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

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With the imminence of war, the facilities were greatly increased by the acquiring of the shore base at Hyannis in 1941. Throughout these trying years the importance of the school was realized as the graduates proved their capabilities in the US Navy and the Merchant Marine. In 1948 the Midshipmen of Massa- chusetts Maritime Academy traveled to San Francisco and boarded our present training ship, the gunboat CHARLESTON which we acquired from the Maritime Commission. Re- turning to Cape Cod, it was found that the CHARLESTON could most easily be moored at the State Pier in Buzzards Bay. After altering the building on State Pier into classrooms the Academy was relocated there, with plans under consideration for the further develop- ment of dormitory, laboratories, and office facilities.