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

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 What is the Merchant Marine? The Merchant Marine is the fleet of ships which carries imports and exports during peacetime and becomes a naval auxiliary during wartime to deliver troops and war material. According to the Merchant Marine Act of 1936: “It is necessary for the national defense... that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...” Above: The Growler escorting the Kings Pointer. Left: Old Glory being proudly flown onboard the USNS Patuxent. ■Before the Birth of our NfltloiA-... Fact: Archeologists have found ocean- going ships dating back t o 2450 BC.

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 VViatt t Right: Midshipman conducting a fire drill during the Kings Point Spring Break Trip. Below . Christopher March connecting cargo hoses on the ITB Mobile. Bottom: Casey Dexter, Greg Van Lenten, Benjamin Earnest, and David Saville Aboard the Motor Vessel Tellus donning survival suits. How did the Men r - , Marine Begin in t United States? I off the coast of Me used the captured guns and ammunition from additional British ships as prizes. American privateers soon disrupted British — V shipping all along the Atlantic qg

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these or interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore —upon the watery plain The Wrecks are all they deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee- Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts —not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. And I have love thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror— twas a pleasing fear, For I was as if were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, and laid my hand upon thy mane—as 1 do here. Lord Byron ( Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ) deep vast ocean. Mariners would y to him for safe return to land. Above: Poseidon is the Ancient God of the Sea. He was believed to control every creature that lived in the