United States Merchant Marine Academy - Midships Yearbook (Kings Point, NY)

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CTA NON VERBA— deeds not words, our motto, our challenge and our trust. As graduates, and officers of this Nations mighty merchant fleet, touching countless ports in every land we are entrusted with the task of being to all the world democracy ' s ambassadors. In war, the means to victory; in peace, the means to abundant life. Carrying on the liighest traditions of selfless devotion to duty, the United States Merchant Marine stands in the service of our nation and the world. 1 :!

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Qn (he flying bridge of a plodding cargo vessel gliding through the waters of the calm Pacific, or in the chartroom of a superliner plowing through the heavy seas of a North Atlantic gale, the deck officer graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy is imbued with the resultant confidence of a nautical education encom- passing the necessary background in navigation, seamanship, cargo and related subjects to make him an officer second to none. All the facts of Marine Engineering are second nature engineering officer graduate of the United .States Merchant Academy. No engine room, from the mechanical .AMERICA to the complicated machinations of diese foreign to him. He is a polished product of the finest: institution of its kind in the world.