1987
1987 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1988
1988 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1989
1989 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1990
1990 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1991
1991 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1992
1992 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Standards of Care", "Spotlight" and "CME Course Descriptions."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1993
1993 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Communicate", "A Community of Hospitality" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1994
1994 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Communicate", "The Legacy of Seafarers' Rights" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1995
1995 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Expansion of Maritime Services Underway", "Communicate" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1996
1996 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Reaching Distant Shores: SCI Empowers Chaplains to Start Port Missions", "Communicate", "Spotlight" and "Picture This."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1997
1997 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Buildings of SCI", "The Architects Comment", "SCI's Floating Chapel History", "Opportunities for Giving", "Special People, Special Places" and "Spotlight/Profiles."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1998
1998 Annual Report. Includes "Maritime Training: CME Creates Computer Simulations of South American Rivers."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1999
1999 Annual Report. Includes "Maritime Training: SCI to Open New Center for Maritime Education."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2000
2000 Annual Report. Includes "Latin American Ports", "Center for Seafarers' Services", "Center for Maritime Education", "Center for Seafarers' Rights" and "Water Street Gallery."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2001
2001 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Helps the Heroes at Ground Zero", "Center for Maritime Education", "Center for Seafarers' Services", "Center for Seafarers' Rights" and "Water Street Gallery."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2002
2002 Annual Report. Includes "Ship Visiting Brings Message of Hope", "Top Ten Reasons Why Seafarers Rely on CSR" and "Competent Error is a Problem of Attitude."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2003
2003 Annual Report. Includes "International Seafarers' Center", "Ministry on the River" and "International Training Center for Workplace Ministry (ITC)."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2004
2004 Annual Report. Includes "Spiritual Ports on a Lonely Sea" by John Chadwick and "Towboat Crews Often Work Unseen During Long, Intensive Journeys" by Jennifer C. Yates."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2005
2005 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Serves Mariners' Personal Needs", "Seamen's Church Institute Educates Mariners" and "Hurricane Katrina and Rita Relief."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2006
2006 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Educates Mariners", "Seamen's Church Institute Serves Seafarers and Cruise Ship Workers" and "Seamen's Church Institute Provides Care to River Mariners."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2007
2007 Annual Report. Includes "SCI Provides Pastoral Care and Hospitality in the Port of New York & New Jersey", "SCI Serves Cruise Ship Workers in Manhattan and Brooklyn" and "SCI Conducts State-of-the-Art Navigation and Safety Training."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2008
2008 Annual Report. Includes "Cruise Ship Terminal Services" and "SCI's Heritage: Celebrating 175 Years in 2009."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2009
2009 Annual Report. Includes "SCI Goes West, Adds New Operations in California", "The Human Cost of Piracy" and "World-Class Technology Unveiled in Paducah."
Includes "Institutes on the Great Lakes", "Memorial Service", "Visitors" and "Mercantile Fleets of the World"
Includes "A Bit of History", "North River Station" and "Breakwater Notes"
Includes "Work Among the Yachtsmen", "Sleeping on Billiard Tables", "Breakwater Notes", "No Allotment Here" and "$5,000 for Relief Work"
The Lookout September 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 5)
Includes "The North River Station", "An Appreciated Gift" and "Novel Life Preserver"
Includes "Who Man Our Ships?" and "The Breakwater"
The Lookout November 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 7)
Includes "A Sailor's Burial", "North River Station", "Legislation in Contemplation"and "Concerning American Seamen"
The Lookout December 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 8)
Includes "Report to the Diocese" and "An Important Commission"
Includes "Breaking Ground" and "To Avoid Confusion"
The Lookout February 1911 (Vol 1. No. 10)
Includes "Endorsement by the Chamber of Commerce" and "Special Matinee Performance of Konigskinder, under the Auspices of the Seamen's Benefit Society"
Includes "New York Produce Exchange: Resolutions Unanimously Adopted by the Board of Managers February 16, 1911", "The Building Fund", "Konigskinder Matinee" and "North River Station"
1 book, 11 pages
Includes "A Larger View", "Seamen's Benefit Society" and "A Layout of Rooms"
Includes "The Second Step" and "Mr. Tristam Johnson"
The Lookout September 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 5)
Includes "Thirty Thousand Letters" and "Benefit of Clergy"
Includes "Progress of the Building" and "Savings Department"
The Lookout November 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 7)
Includes "The New Elevation" and "The Sailor and the Hotel"
The Lookout December 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 8)
Includes "The Building Grows", "The Annual Meeting", "A Letter Home", "After Six Years", "A 'Party'" and "Gift of a Piano"
1 book, 12 pages
Includes "Eddystone Lighthouse Tower", "A Sequel", "Christmas Eve at No. 1 State", "The Lonely Old Sailor", "Cosmopolitan Depositors" and "Fog."
booklet
The Lookout February 1912 (Vol. 2 No. 10)
Includes "The Wreck of the 'Virginia'", "Sleeping on the Floor", "We Need Comfort Bags", "Diverse Incidents" and "The Superintendent's House."
Includes "Bread Upon the Waters", "Savings Department Problem", "A. B. of 'Essex'", "A Greek and a Cab Driver", "The Husband", "Shipping Department", "Comfort Bags" and "Clothing."
Includes "Clothing 'Titanic' Crew", "A Correction", "Bishop Burch Speaks at Titanic Memorial Service", "The Final Installment" and "The Superintendent's House."
Includes "275 Persons Contribute to Lantern Tower - $3,000 Still Needed", "Shanghaied Seamen in 1912", "The Organ" and "The Passing of a Warship."
Includes "Adventure Seekers", "About Apprentice Lads", "From Buenos Aires", "The Hand-Made Cross", "After Fourteen Years", "What They Write" and "Large Bedrooms at $250."
Includes "What the Seaman Calls 'Dunnage'", "Another Seaman Victim", "A Bit of Description", "Two Dormitories at $1,000 Each - One Already Reserved", "Sailors or Seamen?", "Watch and Watch" and "'Titanic Memorial Lighthouse.'"
The Lookout September 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 5)
Includes "Lantern Tower Memorial", "A Lad of Fifteen", "Fifty Years at Sea" and "The Legacy."
Includes "Unique Foundations of the New Institute", "'Titanic Memorial'", "An Acknowledgement", "An Adjustment", "Large Bedrooms at $250.00" and "From the Harbour."
The Lookout November 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 7)
Includes "In the Depths", "'The Times' Comments", "Chaplain Carpenter Resigns", "A Bit of Psychology", "Lads from the Ships", "To Rig a Ship", "$5,000 Contribution" and "Thank Offering"
The Lookout December 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 8)
Includes "The Washington Statue in Wall Street", "A Slice of Life", "Cycling Around the World", "Lunch Room Taken", "Calenders", "Cockatoo from Singapore", "Fishermen's Yarn" and "Comedy and Tragedy."
Includes "Chanties", "Weather Vane Taken", "The Obsession of Luc", "Home to Die", "In the Mail", "'Breakwater' Christmas", "Immediate Response", "Recreation Room Equipment" and "A Cake."
The Lookout February 1913 (Vol. 3 No. 10)
Includes "What Really Happens", "The Fitting out of Thomas", "Officers' Rooms at $250.00", "Dormitories Taken", "Compass $750.00", "'Alias'", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500" and "$1.00 Will Help."
Includes "The Arm of Anastesiades", "Lighthouse Dedication on Roof of New Building", "Main Stair-case Taken", "The 'Longboat'", "Elevators $1,000 Each", "The Versatile Edward", "Baggage Department $2,000", "Compass Taken", "Middle Dormitory Taken at $1,000", "The 'Slop-Chase' $1,500", "Altar in Chapel", "Andrew's Imagination", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500", "Magneta Clocks $1,250.00", "Afterward" and "Billiard Table Gift."
Includes "One State Street Sold", "Sixteen to Fifty Years", "Officers' Rooms at $250.00", "Vestry Room Furniture", "Chapel Gifts", "Baggage Department $2,000", "Necessity's Child", "Laundry $1,500", "An Aeroplaning $20.00", "Two Tables and Shuffle-Board $770.00", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500", "Elevators $1,000 Each", "Magneta Clocks $1,250.00", "One Fountain Taken", "Finnish Names" and "Five Pianos $1,750"
Includes "The Spirit of the Memorial Speaks", "The New Institute on the Cover", "New Benefactors", "The Arrival", "The End of the 'Sentinel': New Boat Will Cost $10,000", "Lantern Tower Cards", "Lighthouse Tower and Timeball Dedicated to the Titanic Victims" and "Through the Window."
Includes "The Christening", "From the Harbor", "Opening: The New Institute", "One of the Best Wishes" and "From Australia."
Includes "The Dirge of the Derelict", "Ice Cream Money", "The Confidence of Daniel", "New Boat Needed to Cost $10,000", "When Chinese Meet British" and "A Beautiful Memorial Custom"
Includes "We Must Have a New Boat", "Ice Cream for Apprentices", "The Day of Days" and "Stories About 'Dunnage'"
The Lookout September 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 5)
Includes "Stories About Dunnage", "Large Gifts", "'Passing the Love of Women'" and "The Case of Henry."
"Hotel Reading Room, Seamen's Church Institute of New York, 25 South Street"
Black and white postcard depicting the reading room at 25 South Street, the headquarters of the Seamen's Church Institute from 1913-1967. Well-dressed sailors of various ages sit at desks with newspapers and other reading material.
Includes Eight Black and White Photographs of the Building at 25 South Street and "The Light in the Tower", "The Man-Who-Gives-Advice" and "Seamen at Home in New Institute."
The Lookout November 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 7)
Includes Four Black and White Photographs of the Building at 25 South Street and "Our New Boat the J. Hooker Hamersley", "New Founder", "A Bed for a Night" and "New Chapel Dedicated."
The Lookout December 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 8)
Includes "What They Ask 'Following' the Sea", "The Cheeriness of Michael", "President Elected: Edmund Lincoln Baylies", "Seamen's Bedrooms All Taken" and "Battle Between the 'Hornet' and the 'Penguin': Extracts from the Diary of Captain William Skiddy"
Includes "Jack and the Social Instinct", "A Desire for Shoes", "How Money Fluctuates", "The Ready Tears", "Savings Deposited", "First Christmas Concert", "Spanish Seamen", "Shanghaiing" and "'Ambulance' Ships."
The Lookout February 1914 (Vol. 4 No. 10)
Includes "Good Ship 'Elevator'", "The Sweet Tooth of Bobby", "Michael, The Impressionistic", "A Matter of Sentiment", "Music, Drama and 'Art'", "Officers' Rooms $250.00", "Mrs. Augusta Cook Chapin", "The Lure of the Airship", "Gifts or Memorials", "Wreck of the 'Marjorie Brown'" and "Announcements of Gifts."
Includes "The Blowing of the Wind", "An Appeal to Rosa", "To Sleep o'Nights", "Gifts or Memorials", "The Ring That Jack Lost", "'These Few Lines'", "Confirmation Services", "Jose and Root Beer", "Clothing and Shoes", "Mrs. William Rhinelander", "J. Augustus Johnson" and "All Officers Rooms Taken."
Includes "Grains of Salt", "Other Pianos Needed", "On the Way to the 'Lakes'", "Anonymous Gift of $2,000", "Class Room, $1,500", "Lenten Sewing Class", "A Belief in Gardens", "Sailing in the 'Longboat'", "Small Dormitory $350", "The Long Arm of the Law", "The Enterprise of Max", "Kneeling Benches $200.00", "The Rewards of Ingenuity", "The Chocolate Soda" and "The Pretense of Paul."
Includes "The Friendly Argument", "Existence Closes an Account", "'Winter's Traces'", "Supplementary Dormitory Gift", "In the Enemy's Camp", "His Comrade", "Entertaining Boys", "Sending a Picture Home", "Ginger Ale the Pretender", "At Parting", "'Ples, Mister!'", "Maps of the World", "Animation", "The Figure that Proves" and "Palm Tree from Cuba."
Includes "Whistling for Trouble", "Ice Cream Money", "Borrowing", "In Search of Adventure", "Between New York and Brooklyn", "Uniform for Institute Employees", "Death and the Foreigner: A Burial Fund", "Brother Three", "About Shipping", "Jacob Suggests", "Inventing a Language", "David Changes His Mind", "Care's Ravelled Sleeve", "Chapel Chairs", "Six Rooms on 12th Floor $250.00", "Window in Chapel", "Music on the 'Queen Bess'" and "Vestry Room $500.00."
Includes "The Last Port", "Henry Makes an Inquiry", "$1,000 Sent Home", "Michael Makes a Choice", "Window in Chapel", "Vestry Room Made Gift", "A Little Brother to Noah", "By Way of Gratitude", "Seeing New York Automobile", "Being Absent-Minded", "Death and the Foreigner: A Burial Fund", "Portable Organ Needed", "The Institute Entertains", "Gifts or Memorials" and "The Fear of Sharks."
Includes "Sea Fever", "When a Sailor Needs a Friend", "The Rebellion of Morris", "'Seeing New York'", "Sleepy Patriotism", "Incinerator $450", "Albert and the Law", "Supplementary 'Slop Chest'", "Toys for the Canal-Boat Children", "Oscar Proves Himself", "Pictures Wanted for the North River Station", "John is Misunderstood", "Three New Fountains", "Five Rooms on Twelfth Floor $250 Each", "That Eagerness for Battle", "To Make Ice Cream. $500", "Hospital Cases" and "Small Dormitory $350."
The Lookout September 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 5)
Includes "Seagoing Samaritans", "Those North Sea Mines", "One Officer's Room", "The Green Cucumber", "Soda Fountain $1,500", "Albert the Perplexed", "The Retort Caustic", "S. S. Red Cross", "Laundry $1,500", "War and Baseball", "The Whole World Kin", "Victor Records", "Three New Fountains", "Five Rooms on Twelfth Floor $250 Each", "Cedric Pays His Debt", "From an Apprentice's Mother" and "Small Dormitory $350."
Includes "The Ballad of Lost Ships", "A Little Matter of Race", "Safety First", "The Heroic Peter", "Blundering Billy", "Peace Service: Dr. Stires Speaks", "Portable Organ Gift", "Progress of the Boat", "Frame for the Trowel. $10.00", "Altar Piece in Small Chapel", "Chapel Chairs", "Rosewood Billiard Table", "Chapel Chairs $5.00" and "Tom Seeks a Job"
The Lookout November 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 7)
Includes "At the Hotel Desk", "The Quest of Limpy", "A Transfer of Motives", "A Seaman's Viewpoint", "Green Things for the Lobby", "Off Duty", "Small Dormitory Made Gift", "50 Chapel Chairs", "Chapel Chairs" and "Gifts or Memorials."
The Lookout December 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 8)
Includes "Gifts to the Building Fund May be Made Memorials", "What the Sailor Calls 'Dunnage'", "For German Sailors", "That Complete Reference", "Models of Ships", "Greens for Christmas", "A Choice of the World", "About Encouragement", "It Can Be Done", "Seaman's Room 1042 ($100)", "Recent Subscriptions", "Clothing and Shoes", "The 'J. Hooker Hamersley' New Tender Launched" and "Admiral Mahan."
Includes "'J. Hooker Hamersley' Dedicated", "The Institute Helps the Unemployed Sailor", "Harbor Voyages", "Considering Mother" and "The Scourge of Sentiment."
The Lookout February 1915 (Vol. 5 No. 10)
Includes "While Ben Slept", "The Bewildering Changes", "Barber Shop Taken", "Chris the Cautious", "A Lookout Reader Writes", "Recent Contributions", "They Make the Inquiry", "Snow Shovellers", "An Arctic Explorer", "Senor Tuzzio is Ordained", "What Petersin Wanted", "No Ships' Concerts", "The Fate of Jonassen", "German Sailors" and "Tim Makes a Bad Bargain."
Includes "Luncheon to City Fathers", "Quick Action", "Chapel Chairs", "A Concert Vaudeville", "Fountains All Taken", "Staff Room 1205 ($250.00)", "Making Statistics Alluring", "Crew of the 'Chester'", "The News About Ivor", "Recent Subscriptions", "Children Dance for Seamen", "A Vowel Sound", "Music and Drama" and "Room 1208 Taken."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Steamship Companies and Agents Subscribing to $150,000 Campaign", "Disappointing 'Sciencers'", "Music and Drama", "Alan Tells the Truth", "In the War", "Prinz Eitel Friedrich Prisoners", "The Musical Soul of Simeon", "Holy Week Services", "Soda Fountain $1500.00", "A Subtle Vocabulary", "Chapel Chairs", "William Douglas Sloane", "Baggage Department $2.000", "Pomfret School Room 1205" and "Festival Choir Concert."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Last Minute News: $105,800", "$10,000 Additional!!", "Resolutions", "Chapel Chairs", "Ice Cream Maker Taken", "Class Room Taken", "Officers of the Fleet to Inspect the Institute", "Hafiz Refuses Money", "A Japanese Dance for Apprentices", "Confirmation Class" and "Gifts or Memorials."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Soda Fountain Made a Gift", "The Affable Manuel", "Altar Flowers", "An Unusual Concert", "Music and Drama", "The Occupation of Olaf", "Flowers for Anniversary", "Henrik Gets His Dunnage", "The Chapel Bell", "The Apprentices Entertain", "Jim Protests" and "The Singing Seamen"
Includes "Subscriptions to the Building Fund", "Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield Receives His Doctors' Degree", "The New Slop Chest. Made a Gift", "A Gift in Memory", "He Tells His Name", "Books and Magazines", "Mark Settles His Accounts", "Phonograph Records", "Tim Reckons Time", "The Generic John", "Waiting for a Tow Line", "Concerts for 1915-16", "The Thrifty Evan", "The Effect of Culture", "684 Seamen Employed", "That Best Policy" and "Hunting Mr. Hoftyser."
Includes "Subscriptions to the Building Fund", "Gift of Reredos", "Magazines for the Trenches", "Picnic on the Lawn", "Gift of $5,000", "He Leaves His Money", "The End of Mark", "House Clinic Equipment", "Ices in the Hospital", "Gift of Vegetable Paring Machine", "A Taste for Pink Froth", "Piano and Pictures", "Gift of a Clock", "Paying Back", "A Full House", "A Recommendation", "Ice Cream Money" and "Baking Machine $300.00."
The Lookout September 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 5)
Includes "Gift from Rockefeller Foundation", "Gift of the Late J. Pierpont Morgan", "Founders and Benefactors", "Financial Statement", "To Become a Member", "Subscription to the Clinic", "The Churches and Our New Chapel", "An Old Mortgage", "Recent Subscriptions", "The Optimism of Paul", "More Plumbing" and "A Pianola for Lobby."
Includes "For Good", "Where the Launch Helps", "Old Clothing. Shoes", "Saving by Force", "Writing", "Noon-Day Talks", "Chapel Services", "The Problem", "Tea for Officers", "Drinking Water", "All for Etiquette", "African Utopia" and "That Well Known Free Masonry."
The Lookout November 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 7)
Includes "Exhibit at Synod Hall", "Educational Talks", "Strephon Leaves a Letter", "The Price of Luxury", "In the Hospitals", "First Aid Lectures", "About Temperance", "Songs by Seamen", "Drinking Water", "War Times", "Furniture for Stage" and "Succeeding as a Stowaway."
The Lookout December 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 8)
Includes "On the Corner", "A Woman's Prayer for Peace", "Special Helper's Room Made a Memorial", "Illuminated Sign", "Mr. Herbert Barber", "Resolutions", "At Grand Central Palace", "Programme of Entertainments", "For His Birthday", "A Meeting on the Boat", "The Piano Problem", "Joint Conference" and "New Whistle."
Includes "Seeking the Lost", "Illuminated Sign $500.00", "Emil Goes Back", "A Matter of Integrity", "Christmas for Boys", "For the Stage", "By Early Candle Light", "The Artistic Soul of Nils", "The Missing Husbands", "Christmas at the Institute", "Warm Clothes", "Dividing the Angle" and "Anthony Swears Off."
The Lookout February 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 2)
Includes "The Peruvian Canary", "Monthly Luncheon", "The Forward Step", "Are We Downhearted?" and "The Institute Entertains 'S.S. Appam' and Six Other Crews."
Includes "A Little Spartan Treatment", "Staff Office Gift", "The Slumbers of Larry", "Electric Massage", "Special Lenten Services", "The Incinerator", "He Looks for the East", "Entertainments", "Princeton Evening at the Seamen's Church Institute", "Fighting for a Principle" and "Illuminated Sign $500."
Includes "To Enclose the Roof", "Bert Hears the Church Bell", "The Brief Career of Francis", "His Name", "Sailory Day May, 7th", "Drinking Water $500", "Promising to Pay", "The Peaceable Pipe" and "Thomas M. Potts."
Includes "Sailors' Day Service: May 7th", "A Choice of Words", "New Piano", "Somewhere! Some Country!", "The Convictions of Mrs. Zions", "Gift of Desk", "Enclosing the Roof" and "The Cautious Conscience."
Includes "Uncle Lans", "Bob Leaves His Address", "A Matter of Pride", "Not Medical Attention", "Our New Telegraph Office", "Old Carpet", "The Preoccupied Andrew", "Bergen in the Bronx" and "Motion Picture Machine $700."
Includes "A Wanderer's Song", "A Question of Etiquette", "Geoffrey Prepares", "Water for the Thirsty", "A Family Secret", "The Good Old Days", "The Laundry $1500.00", "As for Marriage", "Out of the Darkness", "The Fitness of Prizes", "A Sportsman's Tribute", "The Search", "His Modest Wish", "Sunday Service", "The Talent of Marie", "Clothing and Shoes", "Two Staff Offices $200.00" and "German Efficiency"
Includes "The Tangible Vision: Roof Enclosure Assured", "The Gift", "His Floral Offering", "Motion Picture Machine $700", "The Enforced Smile", "A Matrimonial Viewpoint", "Something in a Name", "Mentioned in Despatches", "Victrola Records", "The Courtesy of Olaf" and "A Matter of English."
The Lookout September 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 9)
Includes "The Truth About Tim", "A Matter of Taste", "Common Sense", "Beneath Flowered Silk", "A Question of Fear", "The Sea", "Defining Trouble", "Geography First", "Those Shanghaiing Days", and "Passing of the Shanghaiing Days: Regret of Battery's Old Boatman."
The Lookout October 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 10)
Includes "Two 'S. S. West Point' Boys", "The Perfect Description", "The Active Pianos", "On the Bulletin Board", "The Feminine Place", "When the Barge Sank", "Burial Fund", "Magazines and Books", "Lecture Season", "An Apology" and "Altar Flowers."
The Lookout November 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 11)
Includes "Our Early History", "Lookout Publication", "A Proof of Friendship", "The Seamen's Church Institute of America" and "Report of the Joint Board of the Seamen's Church Institute of America."
The Lookout December 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 12)
Includes "Captains Adventurous", "Antonio Sees a Ghost", "An Appeal to Vanity", "Hands Across the Sea", "Christmas Presents", "Yankee Seamen Command New 'Fore-and-Afters'", "Christmas Dinners", "A Memory for Places", "There Ain't No News", "Getting Information", "A Matter of Identity" and "A Gift for the Game Room."
Includes "1917 Bows!", "The Best Part", "Hendrik and the Gift", "Buying Amusement", "Turkey for Dinner", "Reflectoscope", "Early Candle Gleams", "The Musical Ear of Max", "Hospital Christmas", "Apprentice Holidays", "Anson the Ambitious" and "The Boon of Cleanliness."
The Lookout February 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 2)
Includes "Musical Gift", "Like a Letter from Home", "The Throat of Sandy", "Being Visited", "The Precaution", "A Matter of Pride", "What He Wanted", "Reflectoscope", "Magazines", "An Amiable Deduction", "Simon is Sorry", "Books", "A Taste for Tropics", "A Cause for Friendship" and "Startling Figures."
Includes "The Roof Magnificent", "A Little English", "Spanish Ship Sails", "Saxeby, the Thrifty", "Reflectoscope Given", "Exchanges - Our Bad Penny", "Coast Guard Recruits", "Under the Cap", "Improvements", "The Perfect Tribute", "Sailors' Day on April 22nd", "The Call of the Salt" and "Edward N. Tailor."
Includes "Sailors' Day April 22, 1917", "Tickets for Sailors' Day", "Sailors' Day Poster", "Their Day", "New Flag", "Dr. Mansfield Speaks in Charleston", "Roof Enclosure Gift Increased to $50,000", "And Romance", "Confirmation in Hospital" and "Two Staff Offices, Gift of Mrs. Polk."
Includes "The Well Known Prodigal", "Survivors from Sunken Ships", "American Flag Slide", "Easter Gift Concert", "A Gentle Message", "The Laundry", "Gold Braid and Buttons", "Tommy, the Cheerful", "Sextant Gift", "A Prisoner", "You Can't be Too Careful", "In Two Years", "A Scotch Viewpoint", "In Spite of Years", "A Gentleman Thief" and "Cosmopolitan Sewing Class."
Includes "Ships, Officers, Men!", "A Lack of Enterprise", "No Empty Beds", "May Moving", "Hopeful", "Signal Flags $50.00", "Gift of Towels", "Lines by an Amateur Naval Reserve Seaman and Poet", "Active Service", "The Imperfect Subway", "Mother's Day", "Institute Men Enlist", "Ben, the Belligerent" and "Roof Nearly Finished"
Includes "Scholars on the 'Hamersley'", "And It Really Happens", "No Food, No Water", "French and British Gunners", "On the Roof", "Why He Was Certain", "Interned Seamen Study", "3,800 Seamen Register", "What They Answered", "Hot Weather Music", "Flowers in Memory" and "Willing to Fight."
Includes "Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse Donors of Roof", "Let the Seamen Ride", "The Graceful Compliment", "Gift of Flags", "Skating Seamen", "Dr. Brady Preaches", "Braving the Submarined Sea", "Ice Cream Money" and "The Last Large Gift $1,000."
The Lookout September 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 9)
Includes "They See New York", "Men Turned Away", "The Failing Light", "Seamen to Ride", "Rollers Against Rum", "The Placard", "Sailor Collar Stripes", "The Old Theme", "He Stated it Exactly", "Navigation School Moves", "Shore Clothes, Sea Gear Tailor Shop", "Motor Kills Seaman" and "Records, Rolls, Music."
The Lookout October 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 10)
Includes "East Side, West Side", "Talk and Coffee", "Seaman in French Grave", "Jim Reads the Papers", "Snow-ball, the Luxurious", "Bag Saves Man's Life", "Seamen Ride", "Music for Chapel", "A Grudging Bit of Praise", "Peter's Eyes", "They Recommend It", "Her Son", Photograph of Forty Mariners and Reproduction of New Flag, Official Emblem of the Seamens Church Institute of America.
The Lookout November 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 11)
Includes "Thanksgiving Comes", "Before They Sailed", "The Merchantmen", "Home Hour", "What San Francisco Does", "For Songs and Chords", "What Relief Really Means", "Our Own War-Ship", "Mrs. Baylies Honored' and "The Power of Example."
The Lookout December 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 12)
Includes "Dining Out", "Rest and Forgetting", "Gabriel, of the Sailing Ships", "The Insatiable Bastien", "A Present for Each Man", "The Curing of Hardy", "A Belgian Boy Wants Letters", "They Question Union" and "Green Bay and Holly."
The Lookout January 1918 (Vol. 10, No. 1 [Vol. 9 No. 1])
Includes "Christmas! Christmas! Trees, Gifts, Dinner" and "Institute War Events."
The Lookout 1918 February (Vol. 10, No. 2 [Vol. 9 No. 2])
Includes "Special Movie Evening" and "Public Lectures: Seamen's Church Institute."
Includes "Archbishop of York at Institute", "The Minturn Gift" and "Henry Lewis Morris."
Includes "The Rope with the Golden Strands", "What We Need" and "Seamen in the Army."