SCHOONER LILLIAN E. KERR
SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK
JUNE, 1947 §anr1uary o Almighty God. remember with Thy mercy and 10\ e all who The Lookout minister before Thee in Institutes and Chapels for eamen through. - out the world. Pro~per the work ill which they are engaged. enable Vo I. XXXVIII June, 1947 No.6 them faithfully to preach Thy Word and to fulfill t~leir ~ini~tr y. May they uphold Christ, both by their words and 111 the~r lives, ~ (/).o~ ~ JJW»L SJzip., JiM., and raise up. we pray Thee. faithful and true men for thls "ork, for the sake of Je. m· Chri-t. our Lord. Amen. GOLDE. cocker spaniel and an airedale owe their lives to the (Missions 10 Sell/II/'n) A hravery of Captain John Anderson, Chief Officer Herbert Parker, and the purser Don Malone when their ship, the "John Ericsson" burned at her ~ew York pier recently. All three officers were on \'acation when fire broke out aboard the "Ericsson," but on hearing the news on the radio. they hurried back to the ship, dashed on board to re cue the two dog, "Eric" (the airedale) and "Chotahpeg" (the spaniel) who were locked in the Captain's cabin. A fire 7he man broke down the door. The dogs, The Chief Officer and Eric very frighened. were crouching 011 the floor, but a soon as they aw Captain the U. S, .Nla ritime Commission pur· Ander on they perked up and between chased her. renamed her "John =~, them they got the dog out and carried Ericsson" (for the wedL h-American \·OL. XXX\'JII, re. -E, 1941 them down ladders from the top deck ~aval engineer who buil t the first PI -B USHED :\IO:\THLY to a forward section of the ship which armored turret hip '-l\Ionitor"). by the was not threatened by the fire and II through the war the "John SEAMEN'S CHURCH shut them up there while tIle three Ericsson" SP)'ved the Allies, carried INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK men went ha k to help fight the fire troops and after V-J Day. Ct.\ REX(,E G. ~IICH.\LIS BO.OOO Pre5ident and rescue \'al uable document.. war brides. children, and refugees. TllO:llAS ROBERTS The ] 6.500 ton vessel which wa. She carried as many a 7.500 at one S('('relary and Treasurcr operated by the United States Lines RE\'. HAROLD H. KELLEY. D.D. time. She,logged 200,000 miles in this Director was built in 1928 in Germany for transport en·ice. She carried the first MARJORIE DE"T CAXDEE. Editor the wedish-America Line. As the POLLY \YEA ' ·ER. A,'ociate Editor marine division to Guadalcanal. and "Kungsholm" she carried passengers the reinforcements for th 'orth 1.00 per year 10c per copy in Ih (> tran. ·Atlanti c run. In 191.1 Gifts of 5.00 per year and over African invasion. Her dramatic war· include a year's subscription to "THE time career ended on 'larch 6th when LOOKOUT", a three·alarm fire. probably due to de· Enured as secoJld class matter July 8, fective wiring. . wept her main and 1925. at New J' ork, N. Y .• IIlIder tile act of March 3, 1879· promenade decks. Her hull was saved. Address all communications 10 and was towed to Staten Island. SE:\:\iE:\'S ' H 'R H [:\STITCTE Chief Officer Parker ~uJfered from OF :\£\\' YORK smoke and minor burns and was 2:'> SOl'Tli . T., 0:E.\\' YORK -1-, :\. Y. hospitalized. Telephone IlOwline Green 9-27 10 As we go to press we learn that Captain Anderson ha~ heen given THIS MOl\TH'S CO\ ER \\as taken from on board 3 mast schooner command of the U. S. Liner American "Irene & 1\Iyrtle" by James Antle - in "the Race" !bet\\een Merchant a ne\\ C-2 cargo-pas enger \lolltauk Point and Blo'k hlandl ummel' 1912. ~hip. lie became a captain at the age Thi: was la!'t voyaf!;e of the L. E. Kerr. She \\a~ 10"t \lith all hands. of 23, and has erved 26 years af; l'lIll clo\ln in thi ck \\cather h) )'eturnill~ COJl\oy about a month after. maf;ter of . Line ships. He graduated from the .chool . hip ew .a ption hy George \ llh l(' port in 1913, all almost entire Jewish crew. It \\a~ w£IJl., 1UlmJul.a, JJf.- $LJJ1lJL. CJJ.aIJ.lJJJiML rumored . he had been purchased to run refugec~ to Pale tine. Shmn.JItip/J, i.JL WJttl.r1 W£IJl., " Northland and Southland were at last reports. stil l at Antwerp, as it By Freeman R. Hathaway, was felt they could not safely make Member Steamship Historical Society of America the trip horne. Probably the most familiar hip EDITOR'S , OTE: M(lIIY LOOKOUT ming dish fleet," (because of their known to New Yorkers is the Richard readers on reading the following article shallow draft) and it made a braw Peck, which ha run to practically all will have sentimental memories of these old coast-wise steamboats which once were start from ewfoundland in October. ports on the lower New England " familiar sight 011 Long Island Sound 191·2. everal days out, they werr Coast. She was sold in 1938 to the and on. the New York to Boston Run. spotted by enemy planes. the sub Meseck Steamboat Company and ran These t'essels, also, did their bit in the marines then notified, and Soon the between ew York and ew Haven, war; man)' were lost, but a few are now Elisha Lee ex-Richard Peck in. peace-time service. underwater attack was on. The summers. Photo by James Wilson Boston and New York were sunk, fo l With defense plans under way ITH the coming of World War II, lowed the next day by the 10 s of ill January, 1941, the Peck was taken the City of Lowell, went into retire Wthe fast dwindling fleet of coast Yorktown. President Warfield and over by the government, and made ment in 1938, under plans to use wise and Long Island oUlld steamers Yorktown were credited with each the run under her own steam to her, together with the Governor Cobb. were takf'n over for war duly, leaving inking a ub, it was reported_ and Ara entia_ ewfoundland. where she as trailer ships. othing came of th i,_ the coast. practically stripped of any the little New Bedford put up a brave wa used as a barracks ship for con but in 1943 the Lowell wa towed to \f'ssels .uitahle for passenger and two day fight. The remnant arrived in struction workers. She eventually be Brooklyn and took the place of freight !'cr ice. Scotland, and aw various ervicf's in came the U.S.S. Richard Peck, IX 96, Meteor as the Army Base barracks Somf' of these ships, remembered the cross-channel service, acting as returning to this port in May 1943, ship, serving a such until November. hy tra\'eler~. arf' hrif'fly discu sed in barracks ship for training offi cer". where the writer had luncheon aboard 19.15. She wa then towed to the laid tl;is articlr. and, in the ca e of the Naushon, a with her captain_ Soon the Peck left up fleet, and it is believed that she i" Probably the most pectacular ma s hospital ship. for Torfolk, and in order to filL in a now being broken up for scrap near exodus of the e hips occurred in 'aushon, New Bedford and Presi need for service in that area, was sold Washington, D. C. September. 1942, when a convoy of dent Warfield have returned to thi ~ to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and re Two sister ships well known in the eiaht former coastwise steamboats left country. and have been offered for named Elisha Lee. She has been run late 1930's on Long Island Sound. ~w York for England, after having ale by the Maritime Commis ion. ning ever since 1943 on the Cape were the Arrow (ex Belfast) and been prepared for their hard trip. Naushon ha been purchased by the Charles-Old Point Comfort- orfolk Comet (ex Camden) which ran on They were the Boston and New 'leseck teamboat Company in ew line with great success. the Colonial Line. Taken over by the )' urk of the Eastern Steamship Com York, and will run to Rye Beach this Another Sound steamboat which Army, after extensive alterations they pany's e\\ York-Boston service, Nau summer_ we are told. New Bedford's came back to life. was the Meteor, left ew York and were inter-island shon and 'eU' Bedford of the ew di position has not been announced. I ex Chester W. Chapin), taken over transports at Hawaii. Arrow was re Bedford-Nantucket fleet, Yorktown However, President Wa.rfield, fir~ t from the Colonial Line in March, cently reported as sold by the Mari announced as sold to Chinese in 1942, and put into service as a and PresidpllI Warfield of the Old Bay time Commis ion. 0 word is Line. and orlhland and Southland tere~ts_ la t month wa on her wa y barracks ship at the Army Base, available as to the fate of the Comet. of the 'orfolk and '\ a hington Line. to France. he became disabled fi nd Brooklyn. She continued as such until She was last heard from in Hawaii. This fleet lias known as the " _kim- came back to orf olk. operated h) 191 ..'~. \~ ' hen she too wa pressed into The Colonial Line also operated service on the passenger run from other ships under charLer for their Wa hington to Norfolk. Her service Long Island Sound Services, among there was spasmodic, and soon the which were the: ~leteor was laid up. After the war, she joined the laid up fleet in the President Warfield, Southland, James River. and. too. was reported Y orktown-discussed previously, "old to the Chinese for service on the State of Virginia - used in war Yangste River. However, in April, service at Trinidad. 1917 the Meteor showed up in New Also at Trinidad was the little York having been purchased by an Gosnold, later Miramar, and last excursion boat operator. who plans known as Wm. S. White. to perhaps run her to Bridgeport. The Sandy Hook was used by the Thi~ is one ves el which may return Army during the war as a transporL to t he old Sound waters. around New York harbor. Last sum City of Lowell Wassuc, ex Y.le (m/,/ill The running mate of the Meteor_ mer she ran from the Ballery to RyE' Photos I,y Stepha ll I 2 Beach. (Plm'land) T. Y. She is now cA'ort has Ilrell mad,' to huilcl up this owned hv the Central Railrond of f1eeL oll('e more 011 ae ount of hio-h uprraLing em .. ts. and co 111 peti tion f rO~11 "., RTA I \ going LIp!" '1'lw magie . J. 8nd'\lill prohahly !>ail thi!'. um L hush - and thl' play begins. mer from Te\l York tn Atlantic Hi~h· parallel . hore sen icrs . of aUlos. truck.. hus.es and trains. Let u hope Thi ' i~ heard frequently hoth in the land!'. . J. thaL \11" can again board a teamboat JaneL Roper Club and in thr Audi· A ~hip buill for Long Ti
4 S culties of memorizing lines have been Burghar (of the Virginia Fairfaxe overcome recently by presenting cha suh) who got interested in magic dur: rades, pantomines, and by the impro ing the war and has done quite a IelY NE afternoon last winter a visation of dialogue. professional turns with it. In a re One or two eamen were winnowed cent issue of "SEA LA ES," pub O tall, distinguished-looking man out [rom th e group as having unusual lication of the Janet Roper Room Illounted the Institute's main stair talent for dramatics. One of these is a seaman who saw the Paul Dor~ way and introduced himself a tryinp; to save hi money so that he production of "Hollywood Inter_ Frederic March, the actor. He wanted can attend dramatic school in the view" wrote a review in which he nO conducted tour of the building future. said: "I've seen amateur plays of one Through her connections with the act, two acts, three acls, Long J011n~ but simply asked permission to walk American Theatre Wing with which and what-have-you ... indeed, it got through the lobbies and game room, she served during the war and the so that if at any time you required where he could observe the eamen_ Episcopal Actors Guild, Mrs_ 10hn a ham sandwich, all you had to do He explained that he intended to play F. McGovern, volunteer hostess, has was to take along the bread; the ham the role of a seafarer in a forthcom supplied quite a lot of talent to the was there ready for slicing ... But Institute's entertainment programs. . . . at long last, I found it! A one ing play• Among well-known and talented act play which was good! The script The play turned out to be a new artists whom he has brought down was like the curate's egg . . . good comedy, "YEARS AGO," which stars to entertain the seamen are Shirley in parts but the excellent treatment Frederic March and his wife, Woodman Wallace, concert violinist, it got from the players redeemed it Sergei Meilor, baritone, and Fairfax completely." Florence Eldridge. Mr. March plays the part of Clinton Jones, father of Ruth Gordon, actress and playwright. Mr. Jones had gone to sea as a cabin NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER SINKS; The Bandeirante, which docked at 3 :30 daughter. "And he'll give you 100 NINE MISSING p. m. at Pier tii, East River and Coenties boy at the age of eight, and had for this spygla s ... I'm willin' to Slip, was en route to Cuba when it col continued sailing until he became a grea e the ways a bit for my daughter Her sides bursting open by rolling cargo, lided with the 196-foot tug at 10 :50 p. m. the 3,215 ton Norwegian motorshlp Belpa the night before in a fog five miles south mate. He then married and settled 'cause it's hard settin - out on a nel' mela sank in the Atlantic, according to of the Barnegat Lightship. Captain Ernest in Wollaston, Mass., where his enterprise without money in your the Coast Guard. She carried a crew of McCreary, skipper of the tug, owned by jeans." 27, 18 of whom were rescued by the 7,000 the United States l\1aritime Commission daughter, Ruth, was born. His me ton American freighter fohn P. Mitchell, and operated by Moran Towing and Trans A gray cat named --Punk-' also ap which radioed the Coast Guard that the portation Company, Inc., 17 Battery Plare, mories of his seafaring days were pears in "Year Ago:- When th e fir~l sinking occurred about 800 miles east of said the freighter rammed six feet into the still vivid, and his vocabulary wa orfolk, Va. The survivors told the crew cat disappeared shortly after the play tug's port side but all his crew got off made colorful by nautical phrase of the Mitchell that they had seen the nine safely. opened, the Institute offered its feline missing sailors take to the water with life The tug was towing the decommissioned ology. rafts. The Radiomarine Corporation of Liberty Ship Thomas M. Cooley at the end mascot, "Bosun" as an appropriate America picked up a message from the of a 1,500-foot cable and as she sank made Mr. March's portrayal of the crot substitute - and indeed "Bosun" Mitchell asking other ships in the vicinity a perfect anchor. A sister tug, the Trinidad chety but kind-hearted ex-seafarer is might have "trod the board" except to join a search for the missing men. No Head, was sent for the Cooley and towed trace was found of the nine men. her here. delightfully amusing. His keen obser that he i while and the part called OIL TANKER AFIRE IN CARIBBEAN Worst off of the sunken tug's crew, all for a gray cat! of whom lost their belongings, was Albert vation during his brief visit to "25 Fire broke out in the engine room of McCabe, an oiler, of 48 Underhill Avenu l'. South Street" is evident by the John Mason Brown, writing in the atltr the American Petroleum Transport Com Brooklyn, who left his false teeth in a day Review 0/ Literature, paid tribute to pany's tanker Fishers Hill when five miles glass beside his bunk. "I'm looking for sailor's rolling gait and widespread off the Colorado light at Aruba. The blaze fro 1\1arch's acting: "He had explored the ward to a big oatmeal supper to celebrate stance he acquired for the role. In part fully, mastered its shadings, and was forced the crew to abandon ship and three our rescue," he said. merchant ves els went to the rescue. the play, Mr. Jones, after much op acting from within. The slight toop of the Prompt and courageous action by the ves Editor's Note: Eighleen of the crew of the IIIfl stayed overnight 01 the Institute following tll~ lr pOSItIOn , allows his daughter to shoulders; the hint of an a(,(,ent; the sug sel's skipper, Capt_ R. A. Moberg, pre re.'iC1U. '-ented 10. of lift'. journey to New York to "go on the gestion of a sailor' walk, rememhered from youth and per i ting year. aft rwards 011 FREIGHTER SINKS TUG, stage:' and he even gives her his ury land; the manllal dextf'rity hown in SAVES ALL 27 IN CREW most precious possession to pawn tying knots and handling a knife when do The Norwegian freighter Bandeirante, his spyglass-which he had lovingly ing up a package _ _ _ and the proof of which had left here just twenty-four hours polished and cherished all his 24 earlier, returned yesterday with two large his range, is to see him as the pepper)' but holes punched in her bow and the twenty years ashore. benevolent father in "Years Ago," having seven-man crew of the seagoing tug Great "Go to Cap'n Alec Forbes at 22 Isaac, which lay fourteen fathoms deep ten just seen him as the jaunty and wealthy miles off the New Jersey coast. South Street," Mr. Jones tells his sergeant in "The Best Years of Our Li\'e~ . ,- 6 7 l-JE new J1Jaurclania. in civi lian years in the Cunard· White tar Line. T paint and resuming th e peace· Upon the old Mauretania's retire. time duties ~ h e had just begun at the ment in 1935 an unprecedented trio outbreak of war, arrived in ' e\\ bute was paid the "grand old lady" York 011 May 2nd on her first po t· when a memorial, depicting her at ERCHAl\T seamen know war yoyage. · She carried 1,128 pas- ea, was unveiled in t. Nichola. "hat Joseph Conrad meant when he enger and she forged through a Cathedral, ewca tIe-probably the heavy mist to h r berth at Pier 90. "rotl.! : only time a ship was ever immortal. ..It's stout hearts that keep Bad weather curtailed her reception. ized in a church ,.\ in dow. Her fa te·t th e ship safe." but her kipper. Captain R. G. B. eros ing was made on Augu t 16. Woollatt expres-ed pride in the 1929, at the age of 22 when he sped In hours of peril shared at sea. the): 35,677 ton liner and hope that she from r e\~ York to Plymouth, Eng. ba l e depended on the stout hearts of would become as popular" ith trans· land, in four days, 17 hour and 50 their shipmates ... and have come atlantic pas ~ engers a her famou minutes for an average peed of through. When ashore, they depend predeces or. th e "old" Maurelania, 27.22 knots. 'peed queen of the Atlantic for 22 on friend. like you for the touch of year. AlLhough the new Mauretania i· bome tha t gi vcs thew the spiri L to The Clinics give about 5,000 treatments annually 'The hip beha ed very well," be not de igned for ucb peed, she arryon. said. despi te a gale off the north seems destined to win a place in the One of the facilities aL 25 South coast of Ireland. Capt. Woollatt was affections of travelers to Europe a. lreeL \I hich they use constantly and The Library is but one of the many in command of the Mauretania when a worthy successor. Of her crel\ of eelll)" appreciate is the Conrad service. maintained by the Institute she left Tew York for the last time 600, 100 cr e as a "hotel" staff : Library_ With it ship models, it ma for merchant "eamen from all lands. - on March 10. 1915, carrying 7,584, tewards, waiters, stewarde, 'es, etc. rine paintings, and its windoll ' ol'er American troop' bound for England. Crew accommodation have been en· There are health, character·build· lookin 0' th e harbor, it i a nautical Capt. Woollatt i~ a veteran of 33 larged and renovated. ing, and recreational en 'ices suit· nrtuary where the men can study ed to the special need and wi hes of or licen.es or raise of grade, catch p on recent magazine.. and read to eafarers, young and old. their hearts' con tent. It's the warm hearts of generou. friends that k ep the In titute "steady as she goes."
VETERAN LINER TO THE the Hamburg merican Line. In 191 7 . he SCRAP HEAP was ,eized and interned by the C. . GO I ernmcnt, anJ used during World War J The gallant 38'rear-old SS George Jl7a h, to transport 100,000 troop. to France. ,\ ft ... r ingtoll, veteran of both World Wars and Ih e war, while ~Iill under ('ommand of once a favorite luxury liner on the forth Captain Edward ,\Tuc811Iey, US. , former tlantic nm, will go' into th permanent memher of the '\laritimc COl1lmLsion. ,hI' Reserve Fleet where he wHl land rendy rarrit:d Pre idenl Wil~on to and from t1w for en'ice again in any national mergency, Paris peace conferen 'e, and wa rho en l ~ )' the United States Maritime Commi ion the King and Queen of Belgium for thel ha, announced. vi it to the United tates. he transporte.d this library, Loo, go ouL the The George Washington wa built in member of th e .\merirun Lej!ion on I h ~r of book a gifts for crew 190B at tetlin, Germany, a a luxury trip to Parib in ]92] us p;ue. ts of t e pa senger liner, and began her career with French government. on out-going ships under all
8 9 blanketed til(· \es 'el from bow to from the to hip UIIJ ~UUIl di appearcd stern, tile 5 .. Alder, already heavily heyond the horizol1. \\ hell one of the loaded as was th e gre dy custom in lifeboat returned to the !-oC'l' ll e, little those day. commenced to lide lower was left of the ill-fated S.S. Alder. By Ralph D. Finch* and 10\\ cr into the water. The Master A small amount of d('ln·i. alld hUll · realizing that hi s hip would oo~ dreds of dead hutterflies "ere all that he ordered a ninety degree course founder. ordered the crew to abandon remaincd. A strange fate for a gallant ~ TRA GE are the ways of the ea. ship. The lifeboats were launched in ship. LI Stranger yet. the stories of the change. Ai': the ,essel moved off on it neW cour ~c the cloud. now \ ery large, the nick of time hut not without great In the offices of Lloyd'" of London. ships and the men that sail them. Our human exertion. the renowned in 'mance firm of Lon· story oncerns the untimely ending also.seemed to change it cour e, till heading for the 5.S. Alder. Again and In a matter of minutes the5.S. Alder don, England, hangs a plaque upon of the 5.5. Alder. It j~ a trange story. again the 5.5. A fd er steered ne\\ had slipped beneath the waves. Gone \\ hich is mounted a large butterfly. An unbelieveable story. A story forever. However, before the sea had In. cribed underneath are th e e word. : unique in all the annals of the sea. cour es but each time the cloud al 0 completely engulfed this hapless ship, " ~In memory of the 5.5. Alder." Let's turn back the years. Back, chanO'ed course as it approached the great swarm of butterAies arose • From the Radio Officer's News. back to the year 1911. We find the near~r and nearer. By this time the 5.5. Alder plying a course through entire crew was on deck. Speculation the waters of the Persian Gulf. It wa was rife. The officers and crew, harden. ed seamen that the were,' ere dumb· on one of those scorching days, with NEWS OF LIBERTY SHIPS REPORT TO THE CONVENTION little wind, not uncommon in thi part founded. TO one including the veterans of many year at sea, had NAMED FOR S.C.!. FRIENDS of the world, that it happened. Dr. Kelley pre_ented the Annual ever encountered uch a phenomenon. Among the Liberty ships in which we The mate, pacing the bridge, be· took especial interest through the war Report of tIle Institute, as printed ill came aware of what he thought was Strange Kismet vears were the Janet Lord Roper Archi the April "Lookout," lo the Conven· a black cloud barely visible on the Soon the immense cloud was upon IJold R. :'ITansfield, Charles H. Marshall tion of the Dioee e of New York 011 lind Charles S. Haight. horizon. As the minutes ticked off, the the hi p. Then and on I y then did the Here is th e latest news about them: May 13th. He lre sed this as the cloud grew in size and seemed to be truth become e\ idenl. The clOlld, be· report of th e Board of Managers to lieve it or not, wa a warm of butter· J NET LORD ROPER (named for the heading directly for the 5.5. Alder. the Diocese a well as to all con flies. lillion of weary insects, un· late "i\f other Roper," founder of the Insti The mate was puzzled. "I thi. a storm tIItt'"s Missing Seamen's Bureau) is tem tributors to the In, titute, and empha· doubtedly blo\\'n out to sea by some porarily in th ~ laid·up fleet in orfolk, Va.; approaching?" he thought. He check· ized the preponderantly lay memo ed the barometer, but found no storm, now frantically searching for eventually will go to the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. bership of the Board and its beinG' change. The wind direction was such a place to re, t their weary wings. You gue sed it, the 5.5. Alder wa to be ARCHIB-\LD R. lA SFIELD (named actively officered by laymen. In thi~ that the storm, if it was one, should for the latt' Dr. :'Ilansfield who was the ~ame connection he mentioned the be moving away instead of towards their havcn. Doml upon the hip they r n~titute' s uperintendent for 38 years) the ship. "Very queer:' he aid to him· lit. on tht ri gging. the gear, on every ree'ently ~uiled from Seattle, Wo h., on her tafT of 300 Institute employees all self, "I'd beller call the Ole Man." available space. uullerOy upon butter· way to German)' with supplies for the Army. being laymen excepl him elf and Operated by Boland & Corncli ll ~ . When the Ma tel' reached the bridge fly. A,; tons lIpon ton s of butterAies the customary one or two other CHARLES n. MARSHALL (named for the owner of the Black Ball Line of packet Chaplains. hips, and grandfather of Charles H. 1ar· In pre enting the report the Di· , hall, a member of the Institute's Board of Managers). Thi ship i now on her rector remarked that the Board and way to Norfolk. Operated by Polarus Staff as worker might better be , learn hip Co. designated a '''nights.'' from the CHARLES . H IGTIT, (named for a Anglo·Saxon root for "work. " This former memher of the In titute's Board of :\Ianagers). Thi ship was shipwrecked on sturdy old noun con tinues in com· the ro cks near Rockport, fa ., early in pounds, "shipwright." "milhHight" the morning of April 1, 1946. All the crew and the like, and connote highly ~ot off safely. The ship's bell was rescued aJnd was presented to Charles . Haight, skilled workers or builder" He fore r. of the III titut 's Board. saw also its application to re ligious and welfare workers undcr ALL-TIME HIGH IN PASSENGER possible new, ret hOl1e tly Anglo· TRAFFIC Saxon compound. - "church wright"' AU records for peacetime trans·Atlantic JI 3 senger traffic on merican Flag mer and 'wealwright." th e latter with ~hant ship were hattered in 1946 when a special reference to the uphuilding lotul of 1,236,707 military and chilian pa - of th e commonweal or welfare, and rngtr~ .were carried on U.. laritime ag a replacement of the current tl\O' .omml Ion vessels between Atlantic Coast POrts and foreign countries. worded term "social worker." Drau.'i .. o by Phil May II 10 into tht> chart and ~aicl: "It's l\Jr. Barry who'. the real ~kippe r aboard, By Fred Lane even' if it aint official." Mr. Benson scratched hi. hlond head unn wrote OU don'L forgeL your first voyage old voice that ahl!l) s reminded me of down some figures. " But the port cap· Ywith a gold -tripe on your lee\e. a hip training against her berth. tain signed on old Grime. instead." ot if you came up mel' the how .. "But we'll feel it, Ir. Rodney, we'll he went on. "Sentimental rea"on5. I you don·t. But it' hardl y likely that feel it." Then a lillie smile lit up hi~ "ue s. Grimes i one of Ihe last of the I would forget the Tillamook any" a), seamy features a,; reminiscence shone 01l" d w]n· . d , I'lip men. " creaky old tub that "he" a. : 110r Cap· in hi \I ateI') II I ue eyes. "Rem i nds Ill~' I nodded. but T didn't agree II ith tain Grim ~ and lr. Barry, the mate of the loyage when I II as apprentice him. I didn't think that the port cap· -who were a far apart as the pole~. on the ship Silver Witch-ancl a snort· tain wa . en timen tal. at al l. But you And you don't forget those sharp er blew up north of Cape Stiff. Well don't argue or ,"oice opinions- not 011 iI', we took in the royals, flying jib, peaks of life when the elements go your fi r t voyage \I i th a gol d stri pe on mad with merciles strength, and stays'ls, and t'gallants. But it got )our sleeve, you don't. men's wills clash. Those memories wor e, so we reefed the tops'ls, and- " . Jlist after ~even he li s, the sea he· burn deep. " Beg pardon, sir!" It was Mr. Bar· trayed u, . The COllony eirru. had We were pa ing through the Caro· ry, the mate. Therr wu annoyance merged to hecome a darkening ol'er· lines, churning up a creamy wake in his voice as he interrupted. "Every. cast, and Ih e long sllells \\'pre march· across a late·gray sea. The glas wa. thing shipshape and ecure. Here are ing upon 11 . from the starhoard bow. oscillating erratically. and a cinu the tank sounding ." He handed o\'er IL "a sticky hol. and you COll i d fee I haze, a creeping over the k). The a lip of paper. the weight of the atlllo~l'here Learing hours to repair it. And overhead, the flying fish no longer broke from the .,\ er) good. Mr. Barry," Captain OOll'n on )' Oll. T II a~ i II the port "inf!,", 5kr's frown wa deepening. lazy swelL . and the leaping, laughin!! Grime replied. then went right on and Captai n Grimes II a~ standing near We went to work. The tanks II ere porpoi.es had di appeared. The ea with hi yarn. "We close·reefed the the wheelholl. e \1 hen th lookout\ fi lled forward and ]lumped out aft, birds. th gooney and gulls, "ere fore and mizzen top 'I . reefed the strident cq "edged Ihrou)!h the op· and men 1011 ered on French bo\ lines long ince gone; but occasionally you courses. and stow d the mizzen-" He pressive ai r: ol'er the stern to free the propeller and would ee the stormy petrel kim· peered at the sky a he talked, while " ubmerged wreckage - dead repair the rudder. In the engine· ming over the urface. It was like that the mate stood by. scowling. ahead !" room. the black gang worked furious· ten e, expectant moment I\hen the Til \ made a striking contra. t. tite-e " tarloard - hard a·5larhourd!" Iy aoainst time. When we churned lights "'0 out before the curtain i. two: tile little old . kipper whose thin· thl' Captain's shoul IJlelided II ith the away finall) at sloll speed. th e gale lifted for a pia) ; or the hushed ~ileJl(,c Iring hail' lay ilvel,) II hitel:lgain ~l hiB jangle of the enginC'.rooll1 teleg raph. lIas beginning to chop lip th e sea. when the mae. tro raise the haton that sea oned·oak skin; aged, ) et omehow The Til/al/lfIllk I eerC'd and shllndered We took only a IdaJ1('ing hloll frolll "ill bring forth the thundering drama ageles , Ilith the indelible mark of the as her prop Il er hit inlo the sea at the. torm- hut it II as nearly enough of sound. old camas ea upon him. And the full speed astern. to Hink u" It lIas a deafening . )'Ill· Captain Grimes joined me on the mate, Lo\\ering ix foot two, his shoul· But it "as 100 late. There lIas a phony of I'iolent ound: (green moun· bridge. "On our present cour. e "e'JI der muscle- ripp ling under immacu, grinding roar to porl as the tangled tain~ wickedly roaring down upon us, kirt it to the northeast. accordin' to late ,hites, cool and efficient, and "reckagt> h it and sl id along thp steel winds . creaming \\ ilh insane delight th e wireless." h ~aid in his II heezy wearing the mark of the nell sea-the plate. : ano then a thudoing and jar· a~ they II hipped 1I~ with lashe. of salt steel sea-like a badg . ring as somt thin p; snarlen up aft. The "pra), and heat us nOlI n with torren· rngille.' throhhing heal stopped. You sec the e things on your fir t lial rain. and a ~ llip groanill g and voyage a a deck offtcer. You see them. The sea an do that to you. Days. sobbing. and ~ollle tim es . hrieking her but you don't ay very much ... \Ie h - even yean; - call go hy. and prote ts.) You think about the wide gap be· the' ~ea smiles .• he holds you in her For two days. desperatel) fighting tlleen the e tIl 0: the garrulous little r-enll e arms. amu. es you \I ith her pir· the crazed element. that seemed de· captain . pilling out the lore and leg He'd pla\ fulne"f'. and lulls you with termined to baller 1I. into driftwood. end of the sea of yesterday; and the {'Olll fori i Ilg l1111 r111 11 r . . Tllrll, in a mat· \\' didn't sleep. Captain Grimes. a trr of . ecol1ck she til I'll . on yO Il in a modern mate, i.mp.aLie.nt \\ ith the pa~~ shapeles. lillIe figure in hi. yelloll to whom a sillp IS SImply O'teel ~I b fll rY and . trike'. cruell y. oilskin., n IeI' left the hridge. Mr. wood, and sailing her is just a JO There lI e \\ere. lifting sluggi hly in Barn" was everywhere-in th e boil'S to do. the long gray slI'ells which heralded seei'{g to t he storm oi 1. amjdship~ the oncoming storm. our rudder dam· I'd been in the chartroom one ~a)' \\ hen a hoat ripped from it. davits and aged, and tIle steel cables of the clere· when the second mate was checkd]!lg dallgled oyer the ide. aft where a · . eT li(t tangled up in our propeller. And hatch-coyer was lifted ancl blown the day' run. He stuck the dIV] that wa, n't a II. Thr tail·. haft was away like a reather. ometimes the (Reprinted from Nov. 1946 Blue Book Magnine by special permission) (Tacke'd, un cI the engine·room needed "incl "ould grip and hold you against 12 13 a bulkhead, choking hack your breath he spoke of modern fathometers and when I sensed somethin g behind his while it drenched you with pume. electric win he . of Die el jobs and detailed reminiscing, something very The lillIe Tillamook, lurchin~ ancl electric-turbine-driven craft. ... The intangible and peculiarly frightening. pitching, seemed .omehow alive. as steel sea. But with Captain Grimes, I tossed about uneasil y; and quite un with tortured crie_ she. huddered over -.- ships had souls, and the sea was a bidden, recollection of Melville's mad the ere t and slipped .ickeningly into living thing. Sometimes hi voice Captain Ahab crept into my mind .... the yawning sea· valleys. And yet we would become huskily reverent when I had hardly closed my eyes when pulled through; out 0 f that awful he told of a ship he loved. Once he the engines stopped turning over. For chao and con f w;ioll. ca me 0 rder- - said: "Men rhange, ships change, but a second I lay tense. Then J was on finally. Bllt the Rea wa n't through the sea-never!". _ . my feet. It is always alarming when with u. ot yet. ~he wasn't. We sighted land just after two bells. your ship's throbbing vibration i The wind had sub. ided to a mere It was on the starboard quarter - suddenly cut off, even in fair weather. gale, and the sea panted _pasmodic· where it shouldn't have been, ince we Draw"'IJ by Armstro"o Sperr), The steady thumping of the engines ally, like the heaving belly of a fallen were suppo ed to be moving ahead, or is your assurance of a heart still beat giant. We weren't making any head danglinO' from his lips. He looked at at least. holding our own. The cur ing. When it stops, you are instantl y way. It was all we could do to keep her me tho:ghtfully and then said: . " Hr rents and wind had set up ea tward. aware of danger. You hea r the sea no e into the long white-bearded seas had a little help, Rodney. QUIte a When \~e 1'0 e on the ere. ts, we could sounds - the rushing hiss and roar of. that remained in the wake of the little hcl p, as a matter of,fact." ee through the glasses palm tree bob water alongside, the eerie moaning storm. Two of our boats were gone. '·Still. he's had expenence. What hing out of the sea. It could be any of the wind through the rigging. and ripped from the davits and lost; the about the time he took the schooner one of a hundred i lands. the weird protesting groans of ~trail1' deck gear was snarled up, and the through the worst typhoon that ever Captain Grimes. after studying it ing hull and gear. radio antenna carried away. But the hit the Sulu Sea-" rarefully. observed: "It could be one I got into my clammy-damp oilskins worst was over, we thought. Mr. Barry broke in, his voice hard of the L~Raps. or Oroluk. ' and started forward, nearly running Just before noon, the second mate and fiat: "Some day you're going to "In thi kind of sea, one's as bad as into Mr. Barry, who wa hurrying aft. and I were aft of the chartroom hop learn that yarning about old wino the other if we get too close," Mr. He paused long enough to shout an inrr to aet a hot at the. un. The Tilla jammer doesn't make a ~~an a sailo;. Barry said. He had his sextant out grily: "The damned old fool!" He m~ok ,~as till lurching violently, and It makes him a has-been. Then, a If and \vas trying for a sight to check the was in a rage. I could see that, but I Mr. Benson hooked a thick rubber suddenly angry, he said: "Any t~mt' drift. "And it looks like we're going had no time for speculation. The booted leO" around the rail to brace I admit that I'm not a better saIlor to get too close if the wind doesn't Tillamook was yawing violently when himself a;he adju ted the index mir than Captain Grimes, I'll stand g~0f. shift.' I reached the bridge companion and ror of his sextant. We hadn't had a a ll around at the next port we hit. "Reminds me of the ALbatross," and pulled myself up. A snarling ea RiO'bt in two day, and d ad reckoning I heard the second mate chuc~le. Captain Crime chuckl d cr('akily. e . 1 'd foamed across the deck just blow. al· was out of the que tlOn, t le way we and then I saw the skipper stumpm/? "Fla h packet, thaL! We were running mo t pulling my feet from under mC'. been kicked around the South Parific. aft. PeerinO' at the sea and sky. he oh· with the wind on the starboard quar Then I heard the skipper's bellow: "We're somewhere outh of linto sen'ed ple~santly: "Well. gentlemen. ter. and it Ruddenly shifted to the port "Port-hard aport!" Reef," Mr. Benson said. "as I figure it. no siO'hts today. Reminds me of the heam. Well. ~ir. we hauled in the star But I wish the sky would open up for schoo~ler Zanzibar out of Boston. hoard [orebrace ,fill ed the head yards, I realized that he wanted to get the a minute or so. These waters are Thirty-one days at sea we was, and shivered the after yard and brailed in Tillcmwok's stern up to the sea, but plenty treacherous." . .. didn't see the un nor tars. Dean the mizzen. The helm hard aport. she the element took charge for some ter The mate joined us and squinted r rkonin 0' all the way-" W('nt ofT hef ore it like a feath('r:' rifying moments when she broached aloft at the blanket of cloud cudding He was still talking when Mr. Barr~ The mate threw the Captain a with to. I thought he was going over .. . southward. "The chief reporL. the walked to the companion and starten ering scowl. turned on hi heel and But there was still some seaway. and haft is running hot. If it hreaks down helow. He looked up and winked. at Went into the chartroom. The ski p by the time the mate got the sea-an again, we might ha"e trouble." Mr. l\[r. Benson. making a circular motIon per finished his yarn and said: "B('Lter chor paid out over the stern. the wind Barry looked very solemn. with his index finger near his temple. go below and get some leep. Mr. Rod was abaft the beam. The drag straight I should haye known better. but I then disappeared. I couldn't quite u~· ney. We'll need you laL 1'." ened us out, and storm oil impri oned wa youna and gre n-and tactless. derstand this contempt for Captal!1 I went helol\, 'but I cOllldn 't sleep. the crests, kept them from breaking. 0" It And beca;se I "anted the little kip Crime. Of cour e, I was youne , d I kept thinking ahont Captain Grimes. Soon we were scudding before it, safe per to ha\'e a pat on the back, I aid: was my first voyage on the bridge, an Clearly, II'. Barry thought that the enough had we only been in an open "I'm not worried-not when there'" the romance of the old ea was in 111)' skipper's mind was going, and I won sea. But we weren't. We were deep a sailor around like Cap'n Crimes. blood. J respected Mr. Barry for 1115 dered about that. There were Lime:; in the Carolines. and there was land He certainly pulled u through the seaman hI]);· T' ve never seen a mate. dead ahead! before or f'incc who did his job better. ~torm. all right." . as (To be concluded in hut \\ 11l.'n hr talked about 11lp s- . Mr. Barry tood there with hi~ till' July issue) long leg apart, swaying ",ith the h sometimes did in the officers' )1les" f rcip;hter' motion, a wet cigarelle \, hen Captain Grime:; wasn't there--
t4 t5 ~ OJf)1li:ALf- THE TALE OF THE GYASCUTUS
1n a family ~napb()ok datinl( I"u·k to The e('ond mute, a~ had n1('11 hall'. \!!R4 a corre,pondent disco\'('rh tlw alllllr--ing And cfllt'l skiJlPt'r~ juw. old BVy poem, "The Tale of the Gya~ Ill' took the anthor on hi~ hack THE SEA IS WOMAN GALAPAGOS BOUND ('utuS," for which inquiry "a~ made. It IS And leaped inlO the main; By Albert E. Idell "ithollt date, bllt is credited to the Detro't Through foam ancl spray he ('love hi, \I ay, By Felix Riesenberg, Jr. Frf'l' Pre. , and under the title of "A And sunk and ro~e agai n. Henry Holt, $2.75 !"ailor'. Yarrr" is given as follow : Through foam and spray, a l.'af!rrt' a"a~ Dodd Mead, $2.25 The an,.],or stOllt ht' hore: Ollt of his own experience in the Mer Thi, is the tale that was told to III Till. ~a ff > at I",;t, he made it fa~t, chanl :'I\arinf' in thp first World War, Albert The son of the famoll ea writer, the late By a battered a nd ~ h a tt ered so n of the And warped the ~hil' ashore! E. Idell ha. written a nOI'el of human rela· Capt. Felix Rie enber/!:, is following in hi~ sea - 'Tain't much of u job to talk ahout, tionships de eloped ahoard the .S. !lawk father's footstep Ly writing sea stories. To mn and Ill)' llIe~slllate, ilas Grt'en But a ticklish thin!! to Ree: ('ye • trite on her voyage from Los Angeles Young Felix, at the age of ten, sailed aboard When I was a guileless young marine. And Ru th'in to do, if I say it tol), through the Panama Canal to ew York. 'Twas the good , hip Gyascutlls, For that Rccond mate was me! Th., Hawkeye State was a war-built freighter the . Y. tate Training hip, ".\'ewpo rt," \11 in the China seas, and of her human rarp;o the most interestinp; commanded by his fathf'l'. Ill' served four With the wind a-lee and the capstan free ueh wu the tale that wa. told to me, lind dominant male, Dr. Carl Brandt, had I'cars in the Amf'rir-an '[erehant Mar ine and To ('atch the slimmer breeze. flY that modt> t and truthful Ron of the ' ea, Il('en mentully damaged by his war ex o\'nd I ('11\)' the life of a <('('ond mat then became , hippinf! rditor of thf' San 'TwlIs 'aptain Porgie on the deck, periences. ITow hI' fights hi. way hack to Thoul!h ('uptain cur,e him and !--ai lor hate. Francisco News. To hi>, mate in the mizzen hato-h. normal with the help of a young woman While thl." hoatswain bold in the forward For Iw airr't likf' 'onw of tlw ~ " ah~ I'\,(' ",'pn. mi. hionan' \\ho for til(' first time falls really This book, an advcntu"e story fo r nld!'r hold, J\~ w("I1d 1(0 and Ii,' to a /,oor murinf'. in 10\l' , is- thr thread of the story. But weav Was winding hi~ larboard watrh. boy" will also intf're 1 ~eamen. yachtsmen, ing in and out are the stories of the other "Oh, holl' does our good ;,hip I'f'ad to THE NANCY LEE pa. -engers, the Dutch nurse, the Brooklyn and fi hermen, for it deal with tuna fi shing night? he's outll a' d bound - hull down - cour-e school teacher, the forgotten movie idol, the - the most daring, rigorous work that men lIow heads our !!,allant craft ·?" true bridal couple ... Good, not too heavy, do at sea. The story involves opinm smuf( "Oh, shc heads to the E.S.W. I, y N., You ('UII see the mlldge from her ,tack. SI1("s only a trump, and a slow one, too: reading for the ummel' hammo k. /!:Iinf!, and the sf'lling is the Purific and I\nd tlH' hinnacle li('s abaft!" P.W. "Oh, what docs th .. quadrant indi' : (~\'" But slw flutter tht' llrrion .Jack. thf' Galapaf!os IslllndR. Likf' his fath('r, Ft'li" "Inel how does thl' sextant stand? Bplol", Iwr dirt)' f'n/!in." pound Rit' enberg, Jr. has the "frcl" of the ea "Oh, the ,extant's do"n to the fret'zing Likf' raucnl1~, ht'atinp: hummers: THE CRUISE OF THE anr! writes with thf' eA. f' that comp" from point. Hpr di. clrurp:<", feed, and fuel pump' knowing his subject tllOroughly. \nd tht' quadrant' lo!'t a hand '" Send up di~rorrlant clamori'. BREADWINNER \ nd deep in holds 8ud hi{-!:h in shroud, and l\f. D. C. "Oh, and if the quadrant ha~ lost n hand, By H. E. Bates nd the sextant falls _0 low, hoYcrin!!' at the II heel, It', our hodie. and bont' to Da,-y .lo,1P From ho\\,- prit point to !
/6 SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK
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