The Seamen's Church I PAGE 3 of New York and New Jersey, agency of the Episcopal in the Diocese of New York. is --- unique organization devoted MARITIME FRIENDS OF SCI the well-being and special interests of active merchant HONOR ROBERT T. YOUNG seamen. AT GALA DINNER More than 300,000 such seamen of all nationalities. The One of the highlights of the Institute's Under the able chairmanship of Mr. and creeds come into the Port ear is t he annual Gala Benefit Dinner J ohn J. Farrell , Jr. , President of Program New York every yea r. To many ~ i ven by the Maritim ~ Friends of the International Terminal Operating Co ., them the Institute is their shore Seamen's Church Institute. Inc., the evening was a notable success as of the center in port an d remains their This year's event was held at the Pierre more than 400 leading executives of the polestar whi le they transit the Hotel and the honored guest was Mr. maritime community gathered to wish Bob Institute Robert T. Young, recently retired distant oceans of the earth. and his lovely wife, Virgina, well. Chairman of the American Bureau of Featured entertainment for the evening First established in 1834 as a Shipping. Known and respected was the Fanfare Trumpets, Color Guard floating chapel in New York throughout the international maritime and Glee Club of the Un ited States harbor. the Inst itute offers a Wide community, it was during his tenure at ABS Merchant Marine Academy whose range of recreational, that the organi zation grew from a modest reputation was onl y exceeded by their educational, an d special servic bureau to t he foremost Ship Classification performance. Following the dinner, the Seamen's Church Mariners' Society in the World. Grant Calin Orchestra played for dancing Institut e of Inter national Center for the mariner, including New York and (SC I) in the Cotillion Room until the wee hours New Jersey Ports Newarkl counseling and the help of five making for a most memorable evening t 5 State Street Elizabelh, N.J. New York. N.Y. chaplains in emergency among Friends. situations. More than 3,500 ships with 140,000 men aboard annually Friends Dinner Chairman John J. Farrell, Jr.(left) in at Pts. Newark/Elizabeth. N, presents honored guest Robert T. Young with a I:OOK@UT where time ashore is extreme! unique pair of " mismatched" gold cufflinks_ One link was engraved with the logo of the American Vol. 70 No. 5 August-September 1979 limited . Bureau of Shipping , the other with the indicia of the SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE Here in th e very middle of t Maritime Friends of SCI. OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY huge sprawling Pts. Newark/ 15 State Street , New York, N.Y. 10004 Elizabeth pul sing with activity Telephone: (2 12) 269-2710 container-shipping , SCI has The Right Reverend Paul Moore , Jr., S.T.D., D.O., Honorary President provided an oasis known as John G. Winslow, President Mariners' International Center The Rev. James R. WhiUemore, Director which offers seamen a Carlyle Windley, Editor recreational center especially US ISSN 0024-6425 constructed, designed and operated in a special way for the

Publis hed bi -monthly with ex ceptio n 01 May and De­ very special needs of the men .An ce mber wh en monthly. ContributIons to the Sea­ men's Chu rch Institute of New Yo rk and New Jersey outstanding feature is a soccer of $5.00 or more incl ud e a year's subscri ption to The field (lighted by night) for games Lookoul. SlO gle copi es 50¢. Addit ional postage tor Canada. Latin America. Spain . $ 1.00: other foreign, between ship teams. 53.00. Second class postage paid at New Yo rk . N.Y. Although 60% of the overall In sti tute budget is met by . COVER: The liner NIEUW AM STERDAM in the Grand Harbour, Valel1a, Malta. from seamen and the public. Photo by Dennis Mansell. cost of special services from endowments an d contributions. Contributions © Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, 1979 tax-deductible. - PAGE 4 PAGE 5 ~------~~------Youngest Contributors to the Benefit. l\1ore on the Berengaria

When Willy and Abigail Lash saw their the cause, the children went to t h e irroo~ In response to our article on the We also want to thank Mr. Owen Banner parents dressed in evening clothes and and each soon returned with an enveloPe. . sentation of a lithograph of the of Long Beach, New York who donated a ready to leave for the evening, they Willy L. Lash of 151 East 79th St. N. Y.C ple'engaria to the Institute, we received a post card from the Berengaria to the naturally wanted to know where they were 10021 contributed 50¢ from his hard . Be~ber ofletters in reference to her. Since Institute. One one side is a handsome going. (Willy is seven and a half years old earned savings and Abigail, of the sarne n ~r brief biography on the vessel was colored picture of her and on the reverse is and Abigail is nine). address, graciously donated 60¢ from hel'8. Olll11l11 arized from a number of resource an abstract of her log for the week of Their father, Stephen, who is a member How's that for social responsibility? ~~ok s available in our library, we are February 6, 1935. It was on that crossing of the Institute's Board of Managers leased to print the following letter from a that she sailed from Cherbourg to the And, thank you very, very much ':"iIIy and ientleman who truly knows of what he explained that they were going to a benefit Ambrose Channel Lightship in 5 days 14 Abigail. speaks (writes). hours 09 minutes. dinner, carefully explaining what the word We might add , that it was because Mrs. "benefit" meant. Convinced of the merit of Dear Mr. Windley, Eugenia C. Sigel, a subscriber, passed her Reading The Lookou t always gives me a copy of The Lookou t to her neighbor, Mr. great pleasure. However, in the curr'ent Banner, that the postcard came to his issue the article on the Berengaria is in mind. So we also thank Mrs. Sigel and Other Young Friends error. It states: "With the end of mass heartily endorse pass along readership. immigration to the U.S. in 1921, the Other special fri ends of the Institute are Upon arri val they presented her with a Berengm'ia was used as a West Indies the students aboard t he SchoolshipJohn most generous donation to the Institute Cruise ship etc." This is not so. She did not W. Brown. A part of the city's Park West (particularly co nsidering that most of the enter the New York to Southam pton ?<.m until that year when she had been stud ents have limited means) High School, the John W. BroW1t is a overhauled and converted to an oil bu?-ner. former Liberty ship now used as a accompanied by the following letter. f made several trips on her between 1923 technical school for students who plan to go and1 929. She was awonde1ful ship but not to sea foll owing graduation. "The students of the Schoolship as fast as her younge?" sister, the M(~jes t ic Recently Zelda Mueller, Fund Raising John W. Brown, as future seamen, which was at that tim e com peting with the Director for Maritime Friends, and an realize the good works that the SCI Mau r-etania f or the "Blue Ribbon of the ardent supporter oftheJohn W. Brown does for seamen all over the world. Atlantic." In the depression years, she did As a token of our respect and received a call from one ofthe students make some cruises to the West Indies. esteem for the Seamen's Church asking if several of them could visit her at Institute, the Schoolship students the Institute. Sincerely, have gotten together through the Fenwick W. Wall co llection of money, a donation to the SCI. The money was collected by the class delegates on the Schoolship. It represents t he good feeling that all the Schoolship st udents have toward our good friends at the SCI.

Sincerely yours, Steve Jordan Senior Class President

Thank eachand eve1'Y one of you . Yow' support means a great deal to us all.

The Berengaria PAGE 6 PAGE 7

SEAMEN'S SPORTS WEEK "MORRY," YOU MADE IT A GREAT SUCCESS Editor's Note: It was a rough and tumble, highly while soccer teams played "round robin" Recently we received a sheaf of poems competitive and most enjoyable week at for the winner's spot. Clubhouse from a Mr. L. Morrison (or "Morry," as he the Mariners' International Center in Pt. camaraderie was as enthusiastic as the prefers to be called. ) We were most Newark as the Annual International games themselves, as teams relaxed after intrigued by them. Not because they were Sports Week got underway June 28- the meet. exceptional poems but because they July 3. seemed to chronicle a seafarer's life and Sponsol:ed by the Norwegian Seamen's were fill ed with such a quality of honesty Service Agency in conjunction with the One of the many soccer matches plaYed and joy of living that we decided to print Seamen's Church Institute, the clubhouse under the lights during International SPOrts some of them. was filled late each afternoon with crew Week at the Mariners' International Center in We also wrote the poet. The following Port Newark. In the background Is an exam­ members from numerous ships as teams ple of the hundreds of sheds and loading Jetter, poems and photos are all his. We made ready for the track and field events. areas for containerships that border the hope you enjoy the whole melange and Lights burned late into the evening Ports Newark/Elizabeth waterfront. "Marry," we are pleased to say that you're finally in print.

Dear Editor, Could, possibly, the enclosed be of interest to you ? "Dear Mr. Morry," Thank you for the 3 new additions to your co llection "Songs 0' the Sea" - you have painted fine word pictures of your experiences. I Morry as a young seaman certainly admire your ability to stick to t he with his dog "Tex," smiling. truth. And as you say the truth usually makes for unusual subject matter. - Keep up the good work! Sincerely, Virginia S. Brigs -Editor - The Lookout. " wo uldn't want to change that period for all ... and this letter written Aug. 22, of the go ld in Ft. Knox. Yes, and co uld you 1960 I'm afraid that I can't recall the titles believe this? Most of the time I kept a of the rhymes I submitted - but I know running log account of my various voyages. that more of these were included needless Then I do excerpts from my personal logs to say - I've never been published! Unless and my verses match up (see "Garden someone soon recognizes the quality of my Bridge") both covering the same event." "work", why there's a good possibility that A~d ifthe above be not unusual (log this s a~e "Morry" fellow will never get and poetIc efforts) I even carried a camera mto prmt! A crime, that, no? aboard ship all through the war. Had it Actually, I have written we ll over wrapped in oilskin , in my back pocket even 200 poems, mostly shott ones (16 lines) as I swam about in the Indian Ocean at the and, perhaps, twenty, 30? are, as I prefer time of the torpedoing of the S.S. Dee?" to call them "Sea songs." They deal with Lodge, Feb. 17, 1943 and off So. Africa. As my years as a seaman from 1935 - 1952. a result pictures of the "Lodge" about to They a.re, in the main auto-biographi cal, as (continued) I saw It, so have I written it down! My rhymes are strictly based on so me event or adventure that happened to me during my seafaring days. And I ______PA_ G~E__ 8 ______PAGE 9

head for "Davey Jones locker" and of my good hurricane photographs (Seasto " shipmates manning the lifeboats! Yes, I I got them, too! rrn ). as the event occurred. "Star one another I could see myself after fully 20 have all sorts of records of then. Yes and ("Deer Lodge") (cr ex act~:, that was the way of it, back during years of waiting, in print! You on the other As for the enclosed poems. Yes, I out, purpose I y.') re I ates the Occasiono s hed w a~ '2 and afterwards when I was the hand, could, perhaps gain something by have been "Stranded." 2 mos. of living at that Nazi sub caught up with us just bWf en W; '5· navigator. "G~rden Bridge" the !og having this same "Morry" fellow's poems in Port Elizabeth, So. Africa as an daylight on that fateful morn. We we ore slu P . t attached to It more or less, verIfies your "Lookout." At least I feel that you exc~~P 111" yes? I didn't really dream it all ex-patrioted seaman (we just couldn't get heading for Alexandria, Egypt via th~ the ya could do worse. You wonder at that? home!) and I have climbed the foremast Panama Canal and around Cape Horn and In any case here's thanking you in during the worst storms in order to shoot all alone, no escort! But the poem tells it up! And that's about it, except that I'm advance. oft he opinion that might we be of help to Sincerely - L. Morrison (Morry)

SEAFARIN'

To have run off to sea - Is to have listened to the rhythm of the sweeping waves To have understood why a ship behaves To have thanked your lucky star - while down on one knee.

To have followed the sea- Is to have stood the good watch - day after day And to have envied the porpoises - so adept at their play To, maybe, have given a little thought to the POWER THAT BE l

To have put your time In at sea Is to have knocked around In a variety of ports To have rubbed elbows with men of all sorts To have enjoyed the sensation of having been free!

Ah, but - never to have shipped out on the "briny deep" Is to have never really lived - the Ideal life Nor to have gotten completely away from storm and strife STRANDED To never have fully awakened from an over sleep! "Morry" FREIGHTER - rusty and unGodly slow And pausing only to let the pilot go Please! - can't you stop her, somewhere, on this side of that wreck? At least, long enough for me to make it on deck TOO LATE, BORN

TANKER - silently, slipping past Clean of hull and extremely fast You can have you 01' sky-scrapers your giant 'bridges et al Tell me - why do you feel you just can't afford - Just give me the things that come - well, more natural! To have even one extra hungry mouth aboard? Such as a vivid rainbow - the sun having poked through Or a thunderous surf, with plummeting terns in view! SCHOONER - heading on out to sea With sails all set and running free Give me a full-throated trout brook about the middle of May Won't you bring her about and tack Or a Lake edged In flame, on a bright Autumn day To take me back - HOME? Or even a mountain-slashing a big hole in the sky - Or yet, a stand of pines, with a fresh breeze "rustlln" by PASSENGER VESSEL - alongside and roomy Pray, and what reason do you have to keep me gloomy? God's creatures, too, are a prime favorite with me Oh, you would see to it that I got to the states - Acolt (a lilegsl) galloping round and round - skittishly And at the present low rates? Amopey "01 ' Dick" broaching right alongside -uh-no thanks', I guess I'll just have to walk! One of manklnds uninhibited out sunning her lithe hide! "Morry" Yes, I just, naturally, lean toward nature's own handiwork! Her unspoiled rivers - her hidden woods - where too few of my It Id friends stili lu rk ~ all of which gives me grave concern - regarding her present state - • ioOUld It be I was born a full century or two, too late? PAGE 10 PAGE 11

About the Book of Remembrance

The Director The late Martha and Stephen Comstock day; and, so shall it be, in perpetuity. of the weI 'e devoted supporters of the. Institute . The Institute is pleased that others ha ve Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey whOwant ed others also to contribute to Its found the Comstock's benevolent project asks you to consider a major commitment ork. To encourage this, they proposed an appropriate and gratifying way to honor to an important event in your life ";ving the Institute a special Book of some loved one or cherished event, while at and ~ern ernbrance ba~ed o~ the ea:lier the same time supporting its ministry to in the life of the Institute t ·adition of hand Illummated BIbles. seamen. a I The purpose of the book was to provide Some people have done so through the rneans whereby an individual or family defened gifts, bequests, endowments or Memorial Page in could preserve in perpetuity the memory other special plans. During the years 1979 ofa special day, person or event plus that and 1980, each $35,000 Book of The Institute's of the donor. Remembrance gift will be matched in equal In return for an inscribed page in the amount by a grant from the Vincent Astor BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE book, the contributor would donate to the Foundation, Thus each gift will yield Institute, the capital required to yield the $70,000 for the Institute, ~ difference between the Institut.e:~'s~~~ .. ,,, ...... ~ ..•.. Donated by Martha and Stephen Comstock this book is an appropriate way to perpetually honor a loved one or event while supporting the work of the Institute

In 1979 and 1980 Each gift of $35,000 for a page in this book will be matched in equal amount by a grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation income and its actual operating costs for one 24-hour period. At an anticipated average interest of 5V2 percent annually, Some the amount is currently $35,000. Suggested Memorial Days Th us it was that the Comstocks Birthday presented the Institute with a gold tooled, hand crafted maroon leather Book of Wedding Day Remembrance together with its handsome Child's Birthday glass topped, carved oak case. Today, on Anniversary many of its vell um pages are the names of Should you like additional information Memorial to a loved one people or events, each one beautifully on the Book of Remembrance program, Occasion for giving thanks engrossed in red; burnished with gold. please let us know. We think you will find it a Beginning or end of memorable event Often a brief description follows the name. most gratifying way to commemorate those Escape from near tragedy Every year on the day of the event cited, persons or events you want remembered. A cherished, but undisclosed event the person or persons commemorated are The Rev. James R. Whittemore included in prayers during the Institute's Director, Seamen's Church Institute chapel services and family members are of N.Y. and N.J. notified in advance so that they might 15 State Street attend. The Book of Remembrance New York, N.Y. 10004 remains open to that special page for the Telephone: (212) 269-2710 PAGE 13 PAGE 12

h following article first appeared in the November, T ;7 issue of Nautical Magazine and is published here ARCHAEOLOGIST 9 PETER THROCKMORTON ~th the permission of its editor, Mr. R. Ingram Brown. TO REPORT ON N.D.M.A. SEARCH TO DATE "THE DEVIL MAKES WORK ... " FOR THE BONHOMME RICHARD by Nereus Thursday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. at the Institute Those of us who own a highly-tuned stuck my head out in to the all eyway. It was ersonality know that it needs careful all right; nothing had changed. Around me Thanks to the Sea Heritage foundation, the public is invited to a handling; especially where books are the ship throbbed with lethargy and free talk by Peter Throckmorton, chief archaeologist for the conce rned. So we tend to be fini cky about apathy. National Underwater Marine Agency, Inc. who will describe his vhat we read. The other afternoon though, For a while I wallowed in remorse. Why organization's progress in locating the sunken vessel Bonhomme ~ slipped up badly . Stupified by the heat, hadn't I used my spare time to beco me an Richard. and a second helping of t he cook's expert at taking photographs, or painting lunch-time curry, I fell into the trap of pictures, or making things out of wood. Known as Operation John Paul Jones, the latest expedition readin g that excellent book, Spare Time at Why, at the very least, hadn't I sail ed with covering a grid of 106 square miles in late June '79 yielded many Sea . other people who were expert at taking significant find s narrowing in on the vessel's location. Other It only took me a couple of pages to ph otographs, or painting pictures, or phenomena and finds of the expedition will also be detailed. realize my mistake, but by that time it was making things out of wood. If I had, t hen too late; the damage had been done. The perhaps some of their expertise would book had got a hold on me and I couldn't put have rubbed off on me, taking some of the it down . In a couple of hours I had fini shed slack out of my character. About the Speaker it and my peace of mind was shattered. But I had never been that lucky. The ship on which I was t hen sailing was a perfect example of everything that had PETER THROCKMORTON has surveyed the waters of many regions of the world in quest of lost ships. Among his ever gone wrong wi th my spare time at successful underwater exploits is the 1975 discovery of a sea. Like all the others it was stuffed to the Cycladic ship of the third millennium B.C. - the oldest hatch coamings with unmotivated idlers. If shipwreck ever found. More recently he has been investigating they engaged in hobbies at all , they did so the remains of historical sailing ships, including The Vicar of in a desultory fashion, simply killing time Bray, with the purpose of having them transported. from the until they could let off steam in another Falkland Islands, where they are now abandoned, to the United outburst of childish eccentricity. States for museum exhibition. For a moment my train of thought was Mr. Throckmorton is curator and chief archaeologist for interrupted as the beat of t he engines got the Newcastle Historic Society in Maine, a consultant to a out of synchronization wi th the s nores number of organizations and museums related to marine archaeology in the United States and abroad, and a member of co ming from the Third Mate's cabin next the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology, England's door. Ocean Sciences Associates, Ltd ., and the Hellenic Institute of Now there was agood example of what I meant. The Third Mate spent all his spare Marine Archaeology. I knew now that the oceans around me During his long career, he has conducted undersea investigations for Greek, Italian, and time asleep. He only opened his eyes to Ceylonese archaeological services, the National Geographic Society, the University of were filled with ships t hat throbbed with keep his watch. Even his meals involved acti vity as people took photographs, or Pennsylvania Museum, the British School of Archaeology in Rome, and the United States Army (continued) Corps of Engineers. painted pictures, or made things out of He has published articles on marine archaeology in the magazines " National Geographic" wood. Suddenly, needing reassurance, I and "Archaeology in the Unites States" . "Marines Mirror" and the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration in England, and L'Express in France. In addition, he has contributed pieces to The New York Times and the London Observer, and to various volumes on maritime subjects. He is the aughor of three books: The Lost Ships, Spiro of the Sponge Fleet, and Shipwrecks and Archaeology. PAGE 14 PAGE 15 1

nothing more than a quick stop off on the chance. He had been thrown to the In b ttle. When we laughed at him he told first, but then the fighting escalated. Hand journey between bridge and bunk. And he of the declining Romans by the rest of ~hi ~ ~e was investigating ocean currents. grenades - waterfilled balloons - were was only one of a squad of dedicated crew, who had sent him to Coventry ~ heard later that one of his bottles had introduced into the battle. That was when spare-time sleepers. because they didn't like the way he treated en foun d in the Carribean by an oil the Captain, waking from afternoon sleep, Almost indistinguishable from the the Bosun; and that had happened arteritis b~flionai re's daughter. They wrote to each wandered groggily out on to the Boat Deck sleepers, except to the practised eye, were unhappy brush with the Bosun's hobb rn~ er and eventually got married. From just as the heavy artillery was brought up. the readers. They were the ones who, The Bosun's hobby was repairing y. o~ n on he was more interested in the Caught in the cross fire of two firehoses, he while they were asleep, kept a book open watches. Even though his hands hungt'ro t e" I'cal movement of oil than in the was knocked off his feet and washed into I'el ' on t heir chest. We had quite a few of them, the ends of his arms like a pair of cow' In h 'izontal movement of sea-water. the scuppers. too. udders. So it was brave of the CaptainS O~t was t he horizo ntal mo vement of His subsequent hysterical cry of "Why when he ~a s offered a fr,ee service, to p~t sea-water which had ~ecently ?rou~ht the don't you lot do something useful with your his watch mto the Bosun.s tender care. But whole ship'S company mto conflict With the time?" was, I suppose, justified; but when -~~7~\ the Bosun's workmanship turned out to be - --::- _- r _- ~~ - " -r Captain. This came about as a result of he followed this up with, "Like I do," we all impeccable, and when word of this got 'hat the Mate and the Second Engineer felt that he was bending the truth a little. J about we were all only too eager to have I~ ose to regard as a hobby; irritating each He did, admittedly, have a spare-time our watches cleaned for nothing. \ her as much as possible. activity: its usefulness was a matter of It was only after the watch-cleaning a One day while he was ashore, t he Mate I'L /I programme had got into full swing that We had what-for- him, passed as a clever idea. . ' discovered that the Bosun had another He bought himself a water-pistol. When he hobby. It seems that life, as far as the got back on board he sought out the Second Bosun was co ncerned, sometimes lost Engineer and walked up to him with his enchantment when seen through a cap tilted over his eyes; then, saying in a watch-repairerJs glass. When this mood low drawl, "A man's gotta do what a man's came over him, the Bosun used to try gotta do, " he gunned the Second Engineer looking at life through the bottom of a down. bottle in stead. Usually he managed to keep The Second Engineer was delighted. As his life well compartmented. But this time soon as he co uld , he rushed ashore and something went wrong and his two hobbies bought his own water-pistol. After this he overlapped. It was bad luck on the Radio The Radio Officer didn't fall into that and the Mate used to have a wonderful Officer that it was his watch that suffered. time sauntering towards each other along category though. He was a real reader. But this, we felt, was one of fortune's little After four weeks of strenuous toil he had the Boat Deck and acting out their whims, and we didn't think that the Radio fantasies. They were obviously enjoying got as far as page twelve of Gibbon's Officer should have made the fuss that he Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpiTe. themselves so much that we all wanted to did . join in. We all bought water-pistols and Now he was determined to read the book Anyway, we were grateful for the right through. He wanted, he said , to see two rival gangs were formed. supply of empty bottles that the Bosun Things carn e to a head one hot afternoon argument. He called it "Renovating old how it came out in the end. provided. Those of us, that is, who badly But even so, he hadn't started the when the two rival gangs fought it out for furniture." He would start, say, with an missed the normal cultural outlets total supremacy. Handguns were used at old chest of drawers. A few hours of voyage with the intention of beco ming a available to the landsman. We used to proper reader. It had happened to him by renovation would take place. He would t hrow the bottles over the side with finish up with something that looked like a messages inside them. This was our box inside which a bomb had exploded. At substitute for doing the football pools. (conti mwd on page 19) We had picked up this habit from a previous Third Mate who regularly used to send off his name and address sealed inside PAGE 16 PAGE 17 ------~~~~------METROPOLITAN AREA WELCOME 'gW SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER

In the change of command ceremonies at c aptain Fritzke, a native of Chicago, underway replenishment and ocean towing the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne completes thirty-one years of Naval to all the numbered Navy fleets. The New Jersey, on the morning of 15 June' service upon his retirement. A graduate of Command's Scientific Support ships are Captain Richard O. Gooden, USN, ' the United States Merchant Marine involved in oceanographic research, ocean assumed command of the Navy's Military Academy at Kings Point, Captain Fritzke survey, and missile tracking operations. Sealift Command Atlantic Area has served with the Military Sealift Headquarters and become the New Command in various capacities since 1969. The Director and staff of the Seamen's York/New Jersey metropolitan area's While assigned to the headquarters staff of Church Institute of New York and New senior Naval Officer. Captain Gooden the Commander, Military Sealift J ersey, extend their best wishes to their relieved Captain Herman E . Fritzke Jr Command, in Washington, he directed good and valued friend Captain Herman E . USN, who is retiring from active N~vai' cargo and passenger operations prior to Fritzke, Jr., and his wife, Olga on the service. taking over the Command's occasion of his retirement, and welcome Mediterranean Subarea in Naples, Italy. Captain Gooden to his new command. Captain Gooden, of Conway, Arkansas In 1972, he became Commander, Military enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1947 and Sealift Command, Europe, with was called to active duty in 1952. His sea headquarters in Bremerhaven, Germany. service has included assignments aboard He came to the Atlantic Area Command as the escort USS MCCOY Chi ef of Staff in 1975, and was appointed REYNOLDS (DE-440), the destroyer Commander in March, 1977. Captain USS SHIELDS (DD-596), the attack Fritzke is currently Chairman of the Board transport USS BA YFIELD (APA-33), the of Directors of the New York Chapter of Captain Richard O. Gooden, USN fleet tug USS MOCTOBI (ATF-I05) and the National Defense Transportation the USS BIGELOW (DD-942) Association. Captain Fritzke and his wife, and ORLECK (DD-886) . Under his Olga, plan to remain in the New York area command, the combat stores ship USS foll owing his retirement. (AFS-6) received the National Defense Transportation The Military Sealift Command is an Association Award as the most operating force of the , outstanding Navy transportation unit. staffed predominantly by a civilian workforce. The ships of the Command . He is a graduate of the Armed Forces have status as a Navy fleet, and provide Staff College and the Army War College, immediate sealift capability to support Captain Herman E. Fritzke, Jr., USN and holds a Master's Degree from George military contingency plans and other Washington University, Washington, national emergencies. Working closely D.C. He comes to the Military Sealift with commercial steamship companies, the Command from duty with the Bureau of Command plans for immediate expansion Naval Perso nnel, the Office of the Chief of in time of war. The command also operates Naval Operations, the Office of the Joint ships of the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force Chiefs of Staff, and the Office of the (oil ers, tugs and stores ships), providing Secretary of Defense. For the past year, he has been Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs at Military Sealift Command headquarters in Washington, D.C. Captain Gooden is married to the former Louise Parette of Morrilton, Arkansas. They have two grown sons and a daughter who is attending college. ______~P ~A~G~E~~1 8~ ______------PAGE------19 ------

British Sailors' Society "THE DEVIL MAKES WORK ... " (continued/rom page 15) Offers Fine Print of TITANIA this stage the Carpenter would be called into so small an area. His beard wasn't a in heads would be scratched, beer would success either; it grew in tufts, so that his change hands, and muffled banging would chin looked like an uncut lawn during a come from the Captain's cabin during the drought. When he got an infection, and had to have his ear painted purple, the Mate's In commemoration of its 160th . night. Then at the end of the voyage a signature. Overall pri~t size i~ 24~5/16" x fine -looking chest-of-drawers would be satisfaction was complete. The very sight Anniversary, the British Sailors' SocIety 32-3/8" and the actual Image sIze IS 18" x taken home to join the other renovated of him would be enough to frighten the 27". Priced at £79 (pounds) each including most rebellious crew member. has commissioned a limited edition fine .art furni t ure at the Capt~in's. house. . print of the tea clipper t~e T~ta.ma air parcel postage, it is an excellent buy in But it was the Captam hImself - such IS Sadly, the Carpenter was the first to as portrayed by the noted marIne pam tel' support of a most worthy organization. the intricacy of the finely-spun web of experience this new version of the Mate, Derek G.M. Gardner, V.R.D., R.S.M.A. A full color descriptive brochure which cause and effect aboard ship - who and the Carpenter was not a brave man. Strictly limited to an issue of 850, ~a:h includes an order form may be obtained by brought to an end this agreeable One morning he overslept. The Mate was arrangement; and all because he didn't hanging about on deck just before full color print is embossed wit~ the BrItIsh writing Miss Jean Barclay, British Sailors breakfast and he noticed that the Sailors' Society logotype and IS Society, Commercial Union House, much like the look of the Third Mate. We couldn't fault him on this; we didn't like the Carpenter's jalousie was still shut tight. So individually numbered and signed by the 406-410 Eastern Avenue, liford, Essex, he went to investigate. Various banging artist. In addition, each print is . England IG2 6NG. look of the Third Mate ourselves. His face was far too thin for his straggly blonde noises inside the cabin suggested that the accompanied by a numbered certIficate beard and long yellow hair. Carpenter was stumbling around and authenticating the print, its number and trying to come to terms with the new day. I ' I,I :[1 I The Mate, who knew the Carpenter's I habits, grinned horribly and pressed his face against the Carpenter's Window. A few moments later, ready at last to take his first look at the world outside the Carpenter put his two hands on the ' jalousie top and pulled it down. He squinted and blin~ed for a bit, and finally managed to get hIS eyes focussed. His mouth fell open and a small grunt of fear came from deep inside his throat. There, only a thin sheet of glass away, was the lumpy-headed, purple-eared, tufty­ chinned, grinning face of the Mate. The Carpenter slammed his jalousie We felt though that the Captain had shut and it was two hours before he could gone too far, when one day he looked at the be coaxed out of his cabin. His hands didn't Third Mate, pensively, and then said, "You stop shaking for the rest of the Voyage and the Captain had to give up renovating old know, you remind me of a rat peering out of furniture. a bale of oakum." The Third Mate was hurt and he retailiated by shaving his head When you think about it, how we do completely. The resulting combination of waste our time. r am definitely going to shaved head and beard look so bizarre that take up a useful hobby. It will have to wait the style caught. on. We all shaved our a bit though. The Second Engineer hasjust heads and we all tried to grow beards and put his head around my door to say that the we all thought we looked striking, in an Mate is ashore and that there are a couple original sort of way. of cans of red-and-white paint lYing around Naturally enough the style suited some in the Engineer's shop. So we are going to more than others. The Mate looked paint one of the derricks to look like a barber's pole. particularly grotesque. After he had shaved his head, people used to stop and r can't wait to see the Mate's face when he gets back on board. talk to him, just so that they could have a look at it. It didn't seem possible that so many lumps and bumps could be crammed Seamen's Church Institute of N.Y. and N.J. SECONO CLASS 15 State Street AT NEW YORK . N.Y. New York, N.Y. 10004 Address Correction Requested