9ieLOOKOUT HERE IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY to make a contribution to our funds while actually spending money for your own needs. The Institute has been invited The Lookout to share in the proceeds of Lewis & Conger's annual " Name-Your-Own-Charity VOL. XLIV February, 1953 NO. 2 Sale, " which lasts throughout the month of March. When you make purchases at their store, located at Sixth Avenue and 45th Street, please mention the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and we will receive from the store / ' 1 0"10 of the total amount you spent for your own needs. Please tell your .",; t,;. friends about it. ," -d 'O r --- !l-~ -
1llllim! !. int' Ph M(} VOl. XLIV FEBRUARY. 1953 Th e Andrea Dorio decked out for her debut, Copyright 1953 by the Seamen's Church Instit.ute of /\' ew rork Debut of the Andrea Doria $ 1.00 per year Wc per copy Published Monthly Gifts of $5.00 per year and over include a year's subscription ROrDLY bearing the distinction of automatic depth ounding meler and an a transatl antic first: an "emerald electronic eye \ hich gives her a \' i!'i ibilily CLARENCE G. MlCHALlS THOMAS ROBERTS P President Secretary and Treasurer liled sw imming pool" for each passenge r of 40 miles under any co ndilions. Her REV. RAYMOND S. HALL, D.O. TOM BAAB cia s- a splendid blow Ior democracy two groups of turbi nes and twi n 18-lon Director Editor the S .5. Andrea Doria of the Ita li an Li ne propell ers cul a 50,000 h.p. brin y swath .
Entered ttJ Jtcond dan maller, Jill>, 8, 1925 at New York, N. Y., ~nd" arriyed here in all her luxuriou maiden The A ndrea Doria's 30,000 ton repre· the acl 0/ March 3, 1879 ly spl endor. sent a ubstantial stride forward in Italy's A ddreJJ all commlinicationJ to efforts to rebuil d her merchant Reet. She is the most beauteo us Ita li an to Boa ting a speed potential of over 25 SEAME N'S CH U RCH I NSTITUTE OF NEW YORK grace our hores in twenty year !> and. kn ots, the liner, which in minialure at 25 South Street, New York 4, N. Y. holding court in lew York f OT a week. tracted so much awed atten ti on at the Telephone BOwli ng Green 9·2710 bedazzled visitors wi th her wonders. SCI booth at th e Mo torboat Show, will They gazed at paintings, peeked in to be a Tew York· Mediterranean express. taterooms and clambered over pre-fab· The Andrea. Doria. combines her me· ricated bridges. Ol d Andrea Doria him chanical effi ciency with overwhelmi nO' elf, th e great Genoe e Admiral, could THE COVER : According to veteran ice patrol men of the U. S. Coast Guard, not have been more im pre sed. elegance. Even New Yorkers were im· " The only sure sign of an iceberg is to see it!" The Coast Guard' annually, pressed wi th her private promenade deck. through its International Ice Patrol, conducts an iceberg census . The figure Worthy of the atomic age, she utilizes reserved for dogs. Canine, howe\'er, do usually exceeds 40,000. a co mplete meteorological tation, an not have a wi mming pool. The file removed from the drawer be men's Ch urch In ,,;t ilute upon hi , an'intl que~lioning o( Ih o::;e inlerested in locat low can be call ed that of Earl ?lIabbott. in l\ew York. \"X 'hen he does ~o_ T\ Ir ~ . in g the seaman. l\Irs. \Ve"sel and her ,.; laFf It is taken to the office of l\Ir-. Shirley We!'sel \I·ill. wilh skill and oelicac)'. help ran o[t en not onl y di ,;co \'er \'aluable clue" Wessel, head o[ th e :Yl i5s in g Seame n' ~ him to sun'ey hi s si luation wilh an eye to hi s po ,.;s ibl e w h e r eabo ul ~. but can al"o They Wait Bureau al Ihe Institute. On her desk i" a 10 pulling hi s mother at ease and gelling freq uen lly eslabli "h th e moti\'e ullde rly nell' leIt er in th e Mabboll ca -e. himseJ[ off th e hook. A fell' l e rror ~ \I ill in g the man'" di;;appearanc~. Thi" i" im for Clues i\Iahbotl is a yo un g fellow \Iho prob shrink to th eir proper ",ize and certain portanl 10 kn Oll" . if the Bureau is to ap ablv decided on a Thur~dav that he co nsi derations will come more sha rpl y proach hi III effecI i\'el y when co nl act is wo~ ld go to sea, for it \I as on'a \Vedne,; into focus. In all probability Earl will es lah l i~hed. This co nt act is often made day thnt he thorou o- hly em harrassed him make a trip home be [ore he ship:; oul by lell er and it is imperntive Jor th e ,;e lf in a bil o( horseplay th aI cau:;ed a again - if he ooe!' ship out again . Rureau to demonstrate Ihat it ha,; "Ollle platform baggage truck to gel :;mashed IllustratiYe of th e work of the Bureau. th .ing to oiTer in Ih e \1 ay of under::; tand by a freight Irain at th e railroad station Earl's case is not quite like any other. inf! and good sense thal will help Ih e 1\ the quiet file room of the In~titut e"::; in hi :; home town. lL even made the ~Ir s . Wessel finds each to be a separale ,eaman settle hi s problem. Once a miln 1:\li~sing Seamen's Bureau, sleel cahi paper:; in Akron. it \1 a:; so terrible. Earl problem. They may seem si mila r, as fin is assured th at he i:,n't go in g to he -' rail nets, stiff and tall , press thou sand~ and sneaked out of town and hi :; worried buI gerprint;:; 00. yel each is a diITerent bleno roaded around" by Ihi" Bureau th aI ha;.; thou~:tnds of human drama:; again~t one humilialed parents remarked 10 neigh of Ihe many forces and in/1uence" Ih at :; lI(ldenl y butleo into hi , life. he usuall y another in manila folders. These are th e bors that he had gone to spend the sum Ilork Lo shape human destinie . welcome,; th e opporlunily to lalk O\'er ~ea r{"li records kept 011 mi~si ng seamen. mer with an uncle in Memphi,; - a~ he Hardly eyer are th ese case,; the result hi , problem with someone \1 ho ~eel11S 10 Here in the dark of this long windowless had aC lu all y planned lo do. of simple mischance: a man does nol kno\\" something al out it. room they wait for clue ', a nd the silence become separated from hi s famil y and From thi s point on il 's a 001 nhill pull. seems to carry an expectant, sympath eti c In two weeks the parents got a lelle r mailed from ;\ew York sayin g that he fri ends in Ih e same accidental. rarele;;s fo r ~ilualions ha\"e a way of sounding hum. was go in g LO ship out to sea and nol 10 Ila\' in \Ihich he loses Irack of his [ou n diITerenl when yo u lalk aloud aboul them Suddenly a key rallies loud and brillie worry. The fath er's altitude was --LeI tai;1 pen or hi s pocket ("omb. l' "uall y Ih e 10 another person . You begin 10 hrar in the lo ck and th e door open" with a \'our:
3 Why I Go to Sea By Irving B. Benton
II{ ST : restle:i~ne,;;;. Xo. J'm not chas the ~VleditelTanean. We reach England, F in g rainiJo\ s, for I have found the CT loomy und austere and go on to un pot of ~o ld . Do you men ti on Abadan. happy Germa ny and then to li ght-hearted, land of oi l a nd heat, on the E uplnate" vibrant France. with i t~ I erdant fig trees on the Iraq side Now let u ' CTo to South America, to and the lIildem ess on the Iran ian front CO I'ena , Coll1~lbia, where the trail i:< age? Here on the Persian Culi will he .~o r our" h we must ride horse back. On dust ,; to rms, white fine choking salld : to la nds with more revolutions than a ancl on I he Arabian side, I{as Lanum, ship's propell er. Then we a re.i n Panama, lancl ruled by King Iben Saud. absoluLe where the mechanie-al " mules" pull us monarth wilh ol'er one hundred wive' thro u CT h the locks of the canal. And nOli land of uil and cruelt y, where (or petty we a r~ in J apan, land of ener geti c little the ft the culprit loses hi s ri ght hand men and lady stevedores. My Ni pp o ~l ese I hi ch j, displayed in th e public squur friend in Kobe hold my hand whIle I as all'urning. wait for th e last "Liberty Boat" before Co ntinuing on our journey, we pa::i ' we sail. Japan: land of fra il beauty. Final· through th e Hed Sea. land o f the Bible ly, Vancoul'er and then th e . S. Yes, and \11. Sillai. From th ere through the here is one reason \ hy I CTO to sea Suez in Egypt, where the "than ges fo r romance, glamour und adventure. changes" trade r:; would muke Ali Baba';; Second: danger. Cha:ied by a gub, "an/! look like genllemen. Or let us go ridin CT walers infested \\ ith mines, load- A Second 'Jonah and the b . • ~n to I ta Ir: \' aples, a ce::ispoo l by reason ed with CTaso line or tran portJl1g muni- Whale' Legend o( unemployment ; Vesuvius, aL whose ti ons, jm~ o biliz ed in the Bay of Fundy foot sleeps the "Buried Cit y" Pompeii; at 10 degrees below zero. where Ih e mud where we see the smoking Stromboli and hooks won't hit bottom und the little Eaf the Ih ings thai has alway" fa - However, there is one ca e on com ," isil the Eternal Cit y. From there on La " Iaker" r oll " and jJi t(" hes and the pota Dcinated landsmen and sailors alike paratively recent records that would serve the Africlln sh ore a nd to th e beautiful toes wash up and down the companio ll ' ha' been the quality of the unknown that to keep alive these di cussions. The cen, ciLy o f Bone in French Algeria. We pause way and the mes' room Ooor is a sea still surrounds the sea. Even with the ad tral1i.gure in the drama was an unknown at Gibraltar, the :· Rock"· guardian o f of glass. SUCTar. pickle"' and what not. Or I ent of the va ri ous scientific devices whaler, J ames Bartley. racin o- for port with a hole in our boLtom which claim to probe the very depths of Bartley was a crewman on a typical after t">tryin o- to sail over . the Aleutian the sea there have always been, and per nilleteenth century whaler, the Star 0/ l{eeC;;. Or the ·torms: willd a t 100 mile hap ' a lw ays will be, certain question the East. He was servi ng aboard her in an h our in the Caribbean, and in Lh e about the sea that cannot be answered. th e year 1891 when the event that caused ~ I a m and pitch a nd to s you don't sleep. Since the days when the earl y seamen the entire world to wonder, took place. went down to the sea in vessels that were Or riding out the heavy seas in the ~or th At the time, the Star 0/ the East wa Atlantic, the eternal fog and the, hi stl e just sli ghtly larger thall a present-day earching the South Atlantic for the valu "oil1 CT e\"e ry three minute ' . At "uch time ' lifeboa t. Ihe real or imagined monsters able blubber and whale oil. Her lookout r c u ~~e th e 'ea and :;wear that if [ see of the deep have been subjects of di scus up on the mast ighted th e large rounded 'land I will neyer CTO back. Yet one m onth sion a nd speculation by both sailors and I lack back of a whale breaking the ur later find me back. for such is human landsmen. face of the sea off the Falkland Island " peJ"I"ersity. Yes, I ao to sea because [ like Speculation about how a man wo uld and hurried preparations were made for danger ' J Iik e to pi t m y puny strength [are in relation to one of the e monsters the attack. again ::; t the element;; - to tuke a chance. is a to pi that has appealed to man's As the Star 0/ the East got closer, the imagin a ti on, and has been purred by crew determined that they were closing Third: spiritual. Come. stand on Lh e the Biblical story of J onah a nd the whale. on a Cachalot Whale, the lar ge t type in fan"tail of a great ship in the vastnes of T he size of these ocean goli ath has made the lI'hale family, and that thi s particular the ocean a nd watth the un sink below man wonder whether he could actuall y whale wa a giant among giants. The the horizo n. A sense of loneliness per· live within their bodies. hulking back looked more like a fair- va des one. yet I am not alone for I talk (Con tinued on Page 11 ) 4 (Cufllillll ed 011 p {/~t' 11 ) 5 FLEETS UP - TRADE DOWN assi:; tance and recoglliLi on of th e Tramp to daLe indi cate,; th at 1953 \I'ill be a FRENCH LINE MOVES fl eeL a~ a source of emergency aid to Lh e "boom year" for naturalizalion. Many \~ 'hil e 1952 proled to be an unpropi INTO SECOND PLACE of Lh ese seamen, who oft en find it dirTi tious year [or ship!Jin g the Il'orld oyer, nation. The fit -- L iLem of business on Lhe agenda, of course, will be the eff ort Lo cult lo reconstrucL Lh eir shipping hislo An el'id ence of remarkable p o~ L - 1I a r th e drop 1I<1S not reAeded in Lonnage re ri es with the ac:curacy required by th e recovery_ th e French lin e has regain ed dud ion. On th e co ntra ry, building \las convin ce th e 'avy's :\filiLa ry Sea Trans porLa Li on Sen 'ice Lo up it s daily raL e from law. enli ,' L th e experi enced help of the -ec-ond place in th e number o[ passenge r:; hi gh throughout th ~ year as nation,; con Per onal Servi ces Department in yerify ca rri ed back and forLh aero:;:; th e \ orll1 tinued Lo seek equilibrium with pre-war $1.475 a da y Lo a minimum of $1.600. in g dates and in securing the documenl s AtlanLi c, fn Iad , as reported by Jean co ndiLi ons. The Western Hemi sphere_ 'i' hi efTort I~ ; as ca rri ed on during th e lasL Con gressional essjon and will be rel'il ed and affid aviL s needed to supporl their Marie. president of th e French Lin e_ Lh e ~o r e l y hit b~ ' the decline in commerce in applications, merchant Aeet 01 France operate,; 1'18 1952. nO\l' find s ibelf caught up with l ' i O' orou ~ l y as th e Co ngress of th e new adminiSLrati on Lakes ol er. ships today, a gain of 118 I ' es,;e l~ over post·\\ ar e xpan ~ ion pl ans and is currenL Lh e pre-wa r number. Iy cOIl l:e rn ed \I i Lh ho\\ to keep her e:- tab A major seLb ack to th e 1952 reco rd I i"hed f1 ee t ~ in action. MORE RED TAPE RABBITS UNLUCKY? \I a ~ th e cripplin g 01 the Flandre, lu xury The LaLin-Ameri ca n fl eets, of c our ~e, AnoLh er seL of Li ghtening ecuriL}' re passen ger ve"sel, on the morn of ils dehut An Engli sh ma o- azine, Th e Messenge r, il'ere children of the war \I hen tho ~e na sLri clions, Lh ese gO"erning ships moyin g in Ae'" York's harbor la t fall. The noted in a recent article on superstition:; tion s could find no foreign ve::;oels to in the P anama Canal Zone. has been an Flandre j" due lor a reinlrodu ·ti on in ca rry th eir go od ~; howel'er, in continu Lh al " R a bbiL ~ are anathema Lo fi shermen, nounced bv J. S. Seybold. Coyernor of April. in g th eir build-up to the end of ] 952, and even the use of th e word is ~ aid to Lh e Can al Zone. l ' nder the new regula th ev have se n -ed noti ce of their intent bring bad lu ck. I f they are spoken of aL ti ons_ capt::rin s o[ ye; SEA FEVER AL WAYS THE MEDITERRANEAN Said the sailor, " I've had my fill of play, By A. H. Rasmussen By Max Miller, U.S.N.R. I' m shipping out to sea today, Thomos Y. Crowell Co mpa ny, $3.00 E. P. Dutton & Co., $3.50 But I've no heavy weather gear A true account of on e man's lifetim e IOl e This is a sketchy travelogue of the :Xlediter· And sailing's roug h this time of year. affair with the ea, thi s is an enjoyable yarn, ranean, with footnotes on it antique lore ir engagin gly written. T he thrills and the heart· reverently juxtaposed with the pre. ent-day I need ten fi sh and have only a fin acbe of a sailin g I'e sel's duel with the ele· For rubber to cover my precious skin." ments in far-ofT (' Iimes ure described with spirit acti vities of the al'y's Sixth F leet in the ~ am e area. It is abundantly ev ident that :\lr. Mill er His buddy, the bosun, at once replied and good humor. is, as Walter Karig observes in hi foreword It also relates the sad tale of the coming of " I'll show you how to dress your hide ~ to the book, a "plain stea k-and·potatoes Am eri · the modern steamship, "hkh so unded the can in all taste . ." Xerxes, Alexander, Cleo· deathkne ll of the proud and heautiful sail· Five buck 's enough to make it stick patra, Ma rto Polo. t. Peter and the fun·l ol·ing ing shi ps. ;\lAf~ TUKE If we shuffle the deck and deal it quick. " American boy sail through the book on each other's coattail ·. They went a piece along the line THE BEAUTIFUL SHIP T. H. R. And stopped before a " We buy, " sign. By John B. Prescott The oilskin s draping a dummy outside Lo ngmans, Green & Co., $2.50 Were e qual to this sailor's p ride. The jacket , ays this i a story "uo; clean and BEYOND HORIZONS The p rice tag read, "Nine, ninety-eight," Rtimu lating as th e la ke water; it \, ill speak to By Carleton Mitche ll But the bosun said, " He' ll swallow t he bait." all that is fin e and manl y in every boy wh o reads it." w. W. Norton & Compony, Inc., $3.95 With a twinkling eye and a widespread grin P erhaps that best desc ribes the motil·ation Captain Bligh's own bitter account of the They soon d isrobed t he mannequin. of thi unpretenti ous little story of a young Boun ty mutiny and the dramati c rescue of fisherman beset by un avory villa in s, in the Dreaming of wealth beyond his share Alexander Selkirk ( Robin ~o n Crusoe) are I est juvenile adventure tradition. Unfortu nate amon ,T the sea classics hrought to rugged, roa r· They found t he dealer asleep in his chair. ly, th e "Beautiful hip" and the sea are no in g life by a man "ho kn ow. and loves the sea. more than ba ckdrops for Eric and the ba d men. " Avast!" cried t he bosun, shaking the man 1\1. S. Strea mlined Jor today's reader, these tales pro· vide a rare and exciting in ight into a time " Appraise t hese skins fast as you ca n ' THE PARTISANS when seamen had to be bo ld adventurers, and I'm off to make a pierhead bert h ' each voyage was an f'xcur ion into the Ull· So sing out quick iu st what they're worth ." By Fred Kraav known . Good illustrati ons. Vo ntoge Press, Inc., $3.75 :'If. s. "I buy and I sell, " said that worthy man Written hy a man with a deep, abiding hatred But I'm loaded now like a moving van. ' for co mmuni m, thi i the story of a partisan Four dollars, not a penny more; warfare against the overwhelming odds of a THE OCEAN RIVER : Russian occupati on fOf('e on an island in the Take it or leave it, there's the door." Baltic. Realistically told, hard hitting, it paints The Story of the Gulf Stream " Sold!" cried the bosun with a w ink a bitter picture of tbe plight of the freedom· By Henry Chapin and F. G . Walton Smith " And we've still got a buck to buy a' drink." . tarved thousanrls unrler th e communist heel. 1\1. S. Chorles Scri bn er's Sons, $3.50 By Charl es E. G rant TEMPTRESS RETURNS H ere is a well written and technically ound di cu ion of one of the great wonder of na· 3rd Engineer By Edward C. Allcard ture, the phenomenon of the tremendous cur W. W. Norton & Campany, Inc., $3.75 rent which stirs the orth Atlantic Ocean. Mol' in g a volume of water equal to that of a thou· Take one .l ack :\rmslrong type character, sand M i s~ i ss ippi s at Rood·tide, the Gulf Stream one .3 4 fo ot yawl, p ice well with some obliging has had in alrulable in nuences on the histOlT hurncanes, top ofT with a heauteous gal stow and civilizati on of the lands borderi ng i t '~ away, and what have you go t ? A sadly unpalat course. able aJad. E ven the dressing of an awesom e vocabuJary can scarce conceal the comic·book A fascinatin g book, The Ocean River is a plot. pro duct of our ever· deepening knowl edge of It is based, they say, on an actu al voyage. the phy ical world in whi ch we live. M. S. 1'. H. R. 12 SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK BOARD OF MANAGERS H o Ilorel 1')' PreSldellt RT. REV. HORACE W. B. Do EGAN, 0 .0 President CLARENCE G. MICHALIS Clericf" Vice·Presidell/s RT. REV. BENJAMIN M . WASHBURN, D .O . VERY REV. JAMES A. PIKE, JR., S·l.D· RT. REV:' CHARLES K. GILBERT, D .O . REV. LOUIS W. PITT, D .O. REV. FREDERICK BURGESS R EV. ARTHUR L. KINSOLVING. 0 .0 REV. ROEUF H. BROOKS, S .T.D. REV. JOHN E. LARGE, D .O. REV. JOHN HEUSS, JR., D.O. R EV. JOHN M. M ULLIGA N REv. A NSON P. STOKES, JR. Lay Vice·PresidelllS GERALD A. BRAMWELL THOMAS ROBERTS HARRY FORSYTH ORME \X' ILSOK Secrelary alld Trellsllrer THOMAS ROBERTS Assis/alll Secretelr)" GORDON FEAREY Assislallt Trec/JIlrer, BENJAMIN STRONG, JR. WILL lAM ARMOUR ARTHUR Z. GRAY \X' ALTER B. Pons EDWARD]. BAR.BER FRANK GULDEN FRANKLIN R EM INGTON EDWARD ]. BARBER, JR. CHARLES S. HAIGHT P," UL R r,NS HAW EDWIN D E T . BECHTEL GERARD HALLOCK JOHN S . ROGERS REGINALD R. BELKNAP AUG USTUS N. HAN D WILLIAM D . RYAN GORDON K NOX BELL THOMAS L HIGGINSO N CHARLES E. SALTZMAN GORDON K NOX BELL, JR. OLIVER ISELIN JOHN JAY SCHIEFFELIN CHARLES W. BOWRING, JR. ELLIS K NOWLES THOMAS A . Scon CHARLES B. BRADLEY LAMAR RICHARD LEAHY HERBERT L SEWARD JOHN MASON BROWN CLIFFORD D. MALLORY, JR. LEONARD SULLIVAN LLOYD H. DALZELL RICHARD H. MANSFIELD CARll TUCKER CLEMENT L. DESPARD W . LAWRENCE McLANE ALEXANDER O. VIETOR CHARLES E. DUNLAP CHARLES MERZ FRANKUN E. VILAS CALVIN T. D URG IN CLARENCE F . MICHALIS FRANK W. WARBURTON DE COURSEY FALES GEORGE P. MONTGOMERY EDWARD K . WARREN F. RICHARDS FORD JOHN LEWIS MONTGOMERY \' R EV. RAYMOND S. HALL, D.o., Director CHAPLAIN FRANCIS D . 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