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

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With the war the facilities of the Academy were greatly increased. The shore base at Hyannis was acquired in 1941, so that many more badly-needed officers could be trained. After the war, in order to better qualify its graduates, the Academy developed a three- year course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Nautical Science. The present training-ship, the Charleston, was acquired from the Maritime Commis- sion in 1948, and in order to better acquaint the Midshipmen with shipboard conditions and maintain the ship, the school moved to its present location at Buzzards Bay, where the ship could most easily be moored.

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Massachusetts men have always been sea- farers. The state early saw the advantages inherent in Federal legislation to promote the training of merchant officers, and soon afterward instituted a school for this purpose. In 1892 the first class of cadets was selected and embarked in the USS ENTER- PRISE for their training, the first of more than three thousand men who have served their country well in war and in peace. The ENTERPRISE was replaced in 1909 by the bark RANGER, later renamed NANTUCKET, which served the school well through the long years until the second World War made expansion imperative.

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THE SUPERINTENDENT Rear Admiral Julian D. Wilson, USN (Retired] Graduating from the Naval Academy in June, 1917, Admiral Wilson served in the NASHVILLE as division officer, in the BARKER as engineering officer and later executive officer, in the Black Sea and on the China station. Having met and married Mrs. Wilson in Manila, he went to the Academy as instruc- tor in ordnance and gunnery. A three-year tour of duty in the ARIZONA followed, and another assignment to the Academy. For the next two years he served as com- manding officer of the GOFF, and then of the WORDEN for a similar period. Next came a tour as Inspector of Ordnance with the New York Shipbuilding Company. Again at sea, he took command of the tanker MATTOLE. After a short assignment as Commander Task Force 32, he was sent to the Office of Chief of Naval Operations. He then served as commanding officer of the MARYLAND. His last duty before appointment as Super- intendent of the Academy was as Executive Member, Ship Characteristics Board, Chief of Naval Operations.