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

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COMMAND Captain Louis A. Woodland, USNR Executive Officer Ship Construction Instructor Captain Woodland graduated from the Massachusetts Nautical School, in 1929, the top man in his class. He started his career at sea as junior deck officer aboard U.S. Line ' s famous LEVIATH- IAN. He also worked for the Grace Lines, sailing to South Amer- ica, before returning to the schoolship as an instructor in 1934. During World War II, he was on duty with the Navy in the Pacific in various capacities including Executive Officer aboard an attack transport. After the war he returned to the Maritime Academy to work his way to the upper echelon of the adminis- tration of the school where he is now Executive Officer. Among his many qualifications, Captain Woodland has a Bach- elor of Science Degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and holds a Master ' s license. Commander James M. Murray, USNR Chief Engineer Instructor of Thermo Dynamics, Steam Engines, and Atomic Power The BAY STATE ' S Chief Engineer graduated from an earlier Massachusetts schoolship, the famous NANTUCKET in 1935. Upon receiving his Marine Engineer ' s License, Cdr. Murray sailed with Eastern Steamship and Cities Service, and by the time he was 25 years old he had his Chief Engineer ' s License. Entering the Navy as a Lieutenant (jg) in 19 42, he saw action in many of the major campaigns in the Pacific, including Okinawa and Guam. At the war ' s end, he left active duty with the Navy to become the Chief Engineer of the Maine Maritime Academy schoolship. Returning to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1947, Cdr. Murray became the school ' s Chief Engineer and he holds this position as head of the Academy ' s Engineering Department, as well as an unlimited Chief Steam and Diesel Engineer ' s License. Commander William J. Connors, USNR Navigator Navigation Instructor Commander Connors is another of the school ' s instructors who started his seafaring career at the Massachusetts Nautical School. He learned the ways of seamen aboard the NANTUCKET, and upon graduating in 1932, he went to sea with the American Ha- waiian Lines, as quartermaster. From American Hawaiian, Commander Connors went with Mallory Lines tankers working his way from third mate to chief mate. He has held for twenty years an unlimited master ' s license. He came to teach at the Massachusetts Nautical School in 1940 and stayed until 1942 when he went into the Navy as Executive Officer on the tanker NEOSHO. Several months later he was given command of the tanker NESPELEN and in her finished out the war. Commander Connors returned to the Maritime Academy in 1946 and is now head of the Navigation Department. 15

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COMMANDING OFFICER Meteorology Instructor It is certainly proper that a man who has spent many of his productive years working for the benefit of the Academy be the Com- manding Officer of its training ship. Captain Rounds graduated from the Nautical School in 1926 to sail aboard Standard Oil Company tankers, and several months later commenced a three-year stay with the United Fruit Company. Early in 1930, he returned to the schoolship, this time as an instructor. When the Navy took over the school in 1942, most of the officers were shifted to active duty. Such was the case with Captain Rounds, when he was made Exe- cutive Officer of an AKA and then an APA in the Pacific. Command of an APA followed, a post he held until his release from active duty and his return to the Academy in 1946. Not only does Captain Rounds have his Mas- ter ' s license for steam and diesel powered ships, but he is also one of the few men pres- ently holding a master ' s license from the Coast Guard for square rigged sailing vessels. -H ll 14

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SEAMANSHIP AND NAVIGATION LCDR. Lucian T. Page, USMS Third Division Officer Seamanship Instructor Mr. Page, an officer who has gained the respect of all who know him by reason of his professional skill, started his sea career aboard the NANTUCKET. Upon graduation in 1932, he went to sea for American Export Lines on one of the famous Four Aces. Leaving Export in 1935, he went into Isthmian around-the - world service finally becoming chief mate on the STEEL NAVI- GATOR. By 1940, Mr. Page had his Master ' s license and within two years had ascended to the top of the maritime profession, that of pilot on the Panama Canal. Mr. Page stayed on the Canal until 1948, when he returned to Massachusetts and the Maritime Academy. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the school in 1951. LCDR. Paul G. Hirst, USMS First Lieutenant Admiralty Law Instructor Mr. Hirst is a graduate of the Massachusetts Nautical School. He received his training on the NANTUCKET and upon gradua- tion in 1926, went to sea in the Merchant Marine. He has sailed in every capacity from seaman in the forecastle to chief mate; with Mallory Lines, Standard Oil Company of New- Jersey, Luckenback Lines, Sprague Steamship Company and Waterman Steamship Company. When the Second World War broke out, Mr. Hirst went to sea under the War Shipping Board in the North Atlantic and Medi- terranean areas, with a side trip to Murmansk in Russia. He then came ashore to teach nautical subjects in the Maritime Service Upgrade School in Boston. With this as a background, he operated the Bay State Navigation School for a year before reporting to the Maritime Academy in 1948. Mr. Hirst holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and is licensed as a Master in the Merchant Marine. Lt. Alan McNaughton, USNR Second Division Officer Communications Instructor Mr. McNaughton was in several Academy firsts. He was a first classman when the school made its first West Coast Cruise. The object of this cruise was, of course, to pick up the fondly re- membered CHARLESTON which was the school ' s first steamship. Upon graduation in 1949, Mr. McNaughton and his classmates were the first to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Academy. United States Lines followed the schoolship in Mr. McNaugh- ton ' s career. He sailed on their Australia-Far East run until 1954 when he went in the Navy for a two-year tour of active duty. After being released from active duty, he returned to the New England area to sail tankers for Boston Fuel Transport. In- cluding his Master ' s license and degree, Mr. McNaughton holds pilot ' s papers from Portland, Maine, to Providence, Rhode Island. 16