Maine Maritime Academy - Tricks End Yearbook (Castine, ME)

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TH If STACK I The stack to us is a symbol. A SYlIllJ0il of long hours of arduous work. Ol' chipping, of scrap- ping, of red leading and painting. But, lnore than that, the stack with its long plume ol' smoke trailing far behind symbolizes '5Anchors Aweighf' goodbyes, new ports - Adventure ahead! The stack is an integral part of most modern ships. its function is to carry olfl' the products of combustion created by the burning fuel oil. As such il is a source of much distress to the fastidious deck officer, for the Engineer living away from the sun has little regard for cleanli- ness above decks. The result - a poor mixture, inferior combustion and the decks laden with soot. The stack is a comparatively modern addition to ships when viewed along the long avenue of history. The first stack, actually not a real stack by the above definition, was the one used in the galley, alieetioliately called g'Charlie Noble. Stacks really appeared with the advent, ol' steam boats about 1800, and soon became a very decorative part of all vessels. About the turn of the 19th century, stacks were quite the mode, with the large liners lol' that dayl having as many as four or five stacks where one would suffice. Even today, the Giants - the '6Queen However, the hey day of the stack is destined to bc over. ln this fast-changing world, Motor ships will soon replace the others. Some ol' these are already on the High Seas, and, stackless, they are indeed a strange sight. We'll miss the stack. Nw Maryw and the HNormandie'7 than necessary. They give great size and help awe the carry more stacks the impression of timid first Voyager. He soon Finds out, however, that these false 'ii , .JI ff. WM. , vi, .. stacks are used for a variety of purposes, namely: Dog Kennels, game rooms, and solariums. 2-265, ug R59 f , .1 ab .N X fr g,qv'6iLQ' r 1' 14, Z 1 game Jae.: ff -' X X f 6 ,2f'2f,!jwl ,. , fpf f ,. 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Throughout tl1e cen- turies, the development continued until in 1730 Thomas Godfrey and John Hardey, working separately, constructed the first instrument that bears resemblance to our modern sextant. Nathaniel Bowditch in the early 19th century put the finishing touches on the sextant and with a few ilnprovcments it remains the instru- ment we use today. Right now sextants are virtually priceless, what with the great expansion ol' our shipping, naval and merchantile. Sextants 50 years old and over have been called into service to help do their share for Victory.

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IZIIQST CIQIJISE This is the log of our first cruise. Late on the night of Tuesday, September 1, 1942, some one hundred and ninety midshipmen, the first and second classes of the Maine Maritime Academy, arrived at Pier Sixty-one, New York City, to board the M. S. T. S. Alleghany. We had a long, tiresome train ride that day, and after we stowed Kuhn. all our gear aboard, each one of us climbed wearily into the nearest bunk, some going below to stretch out on the deck of number five hold. The next morning we had our first muster on the boat deck and during this time watched the ship pull away slowly from the pier down the North River, around the bend of Man- hattan Island, up the East River to Fort Schuyler, which was to be our home address for the following three months. We soon organized, stood regular Watches, attended class, did our ship s work and mess duty. It was on this good ship that we stood our first quartermaster watches on the bridge, our fireman and Water tender watches in the engine and fire rooms. We had some really practical seamanship classes, wherein our work took on an entirely new meaning. As engineers we studied the alittle blue bookso' and then put that information into use by tearing down and then putting back together again all the machin- ery of the engine room. Our machine shop was a wonderful aid to training, too. Ship's work was shipis work no matter how We looked at it, but it was during that time that we picked up angles, ideas and knacks of doing our job that would carry on for years. lt was here that we first chipped paint in large quan- tities, painted, holystoned, cleaned boilers, bilges and condensers to such an extent that we thought that we were masters of the art. Mess duty here was the easiest on record. And, speaking of mess, I could go for a plate of Pangello's spaghetti right now with plenty of meat sauce and grated cheese, or another Thanksgiving Day dinner as we enjoyed late in November, but no rowing afterwards, please. M ' an---ew rr 1 By the time we were ready to go back to Castine, we had our own Castine officers. We had become competent watch standers and had increased our understanding of our future positions to the ntl1 degree. After having spent our liberties in New York, we thought that we knew the big city well. We had completed an important period of our training successfully and were ready for whatever lay ahead. A 1 ,.,,. 5 . ,F .M . ,e ,WWF ily' Y .f s algifggggjts, em: 4 .s . W

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