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In Praise of Sailors PAGE 3 THE STAR The seamen of all nationalities, TO EVERY WANDERING BARK and creeds come into the Program New York every year, To by the Reverend William McCall Haynsworth, them the Institute is their SCI Director ofPastoral and Social Services of the center in port and remains Institute polestar while they transit distant oceans of the earth, "And all I ask is a tall ship First established in 1834 and a star to steer her by," floating chapel in New York harbor, the Institute offers a John Masefield _"Sea Fever." range of recreational, Seamen's Church Mariners' educational , and speCial Institute of International Center New York and (SCt) for the mariner, including New Jersey Ports Newark/ counseling and the help of 15 State Street Elizabeth, N.J. A century and a half ago in the New York, N.Y. chaplains in emergency year 1839 (an era when the situations. Seamen's Church Institute of New More than 3,500 ships with York and New Jersey had just 140,000 men aboard an begun its ministry to seamen) a in at Pts, Newark/Elizabeth. young man arrived in New York I:OOK@UT where time ashore is with expectations of romantic Vol. 70 No.2 March-April 1979 limited , liberation on his mind and one SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE Here in the very middle dollar in his pocket. Intelligent, OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY huge sprawling Pts. handsome and stalwart, he had 15 State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004 Elizabeth pulsing with decided to abandon the bleak Telephone: (212) 269-2710 prospects of employment in the container-shipping, SCI The Right Reverend agrarian economy of upstate New Paul Moore, Jr., S.T.D., D.O., Honorary President provided an oasis known During the past several years an York and to take his chances in the John G. Winslow, President Mariners' International increasing number of men both adventurous world of seafaring. The Rev. James R. Whittemore, Director which offers seamen a Carlyle Windley, Editor young and not-so-young have Toting a sea bag on his shoulder, he recreational center es~)ecia arrived in my office with the made his way down Wall Street to US ISSN 0024-6425 constructed , designed question: How can I become a "Coffee House Slip" on the East operated in a special way seaman? Underlying the question River. There at the foot of that PUblished bi·mon thly with exception of May and De· very special needs of the is an attitude which often seems to famous street where all the mixed cember wh en monthly. ContributIo ns to the Sea- say: "I want to get into that giant company of the shipping men's Church In stitute of New York and New Jersey outstanding feature is a of $5.00 or more In clude a year' s subscription 10 The field (lighted by night) for steel womb and leave the world community congregated, he found Lookout. Single copies 50¢ . Additio nal postage for behind." This yearning to escape a ajob and signed on the packet ship Canada . Lalin America, Spain , $1.00: other foreign, between ship teams, $3.00. Second class po stage paid at New York , N.Y. troubled environment with its bound for LiverpooL Although 63% of the St. Laurence complexity of economic problems is Although his capacity on board Cover: Lighthouse at Pornt Reyes, California. Photo Institute budget is met by certainly not a new phenomenon. the St, Laurence was ordinary by R.F . Campbell. from seamen and the contributions. ~ Seamen's Church Institute 0' New York and New Jersey, 1979 tax-deductible. PAGE 5 PAGE 4 -----------------------------~~~---------------------------- Pip the gentle black cabin-boy; or t he South Street ~~rrne~ ted C apta i~ Ahab who, inst~ad of around 1887.~· bsessively pursumg the gIant white Photo: Courtesy :hale, might in today's world emerge as New York the proverbial alcoholic ready to run his H istorical SOciety hip onto the rocks. Melville's seafal'ers ~raw upon our sympathy not just beca use of the harsh conditions with which t hey " had to contend, but in understanding their loneliness and isolation. Only th en can the reader begin to comprehend their qualities of strength as well as theil' weaknesses. I Moby-Dick was first published in • London where it was acclaimed as a masterpiece. But the London reviewers were quick to call it a fraud: "No I American ordinary seaman could wl'ite like this," they claimed. How wrong those Herman Melville returned to the sea. In seaman, he was a most extraordinary could excel this graduate of "the ship." In English critics were! The American 1860 he was the guest-passenger of his terms of emotional stress, Melville must I seafaring tradition is a remarkably brother, Captain Thomas Melville, on the person. When he walked up the gangway that fateful day, he could not have have paid a costly tuition for the tough literary one, replete with such sea-going clipper ship Meteor, out of the Port of imagined that he was destined to have a education he received during his sea Boston. During the course of the long profound influence in improving the journeys. Van Wyck Brooks, in voyage, the shi p rounded the Horn. It had living and working conditions of future commenting on Melville's stamina to just passed the islands of Tierra del American seamen. It is an interesting endure such an education, observes that, Fuego and was headed through some of fact that this remarkable man, now "Stout as he was in muscle and bone, with the most terrifying seas on the face ofthe firmly established as a bright jewel of the physical courage to spare, he had never earth when Melville wrote the following American literary tradition, was born on imagined a forecastle and the horrors passage in a letter to his eldest son back the site of the present Institute building. that occurred in that gloomy hole where in Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Located on the west wall of the building seamen burrowed like rabbits in a "September 1, 1860. We were off Cape near the Pearl Street entrance is a bronze warren and the eager, romantic, Horn, the Southernmost point of all plaque, erected by the New York sensitive boy, friendless and alone, America. Now it was very bad weather, Community Trust, which states: encountered evils that one could hardly and was dark at about 3 o'clock in the think of." afternoon. The wind blew terribly. We However sordid life in the forecastle had hailstorms, and the snow and sleet, J may have been, Melville described that and often the spray froze as it touched the A House on This Site was the Birthplace HERMAN MELVILLE place as being populated with the CIRCA 1847 deck. The ship rolled, and sometimes took of the Novelist and Poet battered and cast-off furniture of the in so much water on deck as to wash HERMAN MELVILLE (18 19-1891) shoreside world. "Sons of adversity and authors as Richard Henry Dana, James people off their legs. Several sailors were Moby-Dick Among HIs Numerous Sea Tales calamity," he called his shipmates. When Fenimore Cooper, Eugene O'Neill and washed along the deck this way, and he writes of them, in Moby-Dick for Jack London. Herman Melville was to came near getting washed overboard. example, they emerge as full-blooded, become the "top-sail yarn-spinner" of And this reminds me of a very sad thing In later years, when literary fame had authentic sea-going types like Starbuck, them all! that happened the very morning we were thrust him into the limelight, Herman the serene, practical mate of the Pequod, It is an ancient tradition that the sa ilor off the Cape - I mean the very "pitch" of Melville claimed with pride that, "The is forever on the verge of abandoning the (Con tinued) foc'sle was my Harvard and Yale." It sea, although he almost never does. could be said that these two ancient When he was fifty years old and his citadels of learning have never in all short-lived fame had turned to ashes, their existence produced a writer who PAGE 6 PAGE 7 the Cape. It was just about daylight; it Recognizing the wide spectrum of He entitled it, Post-Operative: was blowing a gale of wind; and Uncle advancements in the world of American I cannot put in words just how I feel. Tom ordered the topsails (big sails) to be , shipping, it must be noted that the Nor yet commit to silent ecstasy furled. Whilst the sailors were aloft on human problems associated with This fact of my survival, though I reel one of the yards, the ship rolled and . lation, loneliness and boredom are the Like one death-sentenced prisoner plunged terribly; and it blew sleet and ~i~toric pitfalls of seafaring which set free hail, and was very cold and biting. Well, I threaten the health and productivity of a Before the prospect of longevity. all at once, Uncle Tom saw something I-. ship'S crew. The necessary pattern oflife Thenceforth I shall not in the falling through the air, and then heard a n shipboard contributes to these shadows wait, thump, and then, looking before him, saw ~roblem s: The seaman stands his watch Myself a shade, for shadows yet to be, a poor sailor lying dead on the deck. He in silence and often alone; off-duty he has In common fiefdom; chattel to my fate. had fallen from the yard, and was killed the limited option of seeking to find some But strike-out boldly as behooves instantly.
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