SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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ly Une hundred and twelve years later, the chill still settles low over the same jul ol land and encircling Sound. Cadets bend low in the Inner Gorge during morning calisthenics and try to force their tired eyes to stay open. Suddenly the mist lifts . . , friendly British warships ride past in the well-buoyed channel going toward Hell Gate and numerous fishing boats bob gently in toward shore. The fort now has its historyg a history which has been written, far away from its historic site, by over a thousand graduates who have car- ried . . . on the proverbial seven seas, the tac- tical and human assets which they received while being trained at NYSMC. r. W--is 5 i Lg i' u f . . ,, fm, if ' ' ,ff 1'-.J A ,, , 16.4, 4'4'f,.,f?'.,7 7 1 7 gl , , ,4 , .e 1 M mf, , 1, 1 ' 1 , ' J 415 Machine Shop Behind the Armory. .:-1 Y

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1 , P '1' Q 'W 1 Yi 7 1 EMPIRE STA TE II 1946 1956 On Dec. 9, 1944 the l-lydrus CAKA 285 was commissioned. She was designed and equip- ped as an auxiliary combat cargo assault ves- sei. l-lydrus had a turbo-electric twin screw drive, a cruising range of 10,000 miles and a top speed of 18 knots. She was 426 feet long and displaced 6000 to 8000 tons. Her war service included duty with the Pacific 5th Fleet at Guadalcanal, Okinawa and l-lawaii. She served as a troop carrier to China. After her war service she was returned to the east coast for decommissioning. On March 26, 1946 the l-lydrus was turned over by the Navy to the War Shipping Adminis- tration who in turn turned over the l-lydrus to the N.Y.S. Maritime Academy -where she was renamed T. S. Empire State. As the Empire State it made its first post war foreign training cruise in 1946 followed by summer cruises until 1956. ...-