Massachusetts Maritime Academy - Muster Yearbook (Buzzards Bay, MA)

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i-iisrokr or THE MZADJEMY JJ, 7' Massachusetts is a state of seafarers - of Whalers, merchantmen, and clippers. Hence it was logical for her to establish her own N autical School in 1891. The school's first ship, the bark ENTERPRISE, set out on her voyages in 1893 with the first class to start the two-year course leading to a maritime career. In 1909 the RANGER, a barkentine, replaced the ENTERPRISE. Renamed the NANTUCKET by the Navy, she served the school faithfully for many years until World War II, when she was retired from active service and sent to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the Government shortened the course to sixteen months and increased the enrollment, in order to pro- vide more skilled officers for our desperately-needed ships. To accom- modate these additional men the Academy had to have a shore base. In July, 1942, the site at Hyannis was occupied. MeanWh1lC cruises were made in Maritime Commission ships. With the end of the war great changes occurred. A new three-year curriculum was introduced, and the class of 1949 was the first to r6- ceive the degree of Bachelor of Nautical Science under it. On the 1948 cruise the Academy sailed to San Francisco to board the new ship, the USTS CHARLESTON Qex-PG-51 Proudly WC sailed her home to Buzzards Bay and tied her up at the State Pier, her permanent berth. At the end of the 1949 cruise, which took us all around the Carib- bean and to New Orleans for Mardi Gras the location of the Academl' . , 9 u , yvas shifted to the State Pier. Now great plans are under consideration or expansion of facilities here. h In our time we have seen the old school carry on her function and s ow r ' enewed vigor. Long may she prosper. M it 1' . . 5 fd-1-1 H ., f , f in ' 1, 5 'W Q... rg' . X Piilgx, r g M ? M Q, Y,'P ' y gl . alt A ,ggw ig, 1 2 s , 4 f, 14, 3,fg W K , lr i ' l,,3?Z74rZ 5, X oi' Z fifty iw' fa f 49

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