Day-to-day work on the barge: cooking, deck work, engine room work, loading and unloading coal, washing down the deck
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A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Also includes 1 newspaper article. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Also includes 3 newspaper articles. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Also includes 6 newspaper articles. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Also includes 2 watercolor paintings and 2 newspaper articles. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Also includes 3 drawings and 3 newspaper articles. The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
A scrapbook containing photographs of seafarers, ships and port scenes from around the world. Inscription reads: "To Mrs. E. M. Baxter, Commemorating nine years of esteemed friendship, "Vires acquirit eundo," Apprentices' Room, SCI, New York, Oct. 2nd, 1930." The scrapbook was most likely compiled by Mrs. Edith Baxter, Supervisor of the Apprentice Room at 25 South Street, SCI’s headquarters from 1913-1967.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1846
Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Appendix: Report of the Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Missionary; and Extracts From the Missionary's Minutes of His Labors.
Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York
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Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1847
Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Annual Report of Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Missionary.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1848
Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Report from B. C. C. Parker and Annual Report and Sermon from Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, Missionary.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1849
Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Report from B. C. C. Parker and Annual Report from D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1850
Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker and Rev. D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1851
Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker and Rev. D. V. M. Johnson.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1852
Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1853
Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1854
Tenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1855
Eleventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, E. F. Remington. and a Statement from Charles Ely.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1856
Twelfth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1857
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. J. M. Waite, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1858
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. B. C. C. Parker, Rev. J. M. Waite, and E. F. Remington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1859
Fifteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Joseph M. Waite and Rev. Robert J. Walker, and a memorial for the late Rev. B. C. C. Parker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1860
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Joseph M. Waite, Rev. Robert J. Walker and B. S. Huntington.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1861
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Robert J. Walker, B. S. Huntington and Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1862
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Robert J. Walker, B. S. Huntington, R. G. Quennell and Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1863
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Robert J. Walker and Rev. R. G. Quennell.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1864
Twentieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1865
Twenty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1866
Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1867
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1868
Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1869
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1870
Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Robert J. Walker and Charles Blake.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1871
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert W. Lewis, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1872
Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker and Rev. Henry Floy Roberts.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1873
Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts and Rev. Isaac Maguire.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1874
Thirtieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1875
Thirty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1876
Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1877
Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1878
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Henry Floy Roberts, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1879
Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1880
Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1881
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1882
Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1883
Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1884
Fortieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1885
Forty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1886
Forty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1887
Forty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1888
Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1889
Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1890
Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rev. T. A. Hyland, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1891
Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Arthur H. Proffitt, T. A. Hyland, Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1892
Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Arthur H. Proffitt, Walter A. A. Gardner, Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1893
Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Edward Rode.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1894
Fiftieth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and O. Egerton Schmidt.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1895
Fifty-First Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. William A. Dalton, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and B. F. Butler.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1896
Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and W. H. Wells.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1897
Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Communication from Captain A. T. Mahan and Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and W. H. Wells.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1898
Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Communication from Rev. Henry C. Potter and Captain A. T. Mahan; Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1899
Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1900
Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Albert G. Thorp.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1901
Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Isaac Maguire and Chas. H. Easton.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1902
Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Robert T. McGusty, Augusta Morris De Peyster, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Roy Farrel Duffield, Chas H. Easton, Edmund Lincoln Baylies and William H. Butterworth.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1903
Fifty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, Rev. Roy Farrel Duffield, Robert T. McGusty, Chas. H. Easton and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1904
Sixtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1905
Sixty-First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York - Annual Report - 1845
First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York. Includes appendix: Act of Incorporation.
Includes "Rapture in Blue," "Do You Know Your Money?," "How the Ukulele Got Its Name," "Colonial Cookery," "The Taste of Salt"
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Includes entries from visitors to Coenties Slip, where SCI operated an outpost beginning in the 1850s and ending in 1906. Also included are entries from SCI's Missionary at Large, the Rev. Isaac Maguire.
Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield 1897 April 6
Includes the manuscript of the Annual Report of the Chaplain, East River Station, handwritten by Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield on the Tuesday of Easter Week, 1897.
Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker - Journals of the Floating Church of Our Saviour - Index and Transcription
Includes all six of the journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866 as well as an Index to the journals and transcriptions of selected passages.
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1843 July 17 - 1844 June 30
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Includes entries detailing the first service at the Seamen’s Episcopal Chapel, founded above a grog shop at the corner of Pike and South Streets (July 17, 1843); the service surrounding the raising of the frame ceremony for the Institute’s first floating chapel (November 30, 1843); Rev. Parker’s sermon to more than one hundred seafarers regarding the wreck of the Sheffield (December 2, 1843); the peaceful and successful seafarers’ strike for higher wages that took place over December 3-10, 1843; the completion of construction on the Floating Church of Our Saviour and its consecration at Pike Street (February 14 and 19, 1844); overcrowding at the Church during its first months in service; general accounts of the exploitation of seafarers and the “almost daily recitals” that come to Rev. Parker’s ears; Rev. Parker’s doubts about continuing as the Institute’s Missionary; the decision by the Board to install Rev. Parker as Missionary on a permanent basis.
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1844 July 7 - 1845 November 9
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Includes entries detailing Rev. Parker’s visits to boarding houses (September 29, 1844); the breaking of the Church’s mooring chains in a storm (September 29, 1844); Rev. Parker’s attendance on the maiden voyage of the Clipper Ship Rainbow, for which he had secured a library of 200 volumes (February 1, 1845); the publication and distribution of the “Manual of Devotion;” damage done to the Church during a snowstorm (February 3, 1845); the time Rev. Parker spent in Boston in May of 1845 assisting in the location of a floating church for seafarers there (May 12, 1845); Rev. Parker’s trip to Albany in June of 1845 to see about building a new chapel at the North River (June 17, 1845); Rev. Parker’s trip to Dr. J.W. Francis at 1 Bond Street to be bled (September 1, 1845).
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1845 November 16 - 1846 November 23
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Includes entries detailing the donation from an unknown gentleman of $2000 for the first and projected second floating chapels (November 17, 1845); a visit from Capt. Hilliard, one of two survivors of the steamer Lexington, which sank off the coast of Long Island (November 23, 1845); a visit from Rev. Mr. Suddards as part of a Committee planning to build a floating chapel for seafarers in Philadelphia (November 30, 1845); the signing of a contract to build a floating chapel at the North River (February 7, 1846); a report on the moral pollution of New York City’s theaters (March 4, 1846); the funeral of J.R. Van Rensselaer, Vice President of the Society for Seamen (March 22, 1846); the finish of construction on the Church of the Holy Comforter, anchored at Dey Street, and the first services held there (September 28-29, 1846); the story of Charles Hernberg, a seafarer who became the Sexton of the Church of the Holy Comforter.
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1846 November 23 - 1848 June 16
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Entries detailing the scarcity of seafarers in port (November 29, 1846); Rev. Parker’s sermon on the wreck of the steamship Atlantic (December 20 and 27, January 3 and 10, 1846); Rev. Parker’s securing of the Atlantic bell and its engraving and exhibition (January 5-16, February 12 and 27, 1847); the story of William Hobdell of the ship Sir Robert, having lived among cannibals for nine years (April 20, 1847); a man overboard in front of the Church (June 13, 1847); Rev. Parker’s funeral sermon for the crew of the Auburn, wrecked off Barnegatt, Long Beach on September 25, 1847 (October 10, 1847); Rev. Parker’s sermon delivered to a black congregation at the Church of the Messiah (October 31, 1847); Rev. Parker’s sermon on the wreck of the ship Stephen Whitney, all hands lost on November 17, 1847 (December 19, 1847); Rev. Parker’s visit to William Chase, U.S. Consul at Good Hope to see the first native of Caffraria (South Africa) brought to the U.S. (February 6, 1848); Rev. Parker’s sermon delivered at the Seamen’s Mission Church in Boston (February 14, 1848).
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1848 June 16 - 1850 August 12
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Includes entries detailing the bestowing of the Freedom of the City to Frederick Jerome for rescuing fifteen people from the bowsprit of the burning ship New World and the attendance at the Church of the crew from the rescue boat involved (September 18, 24, and 28, 1848); the attendance of the Excelsior Tent and the Washington Marine Tent of the Independent Order of the Rechabites at the funeral of Charles Smith at the Church (November 26, 1848); the resolution of the Board to hold evening services at the Church and the first evening service held there (December 16, 1848 and February 25, 1849); Rev. Parker’s sermon to a black congregation at the Church of the Messiah at Houston Street (December 24, 1849); Rev. Parker’s attendance at the consecration of the Floating Church of the Redeemer in Philadelphia (January 9-11, 1849); accounts of baptisms, prayers and special services for seafarers preparing to sail for California hoping to cash in on the Gold Rush there; the attendance of Capt. Johnson and the crew of the brig Manhattan at the Church in thanks for being saved from shipwreck (April 1, 1849); Rev. Parker delivers Sermon on the Cholera amidst outbreak and calls for a Public Fast Day (July 29 and August 4, 1849); the conversion of boarding house owners at 45 James Street to temperance and the banning of liquor at that establishment (November 4 and 11, 1849); damage done to the Church by a brig (December 22, 1849); Rev. Parker’s sermon on the rescue of three hundred ninety-nine people from the ship Caleb Grimshaw by the bark Sarah with Captains from both ships in attendance (January 27, 1850); Rev. Parker’s accompaniment of his wife to Boston via the Hartford-New Haven Railroad, which commenced service in 1844 (May 27, 1850).
Journal of the Floating Church of Our Saviour 1850 August 18 - 1853 November 20
One of six journals of Rev. Benajmin C. C. Parker, Reverend at the Floating Church of Our Saviour, which operated on the waterfront at Pike Street from 1844-1866. Includes entries detailing the funeral of Capt. William Dayton, member of the Board of Managers (August 18, 1850); the decoration of the Church in Christmas greens (December 23-24, 1850); the unprecedented attendance of two hundred seafarers at the Church (October 5, 1851); the sermon of newly appointed “Missionary at Large” Rev. Mr. Remington delivered at the Church (March 14, 1852); the funeral of Atong, a Chinese seafarer from the ship N.B. Palmer (April 4, 1852); Rev. Parker’s attendance at the opening of a new building for children at Sailor’s Snug Harbor in Staten Island (June 3, 1852); Rev. Parker’s sermon at St. John’s Church, Yonkers, on the burning of the steamer Henry Clay ten miles from Fort Lee on July 26, 1852 (August 1, 1852); the sinking of the Church under the weight of snow on her roof (January 14, 1853); the services held at the reading room of the Sailor’s Home at 190 Cherry Street (January 16, 1853); the raising and repairing of the Church (January 17-22, 1853); the scarcity of seafarers in port (April 3-10, 1853); the damage done to the Church by the sloop Advocate (April 19, 1853); the return of Frederick Jerome, who rescued fifteen people from the burning ship New World in 1848, to the Church despite reports that he had been killed in St. Juan two years prior (September 18, 1853).
Franklin D. Roosevelt served on SCI’s Board of Managers from 1908 until his death in 1945.
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The first Floating Church of Our Savior, moored at the foot of Pike Street in 1844 and in operation until 1868. The Church was converted from the ferryboat MANHATTAN and presided over by the Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker.
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York
black and white photographs and lantern slides
The second Floating Church of Our Savior, including photos of Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield’s last service at the second Floating Church of Our Savior in 1910, the towing of the church to Staten Island in 1911, and All Saints Episcopal Church in Staten Island (formerly the second Floating Church of Our Savior) before and during the fire that destroyed it in 1958.
Includes entries from visitors to Coenties Slip, where SCI operated an outpost beginning in the 1850s and ending in 1906. Also included are entries from SCI's Missionary at Large, first established with the Rev. E.F. Remington in 1852, succeeded by the Rev. Robert J. Walker in 1859.
Includes entries from visitors to Coenties Slip, where SCI operated an outpost beginning in the 1850s and ending in 1906. Also included are entries from SCI's Missionary at Large, the Rev. Robert J. Walker.
Board of Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society for Seamen in the City and Port of New York
The basement included the baggage and laundry rooms.
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These photos show mariners dining at the cafeteria as well as the kitchen, workers, and murals on the walls.
Photographs
Boarding rooms, including one under construction and an early architectural rendering
architectural drawing
photographs
Merchant mariners waiting and socializing in SCI's lobby.
SCI ran a small publishing house out of the Magazine Room.
15 State Street Cornerstone Laying Ceremony
Rededication of the cornerstone from 25 South Street to 15 State Street. Rev. Pictured are Roscoe T. Foust, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Franklin E. Vilas.
SCI operated a reading room at 21 Coenties Slip from 1889-1906.
SCI's third headquarters started construction in 1989 and opened in May 1991.
color photographs
Chris Svendsen at 241 Water Street Exhibit Gallery
Mariner Chris Svendsen observing ship models at Water Street Galleries, which exhibited ship models, oil paintings, prints, and engravings.
25 South Street Alcoholics Assitance Bureau
SCI's Department of Special Services founded the Alcoholics Assistance Bureau in 1945 in cooperation with the Seamen's Branch of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Danish Seamen's Club was opened in February 1945 in SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street.
25 South Street Seamen's Savings Department
The Seamen's Savings Department (also known as the Seamen's Funding Department and the Seamen's Wages Department) was set up for mariners to save money or send money home.
black and white photographs and colored lantern slides
A dining room on its opening day December 3, 1928 and the Officer's Dining Room circa 1913.
The new entrance to 25 South Street opened on March 5, 1928. Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Janet L. Roper, the Sir Galahad Memorial, and Christmas decorations are shown.
The Dutch Seamen's Club opened in 1940 in SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street. Photos of the club's wall mural are included along with Jean Hersholt, Lauritz Melchior, and Victor Borge.
The SCI employment bureau located temporary jobs for unemployed mariners.
Black and white, sepia, and color photographs, postcards, drawings, and lantern slides of the exterior of 25 South Street. The building is shown in the New York City skyline, with aerial views, shots of the building with and without the annex, views of the building during the evening with the illuminated cross and Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, and preparation of the building for demolition in 1968.
photographs and lantern slides
drawings
The game room was set up at SCI to help entertain mariners with bowling, billiards, card games, checkers and chess. Represented are Trevor M. Barlow playing billiards, Janet L. Roper bowling, and child cadet P.T. Lewis and engineer John Dunn of the torpedoed freighter Winkleigh playing checkers.
Mariners and employees waiting in line for accommodations
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25 South Street Hotel Rooms and Dormitories
Private rooms and shared dormitories for sailors. Some are shown under renovation.
International Seamen's Club at 15 State Street
The International Seamen's Club was a meeting place that also held events, such as the Charles Rouse concert in May 1974 and the Halloween Dance in 1974, both pictured here. Rev. James R. Whittemore and members of the National Maritime Union are also pictured.
International Seamen's Club at 25 South Street
The International Seamen's Club was a meeting place that also held events. The filming of NBC documentary "The City of Ships" in 1964 is also pictured.
The lobby served as a meeting and waiting place, and featured a mural, United Nations flags, an elaborate floor compass, and seasonal decorations.
Painted by Lt. Cmdr. Edmond James Fitzgerald , the 37-foot mural depicted the role of merchant mariners in the World War II Normandy invasion. In addition to views of the mural, Capt. Percy H. Hauffman, 2Asst. Engr. Francis E. Rack, Alexander Waigant, Sten Nordh, L. Gordon Hamersley, Robert A. Constantine, and Clarence G. Michalis are shown at the unveiling.
The Marine Museum began on the third floor of 25 South Street in 1953 and continued exhibiting items donated by mariners and shipping lines until SCI relocated to 15 State Street in 1968. Photos show the museum as well as mariner Chris Svendsen building and observing ship models and Rev. John M. Mulligan inspecting museum objects.
black and white photographs and a lantern slide
The print shop printed The Lookout magazine, flyers, and event announcements for both distribution to mariners in town and for mailing to SCI donors.
Seamen enjoying their lounge. Janet L. Roper is shown in some photos.
The sloppe chest distributed clothing, shoes, socks, underwear, and toiletries to shipwrecked mariners.
Swedish Seamen's Club at 25 South Street
SCI provided a tailor on site to help alter seamen's clothing.
25 South Street William D. Tracy Dental Clinic
Men's Shelter at 39th Street Ferry Terminal (Battery Maritime Building)
The 39th Street Ferry House Men's Shelter was built in response to the Panic of 1920. In cooperation with the Department of Public Welfare and the Mayor's Committee on Relief, SCI opened this temporary station for unemployed seamen on November 7, 1921. This facility provided beds, hot showers, laundry services and food for 500 men each night until it closed on April 15, 1922.
This building was located where at the current Battery Maritime Building at the end of FDR drive on the southern tip of Manhattan
The International Society for the Aid of Greek Seamen (ANGYRA)
ANGYRA was established in 1952 and moves it's offices into SCI's 25 South Street headquarters in 1958.
Series Photographs Item Relations This item has no relations. Citation “ANGYRA - International Society for the Aid of Greek Seamen,” SCI Digital Archives, accessed August 4, 2017, http://seamenschurch-archives.org/sci/items/show/79.
SCI announced plans to build an annex to 25 South Street in 1924. Construction began in 1925 and the annex officially opened in 1928. The old buildings on Front Street, demolished in 1925 to build the annex, construction of the annex, and a partially finished view of the annex are shown.
Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for the 25 South Street Annex
Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Edmund L. Baylies, Adm. William S. Sims and Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield are shown at the cornerstone dedication service for the 25 South Street Annex on November 5, 1925
The Apprentice Room provided young men a place to read and play games under the supervision of Edith Baxter.
black and white photographs, postcards and lantern slides
The Atlantic Bell was salvaged from the shipwrecked steamer Atlantic at Fishers Island, NY
The auditorium held a wide variety of events. In addition to the empty and filled room, there is a photograph of a man operating equipment backstage and one of members of the United States Coast Guard during a training exercise.
SCI Headquarters at 1 State Street (Battery Station)
Battery Station at 1 State Street was SCI's headquarters from 1902-1913 and former home of Robert Fulton (1765-1815). One photograph is from after SCI's tenancy in February 1944.
Rev. Bauer was the chaplain of the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y.
Edmund L. Baylies was President of SCI from 1913 until his death on April 29, 1932.
black and white photograph, memorial tablet
"Ships, the Lifeline of Britain" Benefit Party
Marie Louise Bennett was personal secretary to Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield from 1910 until her death in 1921.
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SCI board members including Edmund L. Baylies, Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Radm. Alfred T. Mahan, Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, and Rev. John M. Mulligan.
The Breakwater Hotel was operated by SCI from 1908-1913.
black and white photograph and lantern slides
Brooklyn Station was operated by SCI from 1904-1907.
NYS Canal Systems Operations, including Erie Barge Canal and Lock #2 in Waterford, NY.
SCI owned property within Cedar Grove cemetery to bury merchant mariners without relatives.
Centennial celebrations including "Shanghaiing in a Waterfront Dive", a set designed by Gordon Grant, and a portrait of Sir Ashley Sparks, Christopher Morley, Charles R. Patterson and Radm. Reginald R. Belknap.
The chapel held many events, notably Maundy Thursday service and the baptism of the son of Henry C. B. Lindh, member of the Board of Managers, by Rev. John M. Mulligan.
The chapel held regular services for mariners. Rev. James R. Whittemore and Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., 13th Bishop of New York, are pictured.
The chapel held regular services, as well as Christmas (and other holiday) services, weddings, and funerals. Included is a group portrait of Rev. Lawrence A. Harkness, Rt. Rev. William T. Manning and Rev. Harold H. Kelley, photos of Rev. Raymond S. Hall and Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, and a group portrait of Revs. Joseph D. Huntley, James Savoy, G. Basil Hollas, William Haynsworth, Richard J. Bauer, Francis D. Daley, Roscoe T. Foust, John M. Mulligan and Charles Boyton. The stained glass windows were provided by funds from the legacy of William H. Vanderbilt in 1888, and the altar's reredos seascape was painted by Gordon Grant.
The reredos seascape mural was painted by Gordon Grant
All Saints Episcopal Church was formerly the second Floating Church of Our Savior (1869-1911).
Activities of the department included the Argo Merchant Liberian Inquiry with Jan D. Uiterwyk, which was held in the Ship Model Room on the third floor.
Devens began serving on SCI's board of managers in 1958.
SCI operated the East River Station from 1869-1906
SCI employees at work and at Christmas, Thanksgiving, and retirement parties. Among the employees represented are Edith Baxter, Ida Cathers, Rev. Francis D. Daley, Sal DiLapi, Betty Eberhardt, Rev. Roscoe T. Foust, John Peter Johanson, Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Frances Kellogg, Charlotte Kennedy, Rev. John M. Mulligan, Janet L. Roper, Beth Tierney, and Leslie C. Westerman.
Exhibits including the Old Synod Hall exhibit held at the Cathedral St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.) ca. 1915; the Tri-Annual Convention of the Episcopal Church held in Detroit (Mich.) ca. 1919, with Trevor M. Barlow, Marie Louise Bennett, John Johanson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, and Janet L. Roper; General Conventions of the Episcopal Church held in Atlantic City (N.J.) ca. 1934, Kansas City (Mo.) ca. 1940, and San Francisco (Calif.) ca. 1949; and motorboat shows ca. 1933, 1934 (showing Otto Lang sitting at a table making a rope bag), 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1947.
The Fir Grove ship is pictured in port in Seattle (Wash.) Inui Steamship Company, the owner of Fir Grove and its sister ships Pine Forest and Southern Aster, was found guilty on October 14, 1992 of wage abuse and faulty bookkeeping by the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. The 21-member Filipino crew, with the help of SCI, filed suit against Inui Steamship Company and were awarded $40 million, the largest maritime wage settlement in history.
Damaged boats including Cape Race on May 24, 1950; Cape North on May 24, 1950 and August 17, 1950; and Cape Donlen on May 25, 1950.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Institute of Maritime and General Studies
The institute was housed at 15 State Street, SCI's headquarters from 1968-1985.
Rev. Raymond S. Hall was the director of SCI from 1948-1960. Rev. Hall is shown with wife and son on deck of S. S. Independence; interacting with mariners; speaking at the American Association of Port Authorities’ 40th Annual Convention on Oct. 27, 1951; at the National Conference of Seamen’s Agencies on the Dalzell tugboat in June 1955; on the “Tompkinsville” ferry celebrating the 50th anniversary of ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan in 1955; attending Graduation Day at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point (N.Y.) with wife on Feb. 24, 1956; and at the Communion Breakfast of the St. George Association on May 24, 1959.
This annual event was held at SCI's Port Newark Station. Color photographs are from 1987, black and white photographs are from 1985.
The J. Hooker Hamersley was given to SCI in 1915. In addition to transporting crews to and from ships, the boat was used as a training vessel during World War I.
James Slip at South Street, New York, NY
The Janet Roper club provided seafarers with a place to take their friends and families for entertainment and leisure activities. Pictured are Madeleine Carroll selling war bonds and stamps on September 23, 1943; a luncheon on May 18, 1954 with Clarence G. Michalis; Rev. Raymond S. Hall with Hy Gardner during the filming of the NBC television program “Tonight” in 1957; and volunteer Helen Adams talking to United States Coast Guard officer Joseph Pisarra.
Jeanette Park was located next to SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street
J. Augustus Johnson was elected as Lay Manager to SCI’s Board of Managers in 1882. Johnson also served as Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and fought for seafarers’ legal protection. He succeeded in convincing Congress to pass the White Bill, which granted mariners comprehensive rights.
The Joseph Conrad Library was located at 25 South Street and 15 State Street, SCI's headquarters from 1913-1967 and 1968-1985, respectively. A bust and portraits of Joseph Conrad are included. Of particular note is the presentation of the Conrad Collection to the Joseph Conrad Library by B. Anne Papantonio, Executive Vice President of the Johnson Reprint Corporation, on April 11, 1983. Also shown are Frank Huntington, SCI’s Director of Education; SCI librarians Bonnie Golightly and Bob Wolk; and maritime historian Frank Braynard.
Rev. Harold H. Kelley was director of SCI from 1934-1948. Rev. Kelly is seen with Bishop Charles Gilbert and Rev. Lawrence A. Harkness; with Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, the Archbishop of York Cyril F. Garbett, and president of the Board of Managers, Clarence G. Michalis, in 1946; at the launching of the MS Rio de la Plata in Chester (Pa.) in 1941; and possibly giving the invocation on the steps of the United States Sub treasury building for National Maritime Day in 1944.
Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield was Superintendent of SCI from 1898-1934. The dual celebration of Rev. Mansfield's 60th birthday and 35th anniversary as Superintendent, the Liberty Class 441’ freighter (named after him), memorial plaques and a portrait of Rev. Mansfield’s wife, Ella Louise Huntington Mansfield, are shown.
Richard was the eldest son of Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Mariner 15 Bar & Lounge at 15 State Street
John Masefield was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. Masefield is shown with his wife, Constance Crommelin, and with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield on the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse at 25 South Street on Jan. 4, 1933. Masefield is also seen at a benefit in his honor at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 9, 1933.
SCI doctors using the radio station KDKF in 1920 or 1921
Memorial Day services in Ocean View Cemetery on May 30, 1930, at Jeanette Park on May 30, 1932 (with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield placing a wreath on the bandstand) ,and on the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse at 25 South Street are shown.
SCI’s Merchant Marine School was formerly called New York School of Navigation and Navigation and Marine Engineering School
Clarence G. Michalis was a member of SCI’s Board of Managers from 1924-1969. Michalis served as President from 1932-1957 and as Chairman from 1958-1969.
The Missing Seamen Bureau was founded in 1919 by Janet L. Roper and the Religious and Social Work Department to help families and friends locate missing seafarers. Miriam Goetz is featured.
This exhibit was used for advertising SCI’s Modernization Fund. Clarence G. Michalis, President of SCI’s Board of Managers, is also shown speaking at the final report meeting of the Modernization Fund on Jan. 8, 1945.
Rev. John M. Mulligan was Director of SCI from 1960-1977. In addition to portraits, Rev. Mulligan is shown receiving identification as New Protestant Chaplain of the Port of New York on April 8, 1965 and at Bard College’s Commencement Weekend on June 15-16, 1968.
A 1950 Mobile, Ala. meeting of the National Council of Seamen's Agencies (later North American Maritime Ministry Association) and an overhead crowd shot taken aboard a ship in 1953 are shown.
Aerial and Landscape Views of New York City
SCI's headquarters at 25 South Street and 15 State Street can be seen in some of these photographs.
The New York Port Society was founded in 1818 by merchants and shipbuilders to promote Christianity among merchant mariners.
North River Station (with Church of the Holy Comforter)
North River Station was operated by SCI from 1888-1923.
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The first Operation Sail event, a tie-in with the New York World's Fair, brought tall ships from around the world to New York Harbor for a grand parade of sail up the Hudson.
Rev. Benjamin C. C. Parker was SCI's first missionary. Rev. Parker worked with SCI from 1843-1859.
Seafarers Center at the 92 North River Piers Passenger Ship Terminal
the Seafarers Center at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal, 92 North River Piers, New York (N.Y.) The center was opened by SCI and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the mid-1980s to provide mariners with the means to telephone home
John H. G. Pell began serving on SCI's Board of Managers in 1936.
Pictured is a tent service on Pier 5, close to the Coenties Slip Station. The Coenties Slip Station was largely planned as an outdoor establishment, and as such church services were held outside underneath a tent.
Aerial Views of Port Newark (Port Authority)
Aerial views of facilities at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Facilities shown are: Howland Hook Marine Terminal, Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal, and Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Termin
Port Newark Station was built in the 1960s by the Weny Bros & Storms Co. The original building, opened on July 17,1961, the second building, opened at the end of 1965. A photograph shows James C. Kellogg III and W. Lawrence Mc Lane at the lease signing ceremony for the Port Newark Station. Also shown is the sport field of Seaman’s Church Institute, ground being broken for new buildings, and a renovation project in the early to late 1990s.
Rev. Jean R. Smith, Director of Center for Seafarers’ Services, is shown in conversation with various individuals. Chefs in the kitchen of the restaurant preparing meals, and merchant marines enjoying their leisure time are also shown. The black and white photographs are from 1993, and colored photographs are from 2001-2004. One photograph shows a 9/11 memorial (with a portion of a destroyed building) displayed at Port Newark.
Port Newark Seafarer's Center Open House
Soccer Games at Port Newark Seafarer's Center Sports Field
Black and white photos from the 1960s show construction, events, the building at Port Newark Station in New Jersey, the lease signing ceremony at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on April 18, 1960 and the dedication ceremony on October 7, 1960. Clarence G. Michalis, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Franklin E. Vilas, Revs. Roscoe T. Foust and John M. Mulligan, along with Clarence G. Michalis and Franklin E. Vilas, are also included. Color photos date from late 1970s to 1989. Mariners and SCI employees are shown relaxing and socializing. Chapel services, International Sports Week in September 1974, “Salute to the Volunteers” party on March 8, 1983, dances, the 1989 Christmas party, and Rev. James R. Whittemore are shown
Events at the Propeller Club included the 22nd annual dinner held on May 20, 1944 with Rev. Harold H. Kelley and the 31st annual dinner held on May 22, 1953 with Rev. Raymond S. Hall.
Rev. Smythe Pyne was SCI’s first president and founding member of the Board of Managers in 1843.
British refugee children were invited to SCI by Rev. Harold H. Kelley in September 1940.
Janet Roper was SCI's House Mother from 1915 until her death in 1943. Also shown are Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Edith Baxter, and two envelopes addressed to Roper.
The Rudder Club hosted dinners and parties. Rev. Raymond S. Hall is shown in many photos.
The Sailors' Home was operated by SCI from 1894-1907.
Sailors' Snug Harbor was a home for elderly sailors located in Staten Island (N.Y.)
lantern slides
A variety of images are shown here, including a group of shipwrecked seafarers sitting in the auditorium at 25 South Street during World War I; American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS) members singing to seamen in the Seamen’s Lounge at 25 South Street in 1943; broadcast of the poetry contest “Between the Bookends” in February 1945, with a seaman winning third prize; Radio operator Ken Quee speaking with mariner Manuel Benitez on the rooftop of 25 South Street in 1955; a 1964 portrait of Seaman of the Month David Frey; female “Sea Venture” crew members attending an orientation at 15 State Street prior to sailing in 1974; two crew members looking out of the Turkish goodwill ship Tarsus in the port of Miami (Fla.); a portrait of Count Felix von Luckner; Capt. John Wilson with a dog on a boat; portrait of seaman Charles Leroy McCleary; and a portrait of seafarer Jim Fowler with a falcon.
The Sentinel was purchased by SCI in 1902 to visit ships and bring merchant mariners to and from the institute for religious services and recreation. Views of the yacht in the harbor and moored next to the Floating Church of Our Saviour, as well as detailed shots of the services it provided to merchant mariners are shown. Herbert L. Satterlee, member of the Board of Managers, can also be seen on the Sentinel in 1906.
The tugboat “Thomas Tracy”, built by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company for Tracy Towing Lines.
SCI employees and chaplains visited ships provide reading and recreation material as well as information about SCI services. Capt. Jorgen U. Bjorge is also shown.
Rev. Harold H. Kelley and Janet Roper are shown looking at ship models with the Shipcraft Guild. John Forsythe and Klaus Kreuger admire model (July-August 1962)
The Sir Galahad memorial was given to SCI in 1927 by I. J. Merritt in memory of his father. Pictured are drawings that may be inspiration for the original design, the memorial’s dedication ceremony, a close-up of the plaque, views of the memorial on the building at 25 South Street, Edmund L. Baylies, and Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield. The figurehead is now at the Seafarer's Center in Port Newark, New Jersey.
The Society for Seamen's Children was founded in 1846 and operated foster care facilities for children of mariners at Marshall Cottage in Staten Island, NY. The society became affiliated with SCI in 1937.
25 South Street Soda Fountain and Luncheonette
The Dayton-Hudson Corporation organized a three-day-long flower show on Wall Street in 1969. Proceeds from the event went to SCI.
Luncheons, including the New York Board of Trade's annual Tradition of the Sea award (photos from May 18, 1960 show the award being presented presented to Capt. Sven E. Roos with Franklin E. Vilas). is represented under this subject. Revs. Roscoe T. Foust and John M. Mulligan are shown at various luncheons.
1971 National Maritime Day activities included Rev. John M. Mulligan giving a speech. Also included is a program at Castle Clinton in New York (N. Y.) on May 22, 1970.
Rev. John M. Mulligan is shown with SCI soccer teams.
International Seamen's Club 15th Anniversary
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Concert
Included the US government centennial in 1889, a Thanksgiving dinner at 25 South Street in 1963; a concert with pianist Willard MacGregor on March 16, 1975; and a Chinese Christmas party in 1975, as well as other events organized or attended by SCI staff. Some of the people featured in the photographs include the author Harper Lee, Rev. John M. Mulligan, and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
25 South Street Department of Special Services
This department included the Missing Seamen's Bureau, the Women's Council, and Ship Visitation. R
15 State Street Department of Special Services
This department included the Missing Seamen's Bureau, the Women's Council, and Ship Visitation.
Liberty Ship Janet Lord Roper Ship Christening Ceremony
The SS Janet Lord Roper in Fairfield (Md.) ship christening was attended by Roper's daughter Marion and Rev. Harold H. Kelley.
Edward Thompson Taylor (1793-1871), known as "Father Taylor" became the missionary in charge of the Seamen's Bethel in Boston (Mass.) in 1830.
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A time ball (not from the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse) and exhibit page about time balls produced by the United States Navy
The lighthouse was built in honor of the crew of the Titanic steamship that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. In addition to views of the lighthouse, memorial plaque, and time ball, photos includes a dedication ceremony on April 15, 1913 with Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield; the 50th anniversary memorial service held on April 15, 1962 with Rev. John M. Mulligan; Titanic survivors looking at a painting of the steamship by W. Muller; and installation of the memorial at the South Street Seaport, following the demolition of 25 South Street in 1968.
The United States Coast Guard is seen visiting and training at 25 South Street, SCI's headquarters from 1913-1967, as well as receiving Christmas at Sea packages in 1971. The following USCG officers are included: Ens. William Berssenbrugge; Lt. John B. Holmes; Ltjg. Archibald Alexander; Ens. Thomas B. Taylor; Ltjg. Robert B. English; Ens. Edward Everett Dickinson, III; Ens. Harold H. Gaillard; Lcdr. Frederick A. Just; Lt. Dale D. Harrison; Ens. Hartwig Baruch, Jr.; Ens. Edgar Halberstadt; Ltjg. Roland D. Harrison; Ens. Frederick H. Ellis; Ltjg. Eugene Pfitzpatrick; and Lt. William Radewald, Jr. Rev. Harold H. Kelley is also shown.
United States Public Health Services Hospital
Photos include a makeshift chapel decorated for Christmas in 1922 and a chaplain visiting a patient.
Among the visitors are documentary filmmakers, Rep. John Lindsay speaking for Adult Education in 1962, Bob Ryan for WNBC’s “City of Ships” in 1964, members of the Women’s Propeller Club in 1964, and author Harper Lee in October 1974. Franklin E. Vilas is also shown.
Edmund F. Wagner began serving as Chairman of the Board for the Seamen's Bank for Savings in 1959.
Rev. Robert J. Walker was chaplain of the Floating Church of Our Saviour from 1872-1890.
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Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse was a clerical vice-president of SCI from 1844-1851.
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Thomas P. Whittaker served on the Board of Managers from 1868 - 1915.
Marshall Orme Wilson Jr. (November 13, 1885 – February 13, 1966) began serving on the Board of Managers in 1910. The February 1961 issue of The Lookout noted his 50 years of board service.
Street of Ships Exhibit (Woldemar Neufeld)
The Women's Council organized benefit luncheons, the Christmas at Sea program, ship visits, spring plant sales. Many of these events, including the council's 40th anniversary on January 30, 1963, are depicted. Grace T. Chapman, Rev. Roscoe T. Foust, Rev. Joseph D. Huntley, Rev. John M. Mulligan, Augusta Morris de Peyster, Rebekah Shipler, Leslie C. Westerman, Franklin E. Vilas, and Barbara Love are present in these photographs.
"Hotel Reading Room, Seamen's Church Institute of New York, 25 South Street"
Black and white postcard depicting the reading room at 25 South Street, the headquarters of the Seamen's Church Institute from 1913-1967. Well-dressed sailors of various ages sit at desks with newspapers and other reading material.
The Lookout 1965 October (Vol. 56, No. 8)
Includes "From Canada By Canoe," ""Johari The Great "Show Business In His Blood," "The Genius of Leonardo," "Deck The Halls With Stacks of Boxes," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter IV," "Drawing Ships - A Hobby"
The Lookout 1956 January (Vol. 47, No. 1)
Includes "Seafaring as a Career," "Cops and Pirates," "Freedom Sailors," "How Deep is the Ocean?," "50-50, or Fight," "Something Personal"
The Lookout 1956 February (Vol. 47, No. 2)
Includes "For Bravery," "From Foreign Shores," "Seafaring as a Career," "Around the clock…On a Red Letter Day," "Going with the Wind," "Message Received," "About the Flying Cloud"
Includes "Off Again, On Again," "Seafaring as a Career," "Score One for New York," and "Below Deck"
Includes "In and Out of the Navy," "From the Whale's Mouth," "Clammed Up," and "Citizens from the Fo'c'sle"
Includes "Are Clams Really Happy?," "High School for High Seas," "Stars and Stripes for Once," "Fish 'n Chips," "Roll and Go"
Includes "Are Clams Really Happy? Part II," "Lights to Sail By," "Wayfaring Books," "Ship Design - Who Knows Best?," "Fish Prints"
The Lookout 1956 August (Vol. 47, No. 8)
Includes "Men, Rope and Canvas," "Under Sail," "On the Horizon," "Without the Andrea Doria," "Sailing for Health"
The Lookout 1956 September (Vol. 47, No. 9)
Includes "They Also Serve," "The Edge of Growth," "Piloting the Suez," "Seas I Have Known"
The Lookout 1956 October (Vol. 47, No. 10)
Includes "New Wine for Old Gals," "A Man With A Plan," "Ropes Against the Sea," and "Summing Up"
The Lookout 1956 November (Vol. 47, No. 11)
Includes "Ship Shopping," "Packing for Christmas at Sea," "What's Ahead?," "What Kind of Sailors Were The Pilgrims?"
The Lookout 1956 December (Vol. 47, No. 12)
Includes "Carvers to the Sea," "The Mayflower's Captain," "Ordinary's Berth," and "The Days Before Christmas"
The Lookout 1957 January (Vol. 48, No. 1)
Includes "Quarantine," "New Arrivals," "Do You Remember?," "Luck Adrift," "There Were Three Ships…"
The Lookout 1957 February (Vol. 48, No. 2)
Includes "Utopia on a Mud Bank," "Before the Cameras," "The Long Way Home," "Louis From the Ship"
Includes "High and Dry," "Fo'c's'le Ashore," "Looking Back on the Future," "Boating in the Sky"
The Lookout 1960 October (Vol. 51, No. 4)
Includes "Welcome Aboard," "Reaching Out to Port Newark," "S.C.I. Answers A Need"
The Lookout 1961 August-September (Vol. 52, No. 4)
Includes "SCI Goes to Detroit," "New York Bible Society Installs Display Case in SCI Lobby," "SCI Film Strip Available in Oct.," "Two Members Elected to Board," "The World of Ships," "Under the Charley Noble," "The Tug of War With Davey Jones"
The Lookout 1961 December (Vol. 51, No. 6 [Vol. 52 No. 6])
Includes "Women's Council Breaks All Records," "SCI's Booth Goes to General Convention," "Sea Superstitions Still Prevail," "Under The Charley Noble"
The Lookout 1962 December (Vol. 53, No. 7 [Vol. 53 No. 8])
Includes "Christmas Thoughts from the Director," "Christmas in Santa's Back Yard," "A Christmas Scrapbook," "Christmas from the Gallery," "Christmas on Tape"
The Lookout 1964 October (Vol. 55, No. 8)
Includes "2,000 Santa Clauses," "Newest Member of the Family," "Can You Top This?," "Waldo's Venture"
The Lookout 1964 November (Vol. 55, No. 9)
The Lookout 1964 December (Vol. 55, No. 10)
Includes "Hark! The Herald Angels Saved Us!," "City of Ships," "Where Will They Be on Christmas?," "Christ's Present to Sandy & Me," "Winter Reunion," "Christmas on Porcelain," "Silent Night," "That Eventful Year…1878"
The Lookout 1965 January (Vol. 56, No. 1)
Includes "…14 Dead or Missing," "Seamen With a Camera," "Stranded In Our City," "Old Superstitions Hardly Ever Die," "Shipvisitors Log," "Training for the Automated Ship," "What's This Jazz About Automation"
The Lookout 1965 February-March (Vol. 56, No. 2)
Includes "Strike Squeeze," "Port Newark Countdown," "Wall Rope Works," "I Saw Russia," "Slice of Antiquity"
Includes "Last Gun of the Arctic," "Scrimshaw Art of the Whaleman," "The Blaze of the P.K. Hunt"
Includes "7 Years Young," "At Atlantic City...A Loud, Clear Voice," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch," "The Future of SCI's Ministry," "Ports O' Call Camara de Lobos"
The Lookout 1965 July-August (Vol. 56, No. 6)
Includes "Dance Bus Special," "When Lot Staged a Sit-In," "Helping the Stranger in Port," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter II," "Midnight Sailing," "Engineer With a Paintbrush"
The Lookout 1965 September (Vol. 56, No. 7)
Includes "An Optimistic View," "20 Years on the Street of Ships," "Reuniting Sailors With Their Money," "Treasures in a Bottle," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter III," "Destination Qui Nhon," "Double Discovery"
The Lookout 1965 November (Vol. 56, No. 9)
Includes "We Are In This Together," "Profile of a Knitter," "Saving The Vasa - The World's Oldest Ship," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter V," "Lines From The Heart," "Get Me to the Ship On Time," "When Home is a Memory"
The Lookout 1965 December (Vol. 56, No. 10)
Includes "Sending the Message of Christmas 'Round the World," "Seamen Get "Sneak Preview" of SCI's New Mariners Center," "What Can I Give Him?," "Life Began at Fifty-One," "That Eventful Year…1942," "Tall Tales An Act of God?," "How Sailors Keep Christmas," "Sinbad," "Christmas In Sail"
The Lookout 1966 January (Vol. 57, No. 1)
Includes "Materilization of a Dream," "The Exciting Future," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter VI," "A Horse Takes a Holiday"
The Lookout 1966 February-March (Vol. 57, No. 2)
Includes "Seamen's Yen For Music," "Nights, Knights and Ladies at SCI or the Transit Strike That Was," "The Whaling Journal of Francis Hitch Chapter VII (Conclusion)," "They Rowed The Atlantic," "Floating Church and Club for Seamen"
Includes "On The Ball at Eight Bells," "Letter from Saigon," "The Unsinkable Korean Ironclads," "The Sea Surgeons," "Lionel Lukin Builder of the First Lifeboat," "Torpedoed at Sea Captured by Philately"
Includes "Fabulous Flotsam," "The Flagship Niagara," "High Flying Safari," "Life Begins At Forty…Fifty…or Sixty…?," "America's Memorial to Mariners"
The Lookout 1966 July-August (Vol. 57, No. 6)
Includes "By The Bells," "Fever Run," "Link of Continents," "Francisco Bobadilla's Billion-Dollar Golden Hoard"
The Lookout 1966 September (Vol. 57, No. 7)
Includes "The Mystery of the Compass," "They Think They Saw a UFO," "Fever Run," "High Fashion From the High Sea"
The Lookout 1966 October (Vol. 57, No. 8)
Includes "Robinson Crusoe's Island," "The Constellation," "Royal Tar Circus Disaster," "The Cyclops Mystery"
The Lookout 1966 November (Vol. 57, No. 9)
Includes "To Touch the Lonely Ones," "Christmas in the Dog House," "They Still Call it the GREAT STORM," "Voyage of the Mayflower 1620"
The Lookout 1966 December (Vol. 57, No. 10)
Includes "The Basis for a Decision," "Speaking for the Architects"
The Lookout 1967 January (Vol. 58, No. 1)
Includes "The Rise and Fall of Figureheads," "Incredible Rescue at Hungnam," "Phantom of the Arctic"
The Lookout 1967 February-March (Vol. 58, No. 2)
Includes "The Port of London…"Liquid History"," "Bell of the Atlantic," "The Grey Whale," "The Strange World of the Le Havre Dockers"
The Lookout 1967 May (Vol. 58, No. 3 [Vol. 58, No. 4])
Includes "Seacats," "Monument to the Corageous," "Special Services," "The Name of the Game is Soccer," "The Czar's Folly"
The Lookout 1967 June (Vol. 58, No. 4 [Vol. 58, No. 5])
Includes "Skipper Ireson's Ride," "Montreal and the St. Lawrence," "Response to an Emergency," "St. Mary's College In Sail," "British Sea Superstitions"
The Lookout 1967 July-August (Vol. 58, No. 6)
Includes "The Sea Worshipper," "Naming British Ships," "They Fought a Giant Squid," "Yum, Yum, It's Seaweed!"
The Lookout 1967 September (Vol. 58, No. 7)
Includes "Remoras Are Resourceful," "Thule, Greenland," "Norse Visit," "Washington Looked to the Sea"
The Lookout 1967 October (Vol. 58, No. 8)
Includes "New England's Ghostly Pirates," "Bottle Ahoy!," "Jinx At Sea," "Landlubber Sam and his Plimsoll Line," "By the Horn"
The Lookout 1967 November (Vol. 58, No. 9)
Includes "SCI Revisited," "Mayflower Mementos," "Christmas at Sea," "The Sea on Christmas Seals," "The Mystery of Marlborough"
The Lookout 1967 December (Vol. 58, No. 10)
Includes "Sentinels of the Sea," "World's Loneliest Island," "The Dreaded Barbary Pirates," "You and Yours"
The Lookout 1968 January (Vol. 59, No. 1)
Includes "Ship Burials," "Salty Signals," "Marine Propeller Inventor," "Foundation Stone Dedicated," "Many a Slip Between Name and Ship"
The Lookout 1968 February-March (Vol. 59, No. 2)
Includes "The Key to Tomorrow is in the Sea," "Conrad Library," "The Story Behind the Picture," "The Way it Was - for the Men of the Sea," "The Strange Case of the Ferret," "Out of the Sea Came He"
Includes "At Home on State Street," "H.M.S. Victory," "Searching on the Shore," "Mooring Bollards," "Lights that Never Fail," "Warring Whales," "Ship of the Rockbound Cavern" Seamen's Church Institute of New York
Includes "Anchored Within the Vail," "They Sailed in Biblical Times," "Clowns of the Sea"
The Lookout 1968 July-August (Vol. 59, No. 6)
Includes "Origin of Old Glory," "They Called it the Peripatetic Coffin," "Captain Cook Benefactor of Seamen," "The Ship They Found in the Desert"
The Lookout 1968 September (Vol. 59, No. 7)
Includes "Ships on Weather Watch," "Indonesian Star," "Phantoms of the Sea," "The Other Sir Francis," "The Constitutions Wheel"
The Lookout 1968 October (Vol. 59, No. 8)
Includes "Who Discovered America?" by Brenda Gourgey, "Ghost Ship Riddles" by Alan P. Major, "The Guendolen's Attack" by Maurice De Soissons, "Canine Ship Wrecks" by Edyth Harper, "The Ship That Sought Revenge" by James M. Powles
The Lookout 1945 January (Vol. 36, No. 1)
Includes "The Carpenter Goes Home" by Frank G. Laskier, "Vital Cargo" by Robert E. Conway, "Seagoing 'Prophet'" by Cecil M. Jones, "The Way of the Sea" by Herbert Colcord, "Tribute to the Janet Roper Club" by George Noble, "Sailing Under Brooklyn Bridge" by Louis S. Tiemann and "War-Time Adventures" by Samuel Banks
The Lookout 1945 February (Vol. 36, No. 2)
Includes "Modernization Fund for the Institute", "First Liberty Ship at Leyte" by Lt. John Macauley, "Exhibition of Paintings by United Nations Seamen", "Three Seamen Heroes" and "Seamanship" by Capt. Peter R. Staboe
Includes "Club for Danish Seamen Opened at the Institute", "Success Story - From Stowaway to Officer", "Tankers Burn in New York Harbor", "'Vox Pop' Visits the Institute" and "Windjammer Classrooms" by Marjorie Dent Candee
Includes "Seamen Prisoners of War Arrive Home", "Sole Survivor of a Sailing Ship" by George Noble, "Survivor of Jap Marine Attack", "The Lookout Has a Birthday", "How 'The Lookout' Was Started" by Mrs. Archibald Romaine Mansfield, "Some of Those Days" by Katharine Lane Spaeth, "Looking Back at 1910" by Charles Robert Patterson, "Memories of the Ways & Means Dept. at No. 1 State Street" by Elsa Quetting Bunce, "Time Marches On" by Trevor M. Barlow, "1 State Street" by Rev. Charles B. Carpenter, "One State Street Sold", "Wins Distinguished Service Medal" and "Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Friend of Seamen"
Includes "V-E Day", "Winners in Marine Poetry Contest", "A Self-Rising Mattress", "A Trainee Party at '25 South Street'", "Miraculous Escape", "Action in the Pacific", "Morning Along the Waterfront" by Ann Culhane, "Fifteen American Heroes" and "U.S. Tanker Sunk"
Includes "Artists and Writers Club for Merchant Marine", "Fort Trumbull", "Ship Model Exhibition", "War Bond Rallies for Merchant Seamen", "Scenes at the Janet Roper Club, 3 East 67th Street", "Eisenhower Passes By" by Ann Culhane, "For Distinguished Service", "Now I am a Chief Mate" by Kermit W. Salyer and "Two Great Merchant Ships Now Serve as Troop Carriers"
The Lookout 1945 August (Vol. 36, No. 8)
Includes "Six-Masted Schooner 'Tango' Still Sails", "Youth and Age Go to Sea", "Beards Invade 25 South Street", "Beaver" by Ens. S. Sussman, "Dance for Maritime Midshipmen in Institute's Auditorium", "A Goat Stew Diet", "Christmas Boxes for the Merchant Marine" by Mrs. Grafton Burke, "Great Lakes Seamen", "Hazards of the Sea", "War in the Pacific", "The Screwball Inventor" by John Hodakowsky, "Gallant Ship" and "A Liberty Ship Participates in a Unique Pipe Line Operation"
The Lookout 1945 September (Vol. 36, No. 9)
Includes "Man on Lookout" by Mort Alper, "Sea Lanes of Supply", "United Nations Via Gangplank" by Norman Gilmartin, "Lord Leathers' Victory Message" and "Sea Dog to the Rescue"
The Lookout 1945 October (Vol. 36, No. 10)
Includes "Vision After Victory", "First Peace-Time Voyage to the Philipines [sic]", "The Home Run", "Second Birthday - Janet Roper - Club", "General Wainwright Comes Home" by Anne Culhane and "Chipper Skippers" by Louise Bascom Barrett
The Lookout 1945 November (Vol. 36, No. 11)
Includes "Artists and Writers in the Merchant Marine" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Artists and Seamen" by Gordon Grant, "Libraries for Merchant Seamen" by librarian Anne Conrow Hazard, "What Books Mean to Men at Sea" by George T. Noble, "What Books Mean to Me" by Kenneth Eldon Johnson, "Writing as an Avocation for Seamen" by Paul Peters, "Art Exhibitions" by Isabel F. Peterson, "Paintings by Seamen", "Art and Skills" by Mrs. H. Suydam Cutting, "Sea Poetry" by John Ackerson and "Artists and Writers Club"
The Lookout 1945 December (Vol. 36, No. 12)
Includes "Christmas at Sea" by Cecil Jones, "The Lost Christmas Story" by George Noble, "Address to Seafarers" by Rev. Kenneth Boulton-Jones, "The Contrary Coffee Pot" by John Hodakovsky, "Blow, Wind, Blow" by Mort Alper, "Aboard the S. S. Albert K. Smiley" by Capt. Walter Thomas Wieder, "'A. A.' A Salvage Job" and "One Well-Remembered Christmas Day" by James A. Durkin,
Includes "Playtime for Seafarers", "Crossing 'The Line'" by Tom O'Reilly, "For Distinguished Service: Volunteers", "Pictorial Record of a Voyage on a C-2 Transport" by Herman Brockdorff, "Strange Incident" by Herbert Colcord and a letter to Tom Dwyer, a ship's carpenter, from Albert Einstein
Includes "Skipper, A Liberty Hound" by Lt. John E. White, "Hull No. 803" by Gordon Fraser, "The Captain Blew His Bugle" by Orriz R. Contreras, "War Mural Chosen for Institute Lobby", "For Seamen's Children" by Ann Culhane and "Voyage of the Packet Ship 'Adriatic'"
Includes "Tattooing Survives", "A Sailing Breeze" by George T. Noble, "My Most Memorable Sea Experience" by Thomas Hill, "A Merchant Seaman at UNO" by Orriz Contreras, "Blizzard at Sea" by Herbert L. Satterlee and "Fire and Rescue at Sea"
Includes "Why I Go to Sea" by Francis Keyser, "First Anniversary of Artists and Writers Club Celebrated at Luncheon", "Contrary to Regulations" by Joseph I. Flynn, "Waterfront Bard" and "Who's Got the Ocelot?"
The Lookout 1946 September (Vol. 37, No. 9)
Includes "Bob, the Seagoing Gazelle" by L.J. Lake, "Why I Go to Sea" by Capt. John S. Conaghan, "The 'Elsie' and the 'Blue Nose'" by Angela Geele, "The Bosun" by Tom O'Reilly, "To Sea or Not to Sea" by John Hodakovsky and "An Incident at Sea" by Stephen Leacock
The Lookout 1946 October (Vol. 37, No. 10)
Includes "Kome, Doctor Kome Fixit" by George M. Meredith, "A Matter of Winches" by Capt. Harry Garfield, "Fate and a Torpedo" by Mort Alper, "Genuflection to the Engine" by Robert Thompson and "I've Had a Lot of Fun" by George T. Noble
The Lookout 1946 November (Vol. 37, No. 11)
Includes "Marine Photography Contest", "Archbishop of Canterbury Visits 25 South Street", a review of the book "Two Years Before the Mast" by Francis Keyser, "Through a Gaff Tops'l Hair-Do" by Capt. Harry Garfield, reviews of the movie "The Raider" by Gunnar Nilsson and Joseph Holt, "Library Kaleidoscope" by F. Louise Noling, "Serving Seamen's Children for 100 Years" and "An Incident of My Boyhood" by Herbert Colcord
The Lookout 1947 January (Vol. 38, No. 1)
Includes "The House that Courage Built" by Frank Laskier, "My Time was Not Up" by Karl H. Larson, "A Letter From a Seaman to His Family", "A Dutch Captain's Story", "Ship Rescues" and "Seagoing Pets"
The Lookout 1947 February (Vol. 38, No. 2)
Includes "Schooners in the News", "Four Men on a Raft" by William L. Rohde, "This was the War" by John O'Sullivan, "Oscar, a Seaman's Friend" by Thomas Bowers and "Seafarer Inventor Has Plans for Harnessing the Tides"
Includes "North Atlantic Weather Patrol to Mean New Safety at Sea", "Emphasis on Safe Ships: Future American Liners Will Be Built and Equipped to Meet Severe Tests" by George Horne, "Last Command" by Charles Lemoon, "Concerning Mermaids" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "The Hurricane" by Harry L. Payne, "The Man with the Black Fedora" by Capt. S.M. Riis and "Queenie" by Gunnar Nilsson
Includes "Maritime Day", "The Captain and the Easter Eggs" by Orriz R. Contreras, "Ski's Bad Habit" by John Hodakovsky, "The Yellow Flag" by Charles Lemoon, "Central Council Launches New Service" and "Our Nautical 'Sherlock' Again"
Includes "Sea Dogs Rescued from Ship Fire", "War Records of Some Coastwise Steamships in World War II" by Freeman R. Hathaway, "Dramatics at the Institute", "A Seafarer Behind Footlights", "Mauretania's Post-War Debut", "The Butterflies that Sank the Ship" by Ralph D. Finch and "Challenge of the Sea" by Fred Lane
Includes "Strange Cargoes Brought by Merchant Ships", "One on the Skipper" by George Mayo Newton, "Progress Report on Mural", continuation from The Lookout 1947 June "Challenge of the Sea" by Fred Lane and "All Clear Forrard" by George T. Noble
The Lookout 1947 August (Vol. 38, No. 8)
Includes "Piccadilly on South Street", "Restrictions on Alien Seamen Means Stepped-Up Need for Institute Services", "Ships are Everybody's Business", "Further Adventures of Oscar" by Thomas Bowers, "A Man and His Dog" by Harold L. Meyers and "Concerning Sea Serpents" by Marjorie Dent Candee
The Lookout 1947 September (Vol. 38, No. 9)
Includes "Crew of Knitters", "A Week's Cruise Aboard the 'S.S. Janet Roper'" by Bob Larson, "A Reader Rounds Out a Story", "Old Salt, Seamen's Salvager", "Fine Ships Mean Fine Food" by Joseph J. Ryan and "The Bosun's Lucky Cat" by John Hodakovsky
The Lookout 1947 October (Vol. 38, No. 10)
Includes "Museum Ships", "Dr. Harold H. Kelley, Director of Seamen's Church Institute, Visits Europe. Dr. Raymond S. Hall Appointed Assistant Director", "A King's Point Cadet Looks at the Institute" by Cdt. Mid. Paul K. Scoggins, "Crossing the Atlantic", "Charting the Gulf Stream" and "Spitzkayoodle" by John Hodakovsky
The Lookout 1947 November (Vol. 38, No. 11)
Includes "War Mural Dedicated in Main Lobby", "Beyond the Line of Duty", "Professor Albion Pays Tribute to Merchant Seamen", "Nostalgia for Sailing Ships", "A Vacation at Sea" by Capt. C. E. Umstead, "The Cat and the Canary" by George T. Noble and "'Old Ironsides' Commemorative Stamp"
The Lookout 1947 December (Vol. 38, No. 12)
Includes "Guadalcanal Christmas" by John Hodakovsky, "First Impressions of the S.C.I." by Rev. Raymond S. Hall, "Two Christmases at Sea", "A Wartime Christmas" by Alan Parks, "Pacific Christmas" by Kemit W. Salyer, "Dr. Kelley Distributes Boxes Abroad", "Swedish Club Opened at Institute", "Visitors from Turkey", "The Cat and the Canary" by George T. Noble and "Schooner Rescue"
The Lookout 1948 January (Vol. 39, No. 1)
Includes "My Favorite Port of Call" by Capt. Gordon H. Messegee, "Passing of Cape Horn Sail Fleets Marked in Aaland Islander's End" by Capt. Alan J. Villiers, "My Favorite Port of Call - Hapsalu" by Capt. S.M. Riis, "New Sperry Radar Opened in Merchant Marine School", "My Favorite Port of Call - Tonga Islands" by John Hodakovsky, "What a Mess-Boy" by Sam Sukowitz and "Prize Winning Paintings"
The Lookout 1948 February (Vol. 39, No. 2)
Includes "Ahoy! Parrot Adrift" by Don D. Brown, "A Radio Interview with Frank Laskier", "Seagoing Bottle Contains Message for Royal Couple", "Art Exhibit on Shipboard", "Two Sea 'Tragedies'" by John Sante, "True Tales of Heroism at Sea: Live Wire" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Shining Seaward" by Paul Walker, "Oscar the Terrible" by Thomas Bowers, "The Decline of Coast-Line Shipping" by Freeman Hathaway and "Ship Shape Shirts" by Polly Weaver
Includes "Five Days Aboard a Modern Freighter" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Social Activities at the S.C.I." by Shirley Wessel, "My Favorite Port of Call" by D. Tuttle, "New Clubroom to be Opened in the Institute for Kings Point Alumni", "Christmas in Rotterdam" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley, "The Last of the Great McCloskeys" by Orriz Rolfe Contreras, "Memorial Service for Crew of Danish Ship Sunk on Christmas Day" and "New Board Members"
Includes "Sea Dog", "Kings Point Alumni Association Opens New Club Headquarters at Seamen's Institute", "A Day Aboard a Squarerigger" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Rescue at Sea!" by Harrison Mitchell, "My Favorite Port of Call - Massawa" by Thomas Bowers, "How Coenties Slip Got Its Name", "The Captain Attends a Hoe-Down" by Orriz R. Contreras and "More on Sea Serpents"
Includes "My Most Unforgettable War Experience: Our Ships Were Dark Shadows..." by Horace Bryan, "Goodbye, Thebaud!" by Edmund F. Morgan, "Show Boat - Chinese Style", "Five Days Aboard a Cattle Boat" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Captain Gregory's Doughnut", "'Speaking' the Placida" and "Thirty-two Days in a Lifeboat: An Anonymous Report"
Includes "Dr. Kelley to Retire August 31st", "Who Said Tugs Don't Go Adventuring?" by Chris Hansen, "My Most Unforgettable War Experience: Action in the Arctic" by James G. Harrington, "Unlucky Ike and Kelly's Eye", "From Ships to Station Wagons" by Polly Weaver, "Superstitions of the Sea" by Ralph Childs, "I Suddenly Became a Father" by Cmdr. S.M. Riis and "Radar via Telephone"
The Lookout 1948 August (Vol. 39, No. 8)
Includes "Surfaceblow Toots a Whistle" by Stephen M. Elonka, "My Most Unforgettable War Experience: The Decision" by Gunnar Nilsson, "Heaven Alone Could Work This Wonder" by Capt. I.F. Wood, "My Most Unforgettable War Experience: The Captain in the Green Hat" by Francis W. Keyser and "Superstitions of the Sea", continued from the 1948 July Lookout, by Ralph Childs
The Lookout 1948 September (Vol. 39, No. 9)
Includes "My Favorite Shipmate" by Frank Keyser, "My Most Unforgettable Shipmate" by Capt. Gordon Messegee, "Figureheads on Modern Ships", "My Most Unforgettable Shipmate" by Capt. I.F. Wood, "Sea Capers" by Carl Frederick Sigmund, "Christmas Boxes for Men at Sea", "News of Our Seamen Artists" and "My Most Unforgettable Shipmate" by Ralph A. Sayres
The Lookout 1948 October (Vol. 39, No. 10)
Includes "Waterfront Sees a Full-Rigged Ship", "Valediction" by Richard Peterson, "My Most Unforgettable Shipmate" by James H. Parsons, "Headwinds" by Art McAnney, "Netherlands Seamen Honor Queen Wilhelmina", "Log of the James Condie, a Document of Human Interest, 1874" by Frank O. Braynard and "An Unnautical Answer" by Quien Sabe
The Lookout 1948 November (Vol. 39, No. 11)
Includes "Street with a Future", "A Nice Cup of Tea" by Frank Laskier, "Crossroads of the World: The Seamen's Lounge" by Augusta Cochran, "My Most Unforgettable Shipmate" by Capt. S.M. Riis, "Coincidences" by Frank D. Gardner and "How Merchant Ships are Tested" by Frank Keyser
The Lookout 1948 December (Vol. 39, No. 12)
Includes "Home for Christmas", "The Primitive Approach" by Robert M. Coates, "The Day After Christmas", "Sunday at Sea" by Brooks Atkinson, "Christmas Rendezvous" by James H. Parsons and "The Rustic Mariner" by Paul Carron
The Lookout 1949 January (Vol. 40, No. 1)
Includes "Angel Mary-Ann" by A. Mathiesen, "Rio de Janeiro: My Favorite Port of Call" by Joaquin Arnet, "The S.C.I. Makes Its Debut on Television", "Christmas Day at 25 South Street", "Surfaceblow's Frozen Asset" by Stephen M. Elonka, "Judges in Recent Contests for Seamen", an obituary for Hunter Wood, "King's Point Salutes the Institute", "Hospital Visiting" and "Seamen Win Prizes for Marine Photographs"
The Lookout 1949 February (Vol. 40, No. 2)
Includes "Meet Me at 25 South Street!" by Wilfred Raglin, "Old Sea Mystery Still Unsolved" by George Tucker, "The 'Bangalore'" by Charles Robert Patterson, "Monkey Shines", "The Victor of a Hundred Gales" by Reginald R. Hill and "New Clue Offered on 'Sir Galahad,' Figurehead at Seamen's Institute"
Includes "Dr. Raymond S. Hall Appointed Director", "Out of the Fog" by Dan D. Brown, "Adopt-a-Ship Plan Going Full Steam Ahead" by Polly Weaver Beaton, "An Unusual Request", "From Hellas to the Roof of Gimle: Reflections on the Early Days of Steam" by Jens P. Overgaard, a review of "Down to the Sea in Ships" by Capt. Gordon H. Messegee, "Skippers Who Paint", "Mrs. Roper Lives On" and "Report on Artists and Writers Club"
Includes "Operation Headgear" by Peter Cruze, "Ceremony of Institution for Dr. Hall", "Saba Seamanship" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "New Mural Unveiled in Netherland Seamen's Club", "Mural of Kronborg Castle Serves as Background in Danish Seamen's Club" and "Heroism in Fog and Fire"
Includes "President of Seamen's Church Institute Completes 25 Years of Service", "Saga of the 'Mexico'", "A Seaman's Plan" by John A. Tiencken, "The Figurehead Stages a Comeback", "The Hurricane and Captain Low", "Convalescent Seamen Form Stamp Club", "Cry Wolf" by Norman Maffie and "Sea Rescues"
Includes "A Travelog in Water Colors: Former Seafaring Man Draws on Memories of Scenes and Life Over the Seven Seas" by Joseph Mackey, "Diamond Cut Diamond" by S.F. Brown, "From Semaphore to Telefax", "More on the 'Mexico'" by Thomas Bowers and "Plans Under Way for Outdoor Sports for Seamen in the Port of New York"
The Lookout 1949 August (Vol. 40, No. 8)
Includes "The War is Not Over for All" by Don Brown, "The Yellow Mate" by Nat Barrows, "Channel Fever" by J.J. Flynn, "A Seaman's Scrapbook", "The Sailor Who Knitted - A True Tale of the Sea", "Sea 'Slanguage'", "Seagoing Art Shows" and "Man-and-Wife Art Shows"
The Lookout 1949 September (Vol. 40, No. 9)
Includes "Institute to Have Film Benefit", "Storm-Lashed Sea Fails to Get Cook in a 'Stew'" by Ed Wallace, "A Seaman Becomes a New Citizen", "Types of Ships" illustrated by Tom Musser, "Frank Laskier Killed in Car Crash", "Queen of the White North" by Edmund Francis Moran and "Recollections of My Seafaring Days" by Capt. Ben Harrison
The Lookout 1949 October (Vol. 40, No. 10)
Includes "The Piece-Off" by James H. Parsons, "The Seafaring Life" by John J. Flynn, "Activities of a Seaman's Chaplain" by James C. Healey, "'Liminated" by F. Harold, "A Message from the Director of the Seamen's Church Institute of N.Y." and "Saga of the Rochambeau" by Rene Cruz
The Lookout 1949 November (Vol. 40, No. 11)
Includes "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Norman Maffie, "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by John F. Reynolds, "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Ira C. Kenny, "Prize Winners in Painting and Sculpture" and "Distinguished Visitor from Israel"
The Lookout 1949 December (Vol. 40, No. 12)
Includes "The Lost Yuletide Ship" by W.T. Dunlap, "We Watch Our Profession Die" by Capt. Mel Curtis, "My First Christmas at Sea" by Capt. Irby Fulton Wood, "Dog Watch Songs" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "The Cat That Almost Missed His Ship" by Ernest S. Clowes, "Christmas Off Cape Horn" by Bill Adams, "Svend Visits the Seamen's Lounge" by Shirley Wessel and "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Capt. Peder Pedersen
The Lookout 1950 January (Vol. 41, No. 1)
Includes "They Save the Sick at Sea" by Ellis Michael, "His Mouth Makes Prospectors Drool" by Ed Wallace, "The Chaplain at Work" by Rev. Francis D. Daley, "Bishop Manning Dies", "A Message for Americans" by Herbert Hoover and "Racing Around a Hurricane: My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by W.T. Dunlap
The Lookout 1950 February (Vol. 41, No. 2)
Includes "The Conquest" by George Mayo Newton, "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Harold N. Breece, "Filling in Time Ashore", "Making the Port" by Art McAnney, "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Fletcher W. Hopper and "When Seamen Are 'Down on Their Uppers'" by Polly Weaver Beaton
Includes "Surfaceblow Hoists a Tall One" by Steve Elonka, "Tribute from a Neighbor", "Oil, Sand and Wind" by Kermit W. Salyer, "Artists and Writers Club Report" by Marjorie Dent Candee and "Mrs. Clara Burke Retires from Seamen's Institute"
Includes "My Most Unforgettable Sea Experience" by Franklin A. Picker, Jr., "From the Log" by A. Matthiesen, "The Bauxite Run" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Admiral Belknap Retires", "A Shellback Remembers", "Her Voice Thru the Night" by Valentine Hill, "Religion and the Voluntary Agencies" by Rev. Raymond S. Hall and "Time Out for a Swim" by Don Brown
Includes "A Weekend Aboard No. 12" by Capt. Peder Pedersen, "The 'Arphoo'" by Albert Brown, "Sailing Under the Southern Cross" by James Frost, "We Cover the Waterfront" by Ray Irwin and "Survival of the Sharpest" by Tom Musser
Includes "Winners in Seamen's Art Contest", "Chickens Come Home to Roost" by R.W. Cauchois and "A Sailor Writes to His Girl Friend"
The Lookout 1950 August (Vol. 41, No. 8)
Includes "On Viewing a Marine Painting" and "Seamen Study Textbooks for Jobs Ashore" by George Wright
The Lookout 1950 September (Vol. 41, No. 9)
Includes "Good By" by Frank Keyser, "Grandfather's Seachest" by Capt. Peder G. Pedersen, "The Emancipation of Junior" by Thomas F. Whiteside, "Eight Bells" by John Hodakovsky, "Fog in War-time" by Martin Fuller and "The Friendly Arm of the Law" by Ross Monroe
The Lookout 1950 October (Vol. 41, No. 10)
Includes "Further Adventures of Oscar" by Tom Bowers, "No Flies on Brannigan" by Iain Alexander, "New-Found-Land" by H.W. Corning, "How Did Shakespeare Know?" by F.E. Knight and "Westward Ho!" by Frederick M. Kipp
The Lookout 1950 November (Vol. 41, No. 11)
Includes "Books That Will Go to Sea", "Recollections of the 'Balasore'", "Westward Ho! Part 2" by Frederick M. Kipp, "Things Might Be Worse" by Buris Jenkins, Jr. and "The Decision" by William G. Davidson
The Lookout 1950 December (Vol. 41, No. 12)
Includes "Uncle Elair's Christmas Yarn" by H.W. Corning, "Seven Christmases I Remember" by James Frost, "Captain Jonathan's Christmas Present", "The Chaplain's Page" by John Howard Evans and "From the Crosstrees on Christmas Eve" by Capt. I.F. Wood
The Lookout 1951 January (Vol. 42, No. 1)
Includes "Another Landmark Goes", "In Quest of a Skull" by Lloyd Bertrand, "Chaplain's Page" by Rev. James C. Healey, "When a Ship Founders" by Julian Belaski, "Saga of the 'City of New York'" by Edmund Francis Moran and "The Big Storm"
The Lookout 1951 February (Vol. 42, No. 2)
Includes "Masters of Two Robin Line Vessels Cited for Performances in Korea Evacuation", "A Chilling Experience" by John Wieting, "Sea Terms" by Ted E. Werner, "Chaplain Daley Appointed Assistant to Director", "Seamen Entertain Hostesses" by Angela Geele and "Landsmen's Interpretation of Sea and Ships"
Includes "Ocean Dailies Published by Ships on Bounding Main" by Ray Irwin, "The Raincoat That Gave Me Indigestion" by H.W. Corning, "Portrait of a Seaman" by Forrest Anderson, "Hungnam Story" and "A Hero Passes the Institute"
Includes "Superstition or Mental Telepathy?" by Capt. Peder G. Pedersen, "The Flying Cloud", "The Master" by Eric Thompson, "Wrecks in New York Harbor", "The Last Square-Rigger" by Edmund Francis Moran, "Last Trip Out" by Don Brown and "Marmaduke Sings 'Anchors Away'" by Steve Elonka
Includes "The Day the Flags Went Up" by Godfrey Winn, "Why a Merchant Marine?", "Will They Catch the Great Sea Serpent?" by William Herzl Freed, "Christmas Boxes for Men of the Merchant Marine", "The Story of Sailors' Snug Harbor" and "Dot Draughtsman" by Bertram Goodman
The Lookout 1951 August (Vol. 42, No. 8)
Includes "Two Faces in the Mirror", "Vacations Afloat" by Cornelius F. Cronin, Jr. and "Cape Horn Sailor" by George Horne
The Lookout 1951 September (Vol. 42, No. 9)
Includes "Errand of Mercy" by Charles F. Nugent, "A Message Inside It" by Marvin O. Rice, "Slippery Salvage - a Tall Tale" by H.W. Corning, "Missing Seamen's Bureau" by Shirley Wessel Sawaska, "Donald McKay" by Edmund Moran and "Last of the Grain Fleet Are Reprieved" by Eric Thompson
The Lookout 1951 October (Vol. 42, No. 10)
Includes "Sioux Can't Adopt a Child - So He Befriends 50 of Them" by Ed Wallace, "Mystic - A Maritime Williamsburg", "An Answer to Prayer" by Valentine Hill, "Robot Lighthouses" and "East for the Horn" by Charles V. Reilly
The Lookout 1951 November (Vol. 42, No. 11)
Includes "Mother of Missing Men" by Frank Laskier, "Marmaduke and the 'Grate' Deal" by Steve Elonka, "M.S.T.S. - Logistic Miracle" and "The Tailor Who Sailed as Mate" by Lt. E. Mangodt
The Lookout 1951 December (Vol. 42, No. 12)
Includes "Christmas Eve - at Hungnam", "Korean Christmas - 1950" by Helen McCombs, "What Books I Like to Read at Sea" by Jack Reynolds, "What Books I Like to Read at Sea" by Capt. Gordon H. Messegee, "That Green-Horn Emerson" by Daniel Henderson and "A Christmas Rendezvous at the Equator" by Capt. Peder G. Pedersen
The Lookout 1952 January (Vol. 43, No. 1)
Includes "Solo Voyages", "'Mother Ship' for Tug Fleets" by Frank O. Braynard, "Parrots Again", "A Board Member Looks at Seamen's Agencies", "What Books I Like to Read at Sea" by James Parsons and "Your First Trip to Sea" by Cadm. William F. Schretzman
The Lookout 1952 February (Vol. 43, No. 2)
Includes "Skippers Possess Simple Heroism" by Robert C. Ruark, "Traditions of the Sea" by Hellen R. McCombs, "Our Last Merchant Marine" by Hellen R. McCombs, "The Enigma of the Jigsaw", "When a Ship 'Comes Alive'", "The Irish Pennant" by Robert "Smoky" Stack and "The Port of New York" by William F. Giesen
Includes "Moby Dick Blows Again", "In the Path of the Sun" by Tom Bowers, "Captain Courageous Honors Rescuers", "Extra Ordinary Seaman" by James Frost, "Romance of Spices", "Friendly Little Island" by Phil May, "Freak Winter at Sea", "Sea Chest of Stories" by Rachel L. Carson and "Wave" by Sara Van Alstyne Allen
Includes "The Capricious Tug", "Serious Situation Faces Seafaring Men", "Air-Sea Rescue", "Racing Around a Hurricane" by W.T. Dunlap, "Meat from the Sea", "In the Path of the Sun: Paradox Island" by E.M. Stark and a review of "The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville" by Arona McHugh
Includes "Navy Honors Transport Officers", "The S.S. United States Goes to Sea", "Ship Models Attract Crowds at Roger Kent", "Ship's Whistle Seen on Radar Scope", "The Surviving Stern of 'Fort Mercer': Sixty Seamen Saved", "Warning Light" by Don D. Brown, "Seamen's Singing Chaplain" and "Rescue on the High Seas" by Franklin A. Picker, Jr.
Includes "Shrimp Boats Are A-Comin' and A-Goin'" by Hellen R. McCombs, "National Council of Seamen's Agencies Stresses Needs of Modern Seamen", "In the Path of the Sun: Peace Watch" by Capt. Gordon H. Messegee, "Dat-Dash Surgery" by John Kobler, "The Floating American Storeroom" and "Vagabond Voice"
The Lookout 1952 August (Vol. 43, No. 8)
Includes "The Passing of a Ship", "New York Harbor Has a Unique Visitor" by Tom Baab, "In the Path of the Sun: Jolly Good Stowaways" by Maurice Marrinan, "Land of the Wagon Team Fishermen", "Hawse-Pipe Skipper: A Profile" by Marjorie Dent Candee, "Just One Hundred Years Ago" by Frank O. Braynard and "The World of Ships"
The Lookout 1952 September (Vol. 43, No. 9)
Includes "A Salute to the Flandre", "The Shipping Bill, a Forward Step", "In the Path of the Sea: The Legend of Bloody Bay" by Capt. Lou J. Bristol, "Jungle Mariner: A Profile" by Lt. Arthur H. Foster and "A Mississippi Hotfoot" by Steve Elonka
The Lookout 1952 October (Vol. 43, No. 10)
Includes "The Eastwind: A Profile on an Icebreaker", "Harvesting at the Bottom of the Sea", "Seagoing Painters", "Wreaths Upon the Waters" and "A Famous American Ship: The Dreadnought" by Frank O. Braynard
The Lookout 1952 November (Vol. 43, No. 11)
Includes "Life at 40°27.1′N, 73°49.4′W" by Tom Baab, "The Cruise Director" by Gordon Rosen, "An Investment in Human Beings" by Rev. Ragnar Kjeldahl, "He Sails for Adventure" and "The Mayflower's Captain" by Marjorie Dent Candee
The Lookout 1952 December (Vol. 43, No. 12)
Includes "Why I Go to Sea" by Capt. Gordon H. Messegee, "David & Goliath?", "Sinbad" by Ira C. Kenney, "A Famous American Ship: The Baltic" by Frank O. Braynard, "Enterprise Painting Wins" and "The Year Before Christmas"
The Lookout 1953 January (Vol. 44, No. 1)
Includes "A Bit About Buoys", "A Talk With Bill Fowler" by Tom Baab, "Hospital Chapel Dedicated" and "Sea Jugs and Pickle Bottles" by Marjorie Dent Candee
The Lookout 1953 February (Vol. 44, No. 2)
Includes "Debut of the Andrea Doria", "They Wait for Clues", "Why I Go to Sea" by Irving B. Benton, "A Second 'Jonah and the Whale' Legend" and "Sea Shanties: A Voice from the Past" by Tom Baab
Includes "Marine Museum Opening", "Paquebot Collecting" by Harold P. Faust, "Elephant Ears and Fine Baubles", "Marmy's Blood Money" by Steve Elonka and "Profile of a Keyhole Urchin" by Mae Stoke
Includes "At the Marine Museum", "Our Last Four-Master", "The Kings Pointer: The Place of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Maritime America" by Lt. Cmdr. Luis E. Bejarano and "The Diver" by Tom Baab
Includes "Trade and Our Merchant Fleet", "New York's Floating Elevators: Seven Tall Ships with a Short Future" by Tom Baab, "Notes from a Skipper's Log" by Capt. Dennis Sullivan and "The American Girl" by Arne Hartman
Includes "The Savannah: A Famous American Ship - The First Steamer to Cross Any Ocean" by Frank O. Braynard, "There's a Book About It" by Mike Sodulka, "The Romance of the Tug" and "New Lifeboat Radio"
The Lookout 1953 August (Vol. 44, No. 8)
Includes "Riverboat and Steamship", "The Statue on Bedloe's Island" by N.L. Bredeson, "Ships in Bottles: Here's One Man's Method" by Mae Stoke and "Perry Centennial"
The Lookout 1953 September (Vol. 44, No. 9)
Includes "Around the Island" by N.L. Bredeson, "The Captain's Potato Plant" by Tom Baab and "Wrecks and Rescues" by Mae Stoke
The Lookout 1953 October (Vol. 44, No. 10)
Includes "The Turn-Around" by Mae Stoke and "A Day at the Races" by Tom Baab
The Lookout 1953 November (Vol. 44, No. 11)
Includes "The Fort Schuyler Story" by John J. O'Connor, Jr., "The Mail-Carrying Shark" by Ray Nelson, "The Better Mousetrap" by Tom Baab and "Galley Duty" by Mike Sodulka
The Lookout 1953 December (Vol. 44, No. 12)
Includes "Christmas", "Passing the Time", "Hark! The Herald Angels Saved Us!" by Orriz R. Contreras, "The U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey" by Mae Stoke and "Oil Painting Show"
The Lookout 1954 January (Vol. 45, No. 1)
Includes "From All Ports, 'Thanks.'", "The Seafaring Kind: Ann Davidson and Her Sloop Team Up to Beat the Atlantic" by Mae Stoke, "Fin Flapper's 1984: An Ocean to Swim in, But Nowhere to Hide" and "Another Chance"
The Lookout 1954 February (Vol. 45, No. 2)
Includes "A Cavalcade of Shipping", "A Ferry Tale" and "Enter the Nautilus: America's First A-Sub" by Tom Baab
Includes "A Look Abroad", "Fish for Sale: A Million Pounds a Day at the Fulton Market" by Mae Stoke, "Youth and Old Age" and "Just for Luck" by Tom Baab
Includes "The Fireboats" by Mae Stoke, "The Full Circle", "Secrets of the Sea" by Frank L. Remington and "Our Merchant Marine" by Raymond Moley
Includes "To China for Tea" by Mae Stoke, "The Helicopter Patrol: Our Coast Guard Rises for a Better Look", "The Matchmakers: A Glimpse into the Ritual of Ship Brokerage" by Richard F. Shepard, "Up From the Deep" and "South Street Becomes a Twin-Decker"
Includes "At the Philadelphia Convention: New Ideas Put Forward", "In the Grant Manner" by Tom Baab, "On These Warm Days...Consider the Iceberg" by Tom Baab, "Doria's Sister" and "Singing for Fun"
The Lookout 1954 August (Vol. 45, No. 8)
Includes "The Growing Fleet: Ship Models Come from Chiefs of State", "My Toughest Voyage" by James W. Pearson, "The Purser Knows All the Answers" by Doug Anderson, "The Breeches Buoy" and "Adopt a Ship"
The Lookout 1954 September (Vol. 45, No. 9)
Includes "A Seaward Glance" by Tom Baab, "The Old Ship" by William Chapman White, "Without a Dime" and "My Toughest Voyage" by John P. Ader, Jr.
The Lookout 1954 October (Vol. 45, No. 10)
Includes "A Summing Up", "Nantucket Battered", "Contest Winners", "It Happened This Month", "99 44/100% Plastic, It Floats" and "My Toughest Voyage" by George W. Clark
The Lookout 1954 November (Vol. 45, No. 11)
Includes "The Maritime College Training Cruise" by Cadm. Gordon Geist, "From Barge to Pier: New Dock Climbs Out of Water On Its Own Legs", "The Railroad Fleet: Where the Tracks End, the Car Floats Take Over" by Faye Hammel and "Gift Shop Opened"
The Lookout 1954 December (Vol. 45, No. 12)
The Lookout 1955 January (Vol. 46, No. 1)
Includes "Pier 57: New York's Most Modern", "The Precocious Porpoise" by Faye Hammel, "New Zealand, India Give Models", "Webb Institute" and "Timbers from the Tiger"
The Lookout 1955 February (Vol. 46, No. 2)
Includes "It's All Done with Matches", "Voyage Not Completed", "Nautilus Takes the Plunge" and "After the Clermont" by Cadm. John Jantzen
Includes "Women at Sea" by Faye Hammel, "The Deep Freeze", "Bottles Away!" and "Vessels of Vintage"
Includes "…They're Off!," "From Ravens to Radar," "Squaring Away," "The Fish That Got Away (From the New York Fleet)"
Includes "The Noblest Tradition," "Heroes of the Sea," "Rub a Dub Dub," "Open House," "Burlap Bags and Balinese Princesses"
Includes "A Long Look at the Big Town," "A Ghost City Under the Sea-The Pirates Babylon," "Sailors for Science," "Adopt-A-Boy"
The Lookout 1957 August (Vol. 48, No. 8)
Includes "The Kid," "The Funeral of T-Bone McBride," "Mr. Fulton's Ingenious Steamboat," "In The Evening"
The Lookout 1957 September (Vol. 48, No. 9)
Includes "A Cruise to Treasure: In Quest of the El Capitan," "The New Look," "What's Her Name?"
The Lookout 1957 October (Vol. 48, No. 10)
Includes "The Luckiest Hour," "Fingertip Shipyards," "At the top of the World," "The Fourth Cinderella," "The Last House of Refuge"
The Lookout 1957 November (Vol. 48, No. 11)
Includes "Christmas Cargo," "The Strange Story of Mary Collins," "African Visitors," "Bacchus Boat"
The Lookout 1957 December (Vol. 48, No. 12)
Includes "Anniversary for Conrad," "Bohemia on South Street," "Oils and Salt Water: 1957 Winners," "September Christmas"
The Lookout 1958 January (Vol. 49, No. 1)
Includes "In Appreciation," "Figueira's Cruise," "Stacked for Fame," "Seamen Abroad," "The Sailor as a Shirtsleeve Ambassador," "The Newest Santa"
The Lookout 1958 February (Vol. 49, No. 2)
Includes "Midway For Magellan," "New Skipper for the SCI," "Jennie D. Bell: Still Sailing," "Anchored on South Street," "Hands Across the Sea," "At Our House"
Includes "On the Human Side," "Siren's Song," "On Watch," "The Sailor as a Shirtsleeve Ambassador," "At Our House," "Men Lost at Sea"
Includes "Atoms, Ahoy!," "The Lighthouse the Indians Hated," "On the Road from Mandalay," "At Our House"
Includes "In the Tradition of the Sea," "The Hammock -Pro and Gone," "A New Club at 25 South Street," "Dreamboat Doldrums," "Last of the Chanteys"
Includes "Progress in the Port," "At Our House," "While A Seaport Sleeps," "Through Nelson Strait"
The Lookout 1958 August (Vol. 49, No. 8)
Includes "Prinz Valdemar, Florida Boom Buster," "The Long Strand," "Greek To Us - Angyra Moves to 25 South Street," "Battling the Octopus for Treasure"
The Lookout 1958 September (Vol. 49, No. 9)
Includes "Semper Paratus IBM," "Two for Twenty-Five," "The 9th Month of Christmas," "The Sea Fights Back," "Deep-Sea Trip Ticket"
The Lookout 1958 October (Vol. 49, No. 10)
Includes "The Band of Controversy," "The Neat Spiral," "The Savannah From Paddles to Atoms," "England's Stone Ship," "At Our House"
The Lookout 1958 November (Vol. 49, No. 11)
Includes "In A Barnacle Shell," "Ship Models from Palm Trees," "At Our House," "Seamen Will Shakespeare," "Mysterious Ways"
The Lookout 1959 January (Vol. 50, No. 1)
Includes "History in Flames," "On the Nose," "Tunaville Trolleys," "The Seaquake," "There's Gold in Them There Waves"
The Lookout 1959 February (Vol. 50, No. 2)
Includes "The End of a Liberty," "Ports of Confusion," "Saving Life at Sea," "At Our House"
Includes "125 Years on the Waterfront," "At Our House," "They Followed the Stars," "Big Time Hide-and-Seek"
Includes "To New York via the Azores," "A Tale of Two Bibles," "A Passing Friend," "Talking It Up Below," "Matchstick Ships in Sawdust Seas," "At Our House"
Includes "The Beautiful Disappointment," "Sailors on Canvas," "The Better To Serve," "Evergreen Ships," "At Our House"
Includes "Men Without a Country," "The Sailors' Hymn," "Unsalting the Seas," "At Our House," "Of Ports & Poets," "My Favorite Port"
The Lookout 1959 August (Vol. 50, No. 8)
Includes "Bless This Ship," "Welcome Aboard," "Stamping Seaward," "Hamburg on the Elbe"
The Lookout 1959 September (Vol. 50, No. 9)
Includes "Highlights from the Log of the SCI 1834 - 1959," "Growing Pleasures"
The Lookout 1959 October-November (Vol. 50, No. 10)
Includes "They Came - They Saw Institutes OPEN HOUSE Attracts Many Visitors," "A Christmas Light for the Sailor," "California's Treasure Vault," "I Will Set His Dominion Also in the Sea"
The Lookout 1959 December (Vol. 50, No. 11)
Includes "Christmas at 25 South Street," "Down to the Sea in Adopted Ships," "Introducing the "Battle Man","Ship=Shape Holiday," "Christmas Room Special, 1959 for Seawomen"
The Lookout 1960 February (Vol. 51, No. 1)
Includes "My Favorite Port" by Wilbur L. Motta, "Middle Watch"
The Lookout 1960 August (Vol. 51, No. 4)
Includes "SCI Host to Training Crew," "Special Blessing Poses Problem," "Admiral Nimitz Praises U.S.-Japanese Friendship," "Chinese Junk Weathers Storm," "Parrots: The Sailors' Pet"
The Lookout 1961 February (Vol. 52, No. 1)
Includes "How to Put Vacation Time to Good Use," "Research Ship on High Seas Gets Gift Boxes," "Orme Wilson Honored for 50 Years Service"
Includes "Why We Are In Port Newark," "Seamen's Church Institute Sponsors "Hands Across The Sea" Program," "Grandpa Was a Whaler," "Under The Charley Noble"
The Lookout 1962 June (Vol. 53, No. 2 [Vol. 53 No. 3])
Includes "From the Log of a New Zealand Chaplain," "Hunting Noah's Ark," "Prospectus '62…A New Look," "That Eventful Year…1930," "We Are a Kaleidescope of the Waterfront," "A Mighty Instrument Lives Again"
The Lookout 1962 July/August (Vol. 53, No. 3 [Vol. 53 No. 4])
Includes "Hands Across the Sea," "Down to the Sea…1890," "That Eventful Year…1934," "Favorite Ports O'Call"
The Lookout 1962 September (Vol. 53, No. 4 [Vol. 53 No. 5])
Includes "The Runaway from Ireland," "A Day of Soccer...," "Down to the Sea…1890," "Bottling the Lookout," "That Eventful Year…1943," "Favorite Ports O'Call," "Seamen's Theater"
The Lookout 1962 October (Vol. 53, No. 5 [Vol. 53 No. 6])
Includes "Wanted: 238 Missing Seamen," "Our International Cabaret," "A do-it-yourself Show Boat," "Who Discovered America?," "Down to the Sea…1890," "Favorite Ports O'Call"
The Lookout 1962 November (Vol. 53, No. 6 [Vol. 53 No. 7])
Includes "The Lucky 13," "Operation Dirty Hands," "Sailor's Best Friend...," "Down to the Sea…1890"
The Lookout 1963 January (Vol. 54, No. 1)
Includes "Seamen of the Month: Willie Carl Sapp," "Firsts in '62," "Cap'n Walt's Page," "Mermaid: Enchantress of the Sea" by Orion J. Fox, "Something Old, Something New: 10th Anniversary of the Marine Museum," "Down to the Sea… 1890"
The Lookout 1964 January (Vol. 55, No. 1)
Includes "Days of Grief and Roses," "Two Faces Has January," "Man in Black in a City of White," "And the Waters Turned to Blood," "Seamen Kelly in Zululand"
The Lookout 1964 February-March (Vol. 55, No. 2)
Includes "God, Moby Dick and 25 South Street," "Melville's Life and Times," "The Maldive Shark," "Vignettes From Melville," "The Art of Remembering," "When a Seamen Gives Up the Sea," "Prophet of Peace," "Tall Tales "Shaggy Dog"," "The Sea's in His Suitcase"
Includes "The Big Rope," "The Melting Curtain," "The Fog Horn," "Domain of Neptunes Rex"
Includes "And Baby Makes Three," "Strange Latitudes: The Sargasso Sea," "South Street Five," "That Eventful Year…1945," "Golden Cargo"
The Lookout 1964 July-August (Vol. 55, No. 6)
Includes "The High Cost of Leadership," "Kookie Craft…," ""Junkies" of the Harbor," Sea-Men and the Arts"
The Lookout 1964 September (Vol. 55, No. 7)
Includes "A Salute to Operation Sail 1964," "A Boy Who Was a Man," "The Day the Floating Church Sank," "The Art of Deception," "Bring 'em Back Alive," "Links to the Past"
Includes "We Gather Together," "Taste of Danger," "Fur, Fins and Scales," "Our Victorian Maiden Gets Radical Surgery," "Seamen of Fortune," "Waldo's Venture"
Includes "At Home on State Street," "H.M.S. Victory," "Searching on the Shore," "Mooring Bollards," "Lights that Never Fail," "Warring Whales," "Ship of the Rockbound Cavern"
The Lookout 1968 November (Vol. 59, No. 9)
Includes "A Holiday Message From the Director," "The Christmas Box," "Log of the Jenny" by Dane John, "Monkey-Shines for Christmas" by George R. Berens, "Saga of the Cutty Sark" by E. R. Yarham, "Anchors Away" by Alan P. Major, "Port Your Helm" by Paul Brock
The Lookout 1968 December (Vol. 59, No. 10)
Includes "Global Electronics in Sea Rescues," "Nautical Almanac: Navigator Guide" by Arthur Gaunt, "The Sea's Most Sinister Sandbar," "You and Yours" by Rev. John M. Mulligan
The Lookout 1969 January (Vol. 60, No. 1)
Includes "Seamen's Oasis of Port Newark," "Yes, We Have Bananas" by George R. Berens, "Figurehead Carving For Fun" by Dane John
The Lookout 1969 February-March (Vol. 60, No. 2)
Includes "By Whale Ship to Freedom," "Magellan: The First Circumnavigator" by Brenda Gourgey, "Harbors Say 'Welcome'" by Edyth Harper
Includes "Mariner Pens Ballads At Sea," To Serve the Seafarer in Our Changing World" by Peter Van Wygerden, "A Maritime Menagerie" by N. J. Lopez, "Wives at Sea," "Strange Dream Saved Maine Sailor From a Fiery Death" by J. R. Crane, "America's Land-Locked Lighthouse and Drydock Steamboat" by Charles V. Mathis
Includes "Perhaps He Accomplished the Dream" by Dorothy Trebilcock, "The Mermaid: A Myth?" by Alan P. Major, "Coastal Lights of the Past" by E. A. Humphrey Fenn, T.D.FRGS, "For the Gulls" by George R. Berens, "The Indispensable Buoys" by Dane John, "The Compass Rose"
The Lookout 1969 July-August (Vol. 60, No. 6)
Includes "Vanished City of Herman Melville: 1820-1850" by the Rev. William Haynsworth, "Historical Battery Park and SCI" by Susan E. Lyman, "Suez" by Edyth Harper, "The Ship That Returned to Haunt" by Brenda Ralph Lewis
The Lookout 1970 January (Vol. 61, No. 1)
Includes "Sixteen Bells," "The Dreaded Sargasso," "Pelorus Jack," "The Sea Witch," "Was it ESP?," "In Memoriam"
The Lookout 1970 February-March (Vol. 61, No. 2)
Includes "Spirit Drums on the Lake," "Chemicals in the Sea," "John G. Winslow New President," "Letters from Seamen," "Grog," "From The Graphic," "I Must Come Back"
Includes "Sea Shore Harvest," "Port Newark," "Barnacle," "Those Wonderful Down Easters," "Captain! Don't Tie That Nuptial Knot!," "Troubled Waters," "Hobo," "Enough"
Includes "Mind Your Helm," "Some Don't Make It Back To the Ship In Time," "Women's Council Holds Annual Meeting," "Sea-Town Love Story," "Rev. Miller M. Cragon to Replace Dr. R. T. Foust," "Beware the Bumboatman," "Will the Fathom Become Obsolete?," "Chaplain Richard Bauer Memorialized," "Night Study"
The Lookout 1970 July-August (Vol. 61, No. 6)
Includes "Former Institute Director Dies," "The Map Makers," "The Spill-less Coffee Cup," "They Rowed Four Thousand Miles," "Women With A Way With Wool," "The Sea is Made for Singing"
The Lookout 1970 September (Vol. 61, No. 7)
Includes "Sea Song Soundings," "Ship of Peace," "Marconi Man of Destiny," "Chico," "The Institute is for Learning," "Wavertree Returns to New York," "Sea Moods"
The Lookout 1970 October (Vol. 61, No. 8)
Includes "Potpourri," "Ever Hear of Mooncussers?," "A Seamen Makes the Grade," "Ships' Bells Ring with Mysticism," "Black Terror of the Mississippi," "Sea Novelist Was a Gun-Runner," "Marconi Man of Destiny," "Wild Comments"
The Lookout 1970 November (Vol. 61, No. 9)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "The Gifts of the Magi," "He Measured the Wind," "SCI's Ship Visitors," "When Santa Claus Comes Down the Ships' Funnels Bearing Gifts From SCI," "Coastline of Forbidden Hoards," "The Porpoise of a Study," "Do You Have a Friend in Samarkand?"
The Lookout 1970 December (Vol. 61, No. 10)
Includes "Scale For Giving," "Remember Leviathan?," "Will Power," "Buoys Replace Lightships," "Shark Secrets"
The Lookout 1971 January (Vol. 62, No. 1)
Includes "Last of the Liberties," "Twentieth Anniversary The Book of Remembrance," "The Unsolved Mystery of the S.S. Ourang Medan," "Migration Mysteries of Fish," "Certainly - A Gooney Bird," "Tattoo"
The Lookout 1971 February-March (Vol. 62, No. 2)
Includes "Cemeteries of the Sea Queens," "Conrad Library Expands," "Letters From the Sea," "The Merida's Millions," "The Colors of the Sea," "Why Does Sea Foam?," "Trinity Church," "The Gull," "Written on the Wind"
Includes "Seamen Prisoner Relics," "The Nautical Eye," "When Grandpa Disappeared at Sea," "Figurehead's Mystery Power," "Governors Island," "Sea Saga," "As in the Tossed Seashell"
The Lookout 1971 September (Vol. 62, No. 7)
Includes "Why Sailors Say It Like It Is," "Curse of the Melanope," "High Water," "The Evening Watch," "New York Stock Exchange," "Derelicts," "Discovery"
The Lookout 1971 October (Vol. 62, No. 8)
Includes "Radar Training Expands at SCI," "The Nelson Touch," "Light Fantastic," "The Box Ships," "The Fleet Without a Coastline," "Blessing the Waters," "Ellis Island"
The Lookout 1971 November (Vol. 62, No. 9)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "Riddle of the Christmas Star," "We Are Coming to Your Assistance," "Superstition and the Sea," "The Institute a Host for 155,000 Christmases," "Down to the Sea in Ships With a Benign Big Brother," "The Statue of Liberty"
The Lookout 1971 December (Vol. 62, No. 10)
Includes "With Allah and the Tide," "The House By the Side of the Sea," "Providential Forebodings," "Our Goodly Best," "An Ancient Prayer," "Christmas Room," "Desolate Christmas," "Chinese Cardinal Guest at Institute," "Dutch Treat," "Federal Hall National Memorial," "Down to the Sea in Ships With a Benign Big Brother" (continued from November issue), "Horizons"
The Lookout 1972 January (Vol. 63, No. 1)
Includes "Exploring the Mountains of the Sea," "The Pearl Fisher," "The Unsinkable Lucky Tower," "Mountaintop Mariners," "Brooklyn Bridge," "In Quietude," "The Restless Sea"
The Lookout 1972 February-March (Vol. 63, No. 2)
Includes "Stamps that Sailed to Sea," "Great Eastern Behemoth of Disaster," "Where's the Captain?," "Shrimp Fishing on Horseback," "Letters from Seamen," "Foulis and His Foghorn," "Nautical Language Today," "The Readers Write," "Castle Clinton National Monument"
Includes "Cape Hatteras the Graveyard of the Atlantic?," "Insects at Sea," "The Titan," "The Strange Case of the Admiral Karpfanger," "Men From the Sea," "Afternoon in Battery Park"
The Lookout 1972 July-August (Vol. 63, No. 6)
Includes "The Story of the Erie Canal: Four Feet Deep and Fourty Feet Wide," "Rum & Lime," "Seagulls Screech Their Displeasure," "A Daily Prayer," "Here Comes a Smoker," "The Lightning Puzzle,"Island of Herrings," "Strange Fellow - The Cuttlefish," "Beyond the Dark," "Shadows," "Savings Plan"
The Lookout 1972 September (Vol. 63, No. 7)
Includes "Singing Down to Rio," "Past Present & Future," "The Weather Eye," "The Story of the Erie Canal: Four Feet Deep and Fourty Feet Wide" (continued from July-August issue), "The Overlooked Tragedy," "It Wasn't Tea and Crumpets," "Neptune's Daughter," "Tail of the Hurricane," "Pebbles," "Request"
The Lookout 1972 October (Vol. 63, No. 8)
Includes "Sea of No Return," "Crossing the Line," "Yes, Sailors Are Superstitious," "The Phoenician Star," "Whaling: A Profession of the Past," "Shades of Moby Dick," "Riddle"
The Lookout 1972 November (Vol. 63, No. 9)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "When Christmas Trees Look to the Seas," "River in the Sea," "A White Christmas," "The Elephant of the Sea," "Institute Christmas Boxes Ring the Ships' Bells," "Legend of the Sand Dollar," "Continuing Adult Education at SCI," "Ship Visits Increase in New York Harbor," "Christmas on the Map," "Porpoises Home From Mission," "Nothing," "The Chantey Singer"
The Lookout 1972 December (Vol. 63, No. 10)
Includes "Pirate Doctor," "Norway's Ship-in-a-Showcase," "The Sea Raider with a Heart," "Keeping Fit at the Institute," "Who Steamed Up First?," "Billetheads? Gangway Boards?," "Windsong," "As Rivers Give"
The Lookout 1973 January (Vol. 64, No. 1)
Includes "The Golden Hind," "Ye Dreaded Shipworme," "Buoy In Operations New York Harbor," "Teaching in the Institute in Pace with New Demands," "Radar," "Finding the Way," "The Faith of Captain Silas," "Notes from the SCI Clubs," "Chaplain Daley Retires," "Qualis Ab Incepto," "Sea Mood"
The Lookout 1973 February-March (Vol. 64, No. 2)
Includes "The Blue Riband," "Australia's Coral Wonder," "Bahamian Lightkeepers Go Fishing and End Up at the SCI," "Seagoing Eagles," "Signal Hill," "Letters from Seamen," "The Institute's First Chaplain," "Votive Ship Models," "Deposit and Exchange," "It Seems Strange to Me," "Pearl of Quiet"
Includes "Barge Afire…To the Rescue," "Retired Seaman Gives Ship Drawing to Institute," "Final Voyage," "SCI Goes On the Air," "A Night At Sea," "Ship's Bell at SCI Featured in New Book," "A Timely Message"
Includes "Author Tells Tale of World's Greatest Ship," "The Many Faces of the Vaterland/Leviathan," "On Camera," "The Hittels Say Good-bye," "Volunteer Knitter Grows Own Wool," "Institute Offers New Courses for Towboat Operators," "New Correspondence Course for Amateur Boatmen," "Charles Leroy McCleary...Seaman in the Making," "Ship Disasters Continue to Grow," "Battery Park Landmark...Soon to Disappear," "Ocean Dawns"
The Lookout 1973 July-August (Vol. 64, No. 6)
Includes "Institute Celebrates Triple Birthday," "SCI Opens Macramé Show May 22," "New Faces In Town," "New Found Money," "Lady Sees SCI At Work At Sea," "Machias, Maine - Scene of Revolutionary War's First Naval Battle," "And the Lucky Winner Is…," "New Museum on Liberty Island," "The Living Fossil of the Atlantic... Spider or Crab," "Figureheads at Mystic," "The New Colossus"
The Lookout 1973 September (Vol. 64, No. 7)
Includes "The Conrad Library - More Than Just a Collection of Books," "SCI Hosts Sightseeing Tours for Russian Crewmembers," "About Tax-Reform and The Social Service Agency," "Twenty-First Anniversary A Book of Remembrance," "Sea Bear Captain Tells Tale of Bravery & Rescue," "A Voice From the Main Deck: Echoes of the Past Part I," "Titanic Lighthouse Still to Guide the Stranger"
The Lookout 1973 October (Vol. 64, No. 8)
Includes "School Time at SCI," "Freighter Odyssey," "Marine Sculptor Digs for Whales," "New Staff Member The Reverend A. Dawson Teague," "A Voice From the Main Deck: Echoes of the Past Part II," "A Helpful Hint for Holiday Shopping," "Surfing Seagull"
The Lookout 1973 November (Vol. 64, No. 9)
Includes "Home for Christmas…Maybe," "Scrimshaw's a More Eggsacting Art These Days," "Boxing Time at SCI," "The Man Who Sailed the Mayflower," "It's Sassamanesh Time," "A Nautical Quiz," "Largest U.S. Ship Ever Built Christened at Former Brooklyn Navy Yard," "Autumn at the Institute"
The Lookout 1973 December (Vol. 64, No. 10)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "Celebrating Christmas Around the World," "Plum Duff," "Ship Ahoy!"
The Lookout 1974 January (Vol. 65, No. 1)
Includes "Coast Guard Patrols Commercial Fishing Areas," "Three Poems," "Department of Special Services Report," "Unique Sailor's Bibles Now Collectors Items"
The Lookout 1974 February-March (Vol. 65, No. 2)
Includes "Sing Out Ye Hardy Seamen," "Rescued Crew Stay at Institute," "The Night I Believed," "The Great Doughnut Hole Invention," "In Memoriam"
Includes "Tusitala Teller of Tales," "The Changing Scene On the Waterfront," "Seaman Receives Commendation on Retirement Date," "Summer At Sea," "Shampoo"
The Lookout 1974 July-August (Vol. 65, No. 6)
Includes "Institute Awards First Certificate in Maritime Transportation," "James Fenimore Cooper and His Whaleship Union," "A Lifetime of Knotting," "Around the Clock Flag Display," "The Spirit of Liberty"
The Lookout 1974 September (Vol. 65, No. 7)
Includes "Thousands Visit SCI on July 4th," "SCI To Get Whole New Town for Neighbor," "Summer School at the Roosevelt Institute," "Needles in the Attic," "A Maritime Sampler From the New York Historical Society," "The Legend of the Waving Girl," "Board Member Makes Special Run Aboard Morgenthau," "Landlocked"
The Lookout 1974 October (Vol. 65, No. 8)
Includes "A Book of Remembrance - Twenty-Two Years of Living Legacy," "Captain Sam Ober," "Storm," "Congenial Passengers," "Seaman Perry Ellis," "From the Log," "The Midnight Helm," "NBC News Visits SCI"
The Lookout 1974 November (Vol. 65, No. 9)
Includes "Stamps at Sea," "Ex-Seaman Visits Hundreds By Mail," "The Reverend George Dawson," "Lower Manhattan Today… and Tomorrow," "Sarah Hale and Thanksgiving Day," "Dear Friends," "Travelers," "Credo I Believe"
The Lookout 1974 December (Vol. 65, No. 10)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "My Club," "Surgery for the President at Sea," "Ten Wishes From a Wise Man," "From the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad," "A Yuletide Quiz," "Two Poems for Christmas"
The Lookout 1975 January (Vol. 66, No. 1)
Includes "Those Holidays," "The Orford Merman," "State University of New York Maritime College," "Don't Forget the Camera When You Put to Sea," "From the Port Newark Log," "Shore Anchor"
The Lookout 1975 February-March (Vol. 66, No. 2)
Includes "The Sea… Some Thoughts on Its Future," "Young Cadet is Unexpected Friend of SCI Family," "Captain Billy, Brazil Traders and Ague," "A Penny Saved…," "Tall Ships," "Yia Sou, Greece Opens at Institute," "From Port Newark," "And Just Up the Street...," "From My Room... At 15 State Street," "Songs of a Drop-Out," "Deck Song"
Includes "The U.S. National Bicentennial National Maritime Day & SCI," "Urban Quilt Program," "Ship Disaster Victims Arrive at SCI," "A Hymn to Valor"
The Lookout 1975 July-August (Vol. 66, No. 6)
Includes "The Revolutionary War at Sea," "Institute Holds Graduation On Deck," "So Long, Boss," "Seadogs or Canine Gourmets at Sea"
The Lookout 1975 September (Vol. 66, No. 7)
Includes "Steam Schooner," "19th Century Marine Underwriter's Office Planned for Smithsonian," "A Book of Remembrance," "There Was A Moby Dick," "The Ship That Was Sunk by Butterflies," "An Ancient Mariner"
The Lookout 1975 October (Vol. 66, No. 8)
Includes "Beautiful Hands Are They That Do," "Whopping Whales," "About the Famous Australian White Whale Pelorus Jack," "New Nautical Name-Board Given to Library," "Remember Her?," "Titanic Memorial Lighthouse A Landmark Again… Thanks to Exxon," "The Gardener"
The Lookout 1975 November (Vol. 66, No. 9)
Includes "High Jumps and High Jinks Make Seamen's International Sports Week A Rollicking Success," "Ship Money," "Whopping Whale Part II," "Pier A's Fate Still Unknown," "A Christmas Shopping Note," "Thanksgiving Prayers"
The Lookout 1975 December (Vol. 66, No. 10)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "The Christmas Candle," "Requiem for a Christmas Goose," "Christmas…," "Five Poems," "A Seasonal Note," "A Christmas Quiz"
The Lookout 1976 January (Vol. 67, No. 1)
Includes "Laid-up In Red Hook," "Port Newark," "Consider the Ocean," "Tugboat Heide Moran Heads for the High Seas. Destination… Piraeus," "The Bennington Battle Flag," "A Morning Wish," "Sailors on the Docks"
The Lookout 1976 February-March (Vol. 67, No. 2)
Includes "A Mystery Voyage?... On a Freighter?," "From the Log," "Ten Commandments for Going Ashore," "Salute '76," "The Roaring 20's," "With Sea-Fixed Gaze"
Includes "A Mystery Voyage?... On a Freighter? Part II," "The Other Side of the Coin," "Some Thoughts on Memorial Day and Heros… Both Known and Unsung," "Friends of SCI Sponsor Highly Successful Mini-Landbridging Seminar," "Colonial Cookery," "Sailboats"
The Lookout 1976 September (Vol. 67, No. 7)
Includes "The Tall Ships Arrive," "Seamen's Church Institute Doc Cures Old or Injured Ship Models," "Dr. John M. Mulligan, Institute Director, Sets Retirement Date. Board Names Successor," "U.S. Custom House Again Open to the Public," "The House of Ocean Born Mary or The Baby Who Won a Pirate's Heart," "Colonial Cookery," "The Aran Isles"
The Lookout 1976 October (Vol. 67, No. 8)
Includes "The Eighth Wonder of the World," "Of Ships, and Tack and Sealing Wax," "A Book of Remembrance," "Bakke Briefs NDTA on Soviet/American Maritime Progress," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier," "A New Voyage - Too Exciting to Miss," ""Colonial Cookery," "Driftwood"
The Lookout 1976 December (Vol. 67, No. 10)
Includes "Benefit Dinner," "Silent Auction," "A Holiday Message," "Christmas - A Season of the Heart," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 2 Writers at Sea," "Colonial Cookery," "Take Heaven, Take Peace, Take Joy," "Who Is Santa Claus?"
The Lookout 1977 February-March (Vol. 68, No. 2)
Includes "At SCI Nighttime is Class Time for Shorebased Maritime Personnel," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 4 American Imagery and Visions of the Sea," "Otto," "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste Part I," "Pier Update - steps in the right direction," "The Devil's Wake"
Includes "Maundy Thursday," "Maritime Association Holds Important New Exposition /Conference at Seamen's Church Institute," "An Isle Where Good Men Rest," "A.S.T.A. meets at Institute," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 6 A New World Future," "To the Seachantress"
The Lookout 1978 January (Vol. 69, No. 1)
Includes "Today's Ships," "The Canal That Couldn't Be Built," "Christmas Time for Macy's Paraders," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 12 The Sea: Defensive Barrier or Invasion Path," "Year's End," "A Recipe For New Year's Punch"
The Lookout 1978 February-March (Vol. 69, No. 2)
Includes "Friends of SCI Gala Dinner," "Today's Ships," "A Fine Crew, Indeed," "A Testimony to the Work of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York," "Tusitala Teller of Tales," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 13 The Sea: Connector or Barrier?" "Cup Crazy," "Toute Suite (Toot Sweet)"
Includes "Shanghai Days of Early San Francisco," "Today's Ships," "Ships Ashore in New Jersey," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 14 Ships and the Sailor," "Pirates," "Remembered Winds"
The Lookout 1978 July-August (Vol. 69, No. 6)
Includes "Greater Port of New York & New Jersey Begins National Maritime Day at SCI," "Reflections on Maritime Day 1978," "The Unsung Heroes of the Bloody Seas," "SCI Outreach Gains Momentum," "Conferences and Meetings," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 16 From Work to Sport," "Comment," "Memorial Models,"Far East Odyssey," "Because of It"
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1906
Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1907
Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner and Augusta Morris De Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1908
Sixty-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Chaplain Walter A. A. Gardner, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1909
Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Rev. Walter A. A. Gardner, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1910
Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Edmund L. Baylies and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1911
Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Edmund L. Baylies, J. Augustus Johnson and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1912
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1913
Sixty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from J. Augustus Johnson, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, Edmund L. Baylies and Catharine S. Leverich.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1914
Seventieth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Edmund L. Baylies and Catharine S. Leverich.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1915
Seventy-First Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, the Building Committee, and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1916
Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1917
Seventy-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1918
Seventy-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1919
Seventy-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1920
Seventy-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1921
Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Certificate of Auditors and Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1922
Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reports from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1923
Seventy-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Augusta Morris de Peyster.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1924
Eightieth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Announcement from the Building Committee and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfied.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1925
Eighty-First Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Announcement from the Building Committee and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfied.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1926
Eighty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Announcement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1927
Eighty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Announcement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1928
Eighty-Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes New Building Statement and Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1929
Eighty-Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1930
Eighty-Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1931
Eighty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Report from Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1932
Eighty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes In Memoriam of Founders of Institute.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1933
Eighty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Profiles on Thomas P. Cummings, Gorge Norton Titus, Rev. Henry John Whitehouse, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Francis Upton Johnston, Theodore Dehon, Charles Tracy, Daniel B. Whitlock and John H. Morrison and a Report from William Williams and J. Mayhew Wainwright.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1934
Ninetieth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Chronology of Institution.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1935
One Hundred and First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Illustrations of Famous Sailing Ships of the Past.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1936
One Hundred and Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Reproductions of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Stanley W. Woodward and Charles Robert Patterson.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1937
One Hundred and Third Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes Photos by Walter Suessman and Paul Parker and a Drawing by Richard Greyble.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1938
One Hundred and Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes Review of 105th Anniversary and Review of American Seamen.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1939
One Hundred and Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Effect of the War in Europe", "Improvements in the Building", "Seamen in the Making", "Where Seafarers Read" and "Mrs. Roper's 50th Anniversary."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1940
One Hundred and Sixth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Ship News" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1941
One Hundred and Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "The War at Sea Continues" and "The War at Sea - 1914-1918" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1942
One Hundred and Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Dedication" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1943
The Year 1943 In Review. Includes "Street of Ships" and "Portrait of an Era 1840-50" by Marjorie D. Candee and "New York - and the Sea" by Robert Greenhalgh Albion.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1944
The Year 1944 In Review (One Hundred and Eleventh Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "South Street - 1945" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1945
The Year 1945 In Review (One Hundred and Twelfth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "These are the Signs of Peace" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1946
The Year 1946 in Review (One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Cargoes - 1947" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1947
The Year 1947 In Review (One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Dedication of Mural", "Soberly Yours" and "Book Blossoms That Never Fade."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1948
The Year 1948 In Review (One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "More Seamen Than Jobs" and "Clinics Especially Busy."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1949
The Year 1949 In Review (One Hundred Fifteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "The Worst Year Since 1923."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1950
The Year 1950 In Review (One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Street of Ships - South Street - June, 1950" by Marjorie D. Candee.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1951
The Year 1951 In Review (One Hundred Seventeenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York). Includes "Merchantmen" by C. Fox Smith.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1952
One Hundred Eighteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "10,000 Seamen Located" and "Christmas at Sea."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1953
One Hundred Nineteenth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "At the Library" and "On Christmas."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1954
One Hundred Twentieth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "The Way Ahead."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1955
One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Lost and Found: 11,000" and "Remembering Christmas."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1956
One Hundred Twenty Second Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Pilot Aboard" and "Missing Seamen Sought by Relatives and Friends."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1957
One Hundred Twenty Third Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Reaching Out" and "It Wasn't Just the Gift."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1958
One Hundred Twenty Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Waterfront Priests."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1959
One Hundred Twenty Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "An International Undertaking."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1960
One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute - in the Decade of the '60's" and "Port Newark."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1961
One Hundred Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "The Church and the Harbor."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1962
One Hundred Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Includes "SCI Log - Excerpts from Daily Staff Reports."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1963
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Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1964
One Hundred Thirty-First Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Seaman of the Month Bruce Warren", "Gemutlichkeit and a Trophy", "Happiness is a Thing Called Sharing", "I Dont' Believe in Sea Monsters" by George B. Berens, "... A Dying Art" by Orlan Fox and "That Eventful Year... 1922."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1965
One Hundred Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Gallant Ship" by George R. Berens, "Strange Navy" and "They Bowed the Atlantic" by James M. Powles.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1966
One Hundred Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Sea Gulls" by P. J. Reale, "The Vow That Lives" by Peter Hesp, "They Still Hunt for Sunken Treasure" by Raymond Schuessler and "Ships and the Seaman" by James P. Baughman.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1967
One Hundred Thirty Fourth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Lights That Never Fail" by Raymond Schuessler, "A.1 at Lloyd's", "Pepper, Please" by Enola Chamberlin and "Saga of the Privateers" by Paul Brock.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1968
One Hundred Thirty Fifth Annual Report of the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York. Includes "Widow's Son" by E. W. Harper, "When the Russian Flagship Svetlana Held Easter Services in New York Harbor", "The Early Dream" by Sanford Sternlicht and "Prayerful Mariners" by George R. Berens.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1969
1969 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "Birds at Sea" by Ray Rives, "Hands Across the Sea to Portgual" by Harold G. Petersen, "Three Sea Devils" by John Britton, "Troubled Waters" by Glynn Mapes and "Horned Whale Lurks in the Arctic."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1970
The 1970 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "They Sailed Into Oblivion" by Paul Brock, "First American Lifeboat Built in Nantucket" by J. R. Crane, "Maury: America's Sea Chart Pioneer" by Alan Major, "The Alanthus' Day of Glory" by James M. Powles, "Workers' Paradise" by Fredie Steve Harris and "A Salute to Our Neighbors: The Seamen's Bank for Savings in the City of New York."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1971
1971 Report of the Director to the Board of Managers. Includes "Waterspouts, Genii of the Seas" by Arthur Black, "The Hudson River Night Boat" by Alan Major, "Block Island Life-Saving Station", "The Pal" and "A Salute to Our Neighbors: Fraunces Tavern."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1972
The Annual Report 1972. Includes "From Clipper Ships to Intermode", "Spring '73 at the Roosevelt Institute" and "The Blue Riband" by Paul Brock.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1973
1973 Annual Report. Includes "SCI - The Seaman's Special Friend for 140 Years", "Merchant Marine School Has Banner Year in '73", "Mariners International Center a Welcome Oasis for Seamen in New Jersey Port Area", "Missing Seaman's Bureau Continues to Perform Vital Service", "Ship Visitors Offer Helping Hand to New Arrivals in Port", "Counseling Services in Regular Demand by Seamen and Their Families" and "Institute Provides Protestant Chaplain for Staten Island U.S. Public Health Hospital."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1974
1974 Annual Report. Includes "Some Thoughts on Seamen... and SCI" and "New Program Launched at SCI."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1975
1975 Annual Report. Includes "Why I Opt for SCI" by Pat Jones.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1976
1976 Annual Report. Includes "Santa's Ho-Ho-Ho Heard by 10,000 at Sea Last Christmas" and "Letters from Seamen."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report - 1977
Annual Report 1977. Includes "The Conrad Library... a Quiet but Busy Place for Seamen" by Robert Wolk.
Includes "Institutes on the Great Lakes", "Memorial Service", "Visitors" and "Mercantile Fleets of the World"
Includes "A Bit of History", "North River Station" and "Breakwater Notes"
Includes "Work Among the Yachtsmen", "Sleeping on Billiard Tables", "Breakwater Notes", "No Allotment Here" and "$5,000 for Relief Work"
The Lookout September 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 5)
Includes "The North River Station", "An Appreciated Gift" and "Novel Life Preserver"
Includes "Who Man Our Ships?" and "The Breakwater"
The Lookout November 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 7)
Includes "A Sailor's Burial", "North River Station", "Legislation in Contemplation"and "Concerning American Seamen"
The Lookout December 1910 (Vol. 1 No. 8)
Includes "Report to the Diocese" and "An Important Commission"
Includes "Breaking Ground" and "To Avoid Confusion"
The Lookout February 1911 (Vol 1. No. 10)
Includes "Endorsement by the Chamber of Commerce" and "Special Matinee Performance of Konigskinder, under the Auspices of the Seamen's Benefit Society"
Includes "New York Produce Exchange: Resolutions Unanimously Adopted by the Board of Managers February 16, 1911", "The Building Fund", "Konigskinder Matinee" and "North River Station"
1 book, 11 pages
Includes "A Larger View", "Seamen's Benefit Society" and "A Layout of Rooms"
Includes "The Second Step" and "Mr. Tristam Johnson"
The Lookout September 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 5)
Includes "Thirty Thousand Letters" and "Benefit of Clergy"
Includes "Progress of the Building" and "Savings Department"
The Lookout November 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 7)
Includes "The New Elevation" and "The Sailor and the Hotel"
The Lookout December 1911 (Vol. 2 No. 8)
Includes "The Building Grows", "The Annual Meeting", "A Letter Home", "After Six Years", "A 'Party'" and "Gift of a Piano"
1 book, 12 pages
Includes "Eddystone Lighthouse Tower", "A Sequel", "Christmas Eve at No. 1 State", "The Lonely Old Sailor", "Cosmopolitan Depositors" and "Fog."
booklet
The Lookout February 1912 (Vol. 2 No. 10)
Includes "The Wreck of the 'Virginia'", "Sleeping on the Floor", "We Need Comfort Bags", "Diverse Incidents" and "The Superintendent's House."
Includes "Bread Upon the Waters", "Savings Department Problem", "A. B. of 'Essex'", "A Greek and a Cab Driver", "The Husband", "Shipping Department", "Comfort Bags" and "Clothing."
Includes "Clothing 'Titanic' Crew", "A Correction", "Bishop Burch Speaks at Titanic Memorial Service", "The Final Installment" and "The Superintendent's House."
Includes "275 Persons Contribute to Lantern Tower - $3,000 Still Needed", "Shanghaied Seamen in 1912", "The Organ" and "The Passing of a Warship."
Includes "Adventure Seekers", "About Apprentice Lads", "From Buenos Aires", "The Hand-Made Cross", "After Fourteen Years", "What They Write" and "Large Bedrooms at $250."
Includes "What the Seaman Calls 'Dunnage'", "Another Seaman Victim", "A Bit of Description", "Two Dormitories at $1,000 Each - One Already Reserved", "Sailors or Seamen?", "Watch and Watch" and "'Titanic Memorial Lighthouse.'"
The Lookout September 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 5)
Includes "Lantern Tower Memorial", "A Lad of Fifteen", "Fifty Years at Sea" and "The Legacy."
Includes "Unique Foundations of the New Institute", "'Titanic Memorial'", "An Acknowledgement", "An Adjustment", "Large Bedrooms at $250.00" and "From the Harbour."
The Lookout November 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 7)
Includes "In the Depths", "'The Times' Comments", "Chaplain Carpenter Resigns", "A Bit of Psychology", "Lads from the Ships", "To Rig a Ship", "$5,000 Contribution" and "Thank Offering"
The Lookout December 1912 (Vol. 3 No. 8)
Includes "The Washington Statue in Wall Street", "A Slice of Life", "Cycling Around the World", "Lunch Room Taken", "Calenders", "Cockatoo from Singapore", "Fishermen's Yarn" and "Comedy and Tragedy."
Includes "Chanties", "Weather Vane Taken", "The Obsession of Luc", "Home to Die", "In the Mail", "'Breakwater' Christmas", "Immediate Response", "Recreation Room Equipment" and "A Cake."
The Lookout February 1913 (Vol. 3 No. 10)
Includes "What Really Happens", "The Fitting out of Thomas", "Officers' Rooms at $250.00", "Dormitories Taken", "Compass $750.00", "'Alias'", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500" and "$1.00 Will Help."
Includes "The Arm of Anastesiades", "Lighthouse Dedication on Roof of New Building", "Main Stair-case Taken", "The 'Longboat'", "Elevators $1,000 Each", "The Versatile Edward", "Baggage Department $2,000", "Compass Taken", "Middle Dormitory Taken at $1,000", "The 'Slop-Chase' $1,500", "Altar in Chapel", "Andrew's Imagination", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500", "Magneta Clocks $1,250.00", "Afterward" and "Billiard Table Gift."
Includes "One State Street Sold", "Sixteen to Fifty Years", "Officers' Rooms at $250.00", "Vestry Room Furniture", "Chapel Gifts", "Baggage Department $2,000", "Necessity's Child", "Laundry $1,500", "An Aeroplaning $20.00", "Two Tables and Shuffle-Board $770.00", "Kitchen (or 'Galley') $2,500", "Elevators $1,000 Each", "Magneta Clocks $1,250.00", "One Fountain Taken", "Finnish Names" and "Five Pianos $1,750"
Includes "The Spirit of the Memorial Speaks", "The New Institute on the Cover", "New Benefactors", "The Arrival", "The End of the 'Sentinel': New Boat Will Cost $10,000", "Lantern Tower Cards", "Lighthouse Tower and Timeball Dedicated to the Titanic Victims" and "Through the Window."
Includes "The Christening", "From the Harbor", "Opening: The New Institute", "One of the Best Wishes" and "From Australia."
Includes "The Dirge of the Derelict", "Ice Cream Money", "The Confidence of Daniel", "New Boat Needed to Cost $10,000", "When Chinese Meet British" and "A Beautiful Memorial Custom"
Includes "We Must Have a New Boat", "Ice Cream for Apprentices", "The Day of Days" and "Stories About 'Dunnage'"
The Lookout September 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 5)
Includes "Stories About Dunnage", "Large Gifts", "'Passing the Love of Women'" and "The Case of Henry."
Includes Eight Black and White Photographs of the Building at 25 South Street and "The Light in the Tower", "The Man-Who-Gives-Advice" and "Seamen at Home in New Institute."
The Lookout November 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 7)
Includes Four Black and White Photographs of the Building at 25 South Street and "Our New Boat the J. Hooker Hamersley", "New Founder", "A Bed for a Night" and "New Chapel Dedicated."
The Lookout December 1913 (Vol. 4 No. 8)
Includes "What They Ask 'Following' the Sea", "The Cheeriness of Michael", "President Elected: Edmund Lincoln Baylies", "Seamen's Bedrooms All Taken" and "Battle Between the 'Hornet' and the 'Penguin': Extracts from the Diary of Captain William Skiddy"
Includes "Jack and the Social Instinct", "A Desire for Shoes", "How Money Fluctuates", "The Ready Tears", "Savings Deposited", "First Christmas Concert", "Spanish Seamen", "Shanghaiing" and "'Ambulance' Ships."
The Lookout February 1914 (Vol. 4 No. 10)
Includes "Good Ship 'Elevator'", "The Sweet Tooth of Bobby", "Michael, The Impressionistic", "A Matter of Sentiment", "Music, Drama and 'Art'", "Officers' Rooms $250.00", "Mrs. Augusta Cook Chapin", "The Lure of the Airship", "Gifts or Memorials", "Wreck of the 'Marjorie Brown'" and "Announcements of Gifts."
Includes "The Blowing of the Wind", "An Appeal to Rosa", "To Sleep o'Nights", "Gifts or Memorials", "The Ring That Jack Lost", "'These Few Lines'", "Confirmation Services", "Jose and Root Beer", "Clothing and Shoes", "Mrs. William Rhinelander", "J. Augustus Johnson" and "All Officers Rooms Taken."
Includes "Grains of Salt", "Other Pianos Needed", "On the Way to the 'Lakes'", "Anonymous Gift of $2,000", "Class Room, $1,500", "Lenten Sewing Class", "A Belief in Gardens", "Sailing in the 'Longboat'", "Small Dormitory $350", "The Long Arm of the Law", "The Enterprise of Max", "Kneeling Benches $200.00", "The Rewards of Ingenuity", "The Chocolate Soda" and "The Pretense of Paul."
Includes "The Friendly Argument", "Existence Closes an Account", "'Winter's Traces'", "Supplementary Dormitory Gift", "In the Enemy's Camp", "His Comrade", "Entertaining Boys", "Sending a Picture Home", "Ginger Ale the Pretender", "At Parting", "'Ples, Mister!'", "Maps of the World", "Animation", "The Figure that Proves" and "Palm Tree from Cuba."
Includes "Whistling for Trouble", "Ice Cream Money", "Borrowing", "In Search of Adventure", "Between New York and Brooklyn", "Uniform for Institute Employees", "Death and the Foreigner: A Burial Fund", "Brother Three", "About Shipping", "Jacob Suggests", "Inventing a Language", "David Changes His Mind", "Care's Ravelled Sleeve", "Chapel Chairs", "Six Rooms on 12th Floor $250.00", "Window in Chapel", "Music on the 'Queen Bess'" and "Vestry Room $500.00."
Includes "The Last Port", "Henry Makes an Inquiry", "$1,000 Sent Home", "Michael Makes a Choice", "Window in Chapel", "Vestry Room Made Gift", "A Little Brother to Noah", "By Way of Gratitude", "Seeing New York Automobile", "Being Absent-Minded", "Death and the Foreigner: A Burial Fund", "Portable Organ Needed", "The Institute Entertains", "Gifts or Memorials" and "The Fear of Sharks."
Includes "Sea Fever", "When a Sailor Needs a Friend", "The Rebellion of Morris", "'Seeing New York'", "Sleepy Patriotism", "Incinerator $450", "Albert and the Law", "Supplementary 'Slop Chest'", "Toys for the Canal-Boat Children", "Oscar Proves Himself", "Pictures Wanted for the North River Station", "John is Misunderstood", "Three New Fountains", "Five Rooms on Twelfth Floor $250 Each", "That Eagerness for Battle", "To Make Ice Cream. $500", "Hospital Cases" and "Small Dormitory $350."
The Lookout September 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 5)
Includes "Seagoing Samaritans", "Those North Sea Mines", "One Officer's Room", "The Green Cucumber", "Soda Fountain $1,500", "Albert the Perplexed", "The Retort Caustic", "S. S. Red Cross", "Laundry $1,500", "War and Baseball", "The Whole World Kin", "Victor Records", "Three New Fountains", "Five Rooms on Twelfth Floor $250 Each", "Cedric Pays His Debt", "From an Apprentice's Mother" and "Small Dormitory $350."
Includes "The Ballad of Lost Ships", "A Little Matter of Race", "Safety First", "The Heroic Peter", "Blundering Billy", "Peace Service: Dr. Stires Speaks", "Portable Organ Gift", "Progress of the Boat", "Frame for the Trowel. $10.00", "Altar Piece in Small Chapel", "Chapel Chairs", "Rosewood Billiard Table", "Chapel Chairs $5.00" and "Tom Seeks a Job"
The Lookout November 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 7)
Includes "At the Hotel Desk", "The Quest of Limpy", "A Transfer of Motives", "A Seaman's Viewpoint", "Green Things for the Lobby", "Off Duty", "Small Dormitory Made Gift", "50 Chapel Chairs", "Chapel Chairs" and "Gifts or Memorials."
The Lookout December 1914 (Vol. 5 No. 8)
Includes "Gifts to the Building Fund May be Made Memorials", "What the Sailor Calls 'Dunnage'", "For German Sailors", "That Complete Reference", "Models of Ships", "Greens for Christmas", "A Choice of the World", "About Encouragement", "It Can Be Done", "Seaman's Room 1042 ($100)", "Recent Subscriptions", "Clothing and Shoes", "The 'J. Hooker Hamersley' New Tender Launched" and "Admiral Mahan."
Includes "Seeking the Lost", "Illuminated Sign $500.00", "Emil Goes Back", "A Matter of Integrity", "Christmas for Boys", "For the Stage", "By Early Candle Light", "The Artistic Soul of Nils", "The Missing Husbands", "Christmas at the Institute", "Warm Clothes", "Dividing the Angle" and "Anthony Swears Off."
The Lookout February 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 2)
Includes "The Peruvian Canary", "Monthly Luncheon", "The Forward Step", "Are We Downhearted?" and "The Institute Entertains 'S.S. Appam' and Six Other Crews."
Includes "A Little Spartan Treatment", "Staff Office Gift", "The Slumbers of Larry", "Electric Massage", "Special Lenten Services", "The Incinerator", "He Looks for the East", "Entertainments", "Princeton Evening at the Seamen's Church Institute", "Fighting for a Principle" and "Illuminated Sign $500."
Includes "To Enclose the Roof", "Bert Hears the Church Bell", "The Brief Career of Francis", "His Name", "Sailory Day May, 7th", "Drinking Water $500", "Promising to Pay", "The Peaceable Pipe" and "Thomas M. Potts."
Includes "Sailors' Day Service: May 7th", "A Choice of Words", "New Piano", "Somewhere! Some Country!", "The Convictions of Mrs. Zions", "Gift of Desk", "Enclosing the Roof" and "The Cautious Conscience."
Includes "Uncle Lans", "Bob Leaves His Address", "A Matter of Pride", "Not Medical Attention", "Our New Telegraph Office", "Old Carpet", "The Preoccupied Andrew", "Bergen in the Bronx" and "Motion Picture Machine $700."
Includes "A Wanderer's Song", "A Question of Etiquette", "Geoffrey Prepares", "Water for the Thirsty", "A Family Secret", "The Good Old Days", "The Laundry $1500.00", "As for Marriage", "Out of the Darkness", "The Fitness of Prizes", "A Sportsman's Tribute", "The Search", "His Modest Wish", "Sunday Service", "The Talent of Marie", "Clothing and Shoes", "Two Staff Offices $200.00" and "German Efficiency"
Includes "The Tangible Vision: Roof Enclosure Assured", "The Gift", "His Floral Offering", "Motion Picture Machine $700", "The Enforced Smile", "A Matrimonial Viewpoint", "Something in a Name", "Mentioned in Despatches", "Victrola Records", "The Courtesy of Olaf" and "A Matter of English."
The Lookout September 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 9)
Includes "The Truth About Tim", "A Matter of Taste", "Common Sense", "Beneath Flowered Silk", "A Question of Fear", "The Sea", "Defining Trouble", "Geography First", "Those Shanghaiing Days", and "Passing of the Shanghaiing Days: Regret of Battery's Old Boatman."
The Lookout October 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 10)
Includes "Two 'S. S. West Point' Boys", "The Perfect Description", "The Active Pianos", "On the Bulletin Board", "The Feminine Place", "When the Barge Sank", "Burial Fund", "Magazines and Books", "Lecture Season", "An Apology" and "Altar Flowers."
The Lookout November 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 11)
Includes "Our Early History", "Lookout Publication", "A Proof of Friendship", "The Seamen's Church Institute of America" and "Report of the Joint Board of the Seamen's Church Institute of America."
The Lookout December 1916 (Vol. 7 No. 12)
Includes "Captains Adventurous", "Antonio Sees a Ghost", "An Appeal to Vanity", "Hands Across the Sea", "Christmas Presents", "Yankee Seamen Command New 'Fore-and-Afters'", "Christmas Dinners", "A Memory for Places", "There Ain't No News", "Getting Information", "A Matter of Identity" and "A Gift for the Game Room."
Includes "1917 Bows!", "The Best Part", "Hendrik and the Gift", "Buying Amusement", "Turkey for Dinner", "Reflectoscope", "Early Candle Gleams", "The Musical Ear of Max", "Hospital Christmas", "Apprentice Holidays", "Anson the Ambitious" and "The Boon of Cleanliness."
The Lookout February 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 2)
Includes "Musical Gift", "Like a Letter from Home", "The Throat of Sandy", "Being Visited", "The Precaution", "A Matter of Pride", "What He Wanted", "Reflectoscope", "Magazines", "An Amiable Deduction", "Simon is Sorry", "Books", "A Taste for Tropics", "A Cause for Friendship" and "Startling Figures."
Includes "The Roof Magnificent", "A Little English", "Spanish Ship Sails", "Saxeby, the Thrifty", "Reflectoscope Given", "Exchanges - Our Bad Penny", "Coast Guard Recruits", "Under the Cap", "Improvements", "The Perfect Tribute", "Sailors' Day on April 22nd", "The Call of the Salt" and "Edward N. Tailor."
Includes "Sailors' Day April 22, 1917", "Tickets for Sailors' Day", "Sailors' Day Poster", "Their Day", "New Flag", "Dr. Mansfield Speaks in Charleston", "Roof Enclosure Gift Increased to $50,000", "And Romance", "Confirmation in Hospital" and "Two Staff Offices, Gift of Mrs. Polk."
Includes "The Well Known Prodigal", "Survivors from Sunken Ships", "American Flag Slide", "Easter Gift Concert", "A Gentle Message", "The Laundry", "Gold Braid and Buttons", "Tommy, the Cheerful", "Sextant Gift", "A Prisoner", "You Can't be Too Careful", "In Two Years", "A Scotch Viewpoint", "In Spite of Years", "A Gentleman Thief" and "Cosmopolitan Sewing Class."
Includes "Ships, Officers, Men!", "A Lack of Enterprise", "No Empty Beds", "May Moving", "Hopeful", "Signal Flags $50.00", "Gift of Towels", "Lines by an Amateur Naval Reserve Seaman and Poet", "Active Service", "The Imperfect Subway", "Mother's Day", "Institute Men Enlist", "Ben, the Belligerent" and "Roof Nearly Finished"
Includes "Scholars on the 'Hamersley'", "And It Really Happens", "No Food, No Water", "French and British Gunners", "On the Roof", "Why He Was Certain", "Interned Seamen Study", "3,800 Seamen Register", "What They Answered", "Hot Weather Music", "Flowers in Memory" and "Willing to Fight."
Includes "Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse Donors of Roof", "Let the Seamen Ride", "The Graceful Compliment", "Gift of Flags", "Skating Seamen", "Dr. Brady Preaches", "Braving the Submarined Sea", "Ice Cream Money" and "The Last Large Gift $1,000."
The Lookout September 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 9)
Includes "They See New York", "Men Turned Away", "The Failing Light", "Seamen to Ride", "Rollers Against Rum", "The Placard", "Sailor Collar Stripes", "The Old Theme", "He Stated it Exactly", "Navigation School Moves", "Shore Clothes, Sea Gear Tailor Shop", "Motor Kills Seaman" and "Records, Rolls, Music."
The Lookout October 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 10)
Includes "East Side, West Side", "Talk and Coffee", "Seaman in French Grave", "Jim Reads the Papers", "Snow-ball, the Luxurious", "Bag Saves Man's Life", "Seamen Ride", "Music for Chapel", "A Grudging Bit of Praise", "Peter's Eyes", "They Recommend It", "Her Son", Photograph of Forty Mariners and Reproduction of New Flag, Official Emblem of the Seamens Church Institute of America.
The Lookout November 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 11)
Includes "Thanksgiving Comes", "Before They Sailed", "The Merchantmen", "Home Hour", "What San Francisco Does", "For Songs and Chords", "What Relief Really Means", "Our Own War-Ship", "Mrs. Baylies Honored' and "The Power of Example."
The Lookout December 1917 (Vol. 8 No. 12)
Includes "Dining Out", "Rest and Forgetting", "Gabriel, of the Sailing Ships", "The Insatiable Bastien", "A Present for Each Man", "The Curing of Hardy", "A Belgian Boy Wants Letters", "They Question Union" and "Green Bay and Holly."
The Lookout January 1918 (Vol. 10, No. 1 [Vol. 9 No. 1])
Includes "Christmas! Christmas! Trees, Gifts, Dinner" and "Institute War Events."
The Lookout 1918 February (Vol. 10, No. 2 [Vol. 9 No. 2])
Includes "Special Movie Evening" and "Public Lectures: Seamen's Church Institute."
Includes "Archbishop of York at Institute", "The Minturn Gift" and "Henry Lewis Morris."
Includes "The Rope with the Golden Strands", "What We Need" and "Seamen in the Army."
Includes "The Real Grievance" and "Our School on the Roof."
Includes "From Eight to Three at Home", "Lighthouse Tower Blue or Green?" and "Memorial Day."
Includes "Jock and Quirk or Not Alone in a Great City", "A Depleted Staff" and "Learning Navigation."
Includes "When the Mariner Plays", "Roosevelt in London" and "Seamen's Law Board."
The Lookout September 1918 (Vol. 9 No. 9)
Includes "Clothing a Crew", "Sailors' Day" and "Heroes' Day"
The Lookout October 1918 (Vol. 9 No. 10)
Includes "Three Apprentice Lads Solve the Great Riddle", "Navigation on the Roof", "Two Water-Front Tragedies" and "Twelve Lectures."
The Lookout November 1918 (Vol. 9 No. 11)
Includes "Sailors' Day" and "Gerard Beekman."
The Lookout December 1918 (Vol. 9 No. 12)
Includes "Home", "Knitting for Seamen" and "Mr. Baylies III."
The Lookout January 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 1)
Includes "The Best Christmas" and "Mr. Baylies Recovering."
The Lookout February 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 2)
Includes "The Happy Ending", "The Clinic" and "Navigation School Gift."
Includes "Log-book Stories" and "New Apprentice Room."
Includes "Evenings of a Week", "Dr. Mansfield in West" and "About the Lookout."
Includes "One Day", "Extending Libraries", "Bishop Greer" and "Mother's Day"
Includes "The Way of Mothers", "Dr. Mansfield Investigates Pacific Coast Work for Seamen", "North River Station" and "Bishop Greer."
Includes "A Little Brother to Noah" and "Tablet Unveiled."
Includes "The Arrival" and "Workers Scarce."
The Lookout September 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 9)
Includes "The Recent Strike" and "The Strange Land."
The Lookout October 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 10)
Includes "Insouciant About Money" and "Sailors Day November 9th."
The Lookout November 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 11)
Includes "His Reverences", "A Service Opportunity" and "National Organization."
The Lookout December 1919 (Vol. 10 No. 12)
Includes "Songs of South Street" by John Wayland, "Christmas Day", "The Detroit Exhibit", "The Big Brother" and "Sailors' Day."
The Lookout January 1920 (Vol. 11. No. 1)
Includes "Angelo" and "Cooperation in 1920."
The Lookout February 1920 (Vol. 11 No. 2)
Includes "Is This the Thanks?" and "Missing Seamen."
Includes "He Didn't Know Us" and "Seamen's Church Institute of Philadelphia."
Includes "I am the Lookout" and "Safeguarding American Seamen."
Includes "Those Magazines". The 1919 annual report was published in this issue of the Lookout, but is not included here. It is reproduced under the title "Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report 1919."
Includes "The Miraculous Escape: A Human Interest Story of the Perils of the Sea Exceeding the Wildest Imaginings of the Novelist."
Includes "Their Boy", "The Rev. Jimmy Legs" and "Sailors and Health."
The Lookout August 1920 (Vol. 11. No. 8)
Includes "A Fairy City", "Newport S. C. I.", "Our Post Office", "The House Mother" and "How Far Can You See?"
The Lookout September 1920 (Vol. 11 No. 9)
Includes "You'll Know", "How We Serve", "The Lawyer's Opportunity" and "Gambling on South Street."
The Lookout October 1920 (Vol. 11 No. 10)
Includes "Thought He Was Dead" and "Annual Sailors' Day."
The Lookout November 1920 (Vol. 11 No. 11)
Includes "The Man Behind This", "A Letter to the Board" and "Wives on Ships."
The Lookout December 1920 (Vol. 11 No. 12)
Includes "The North River Station", "Assistant to Dr. Mansfield", "Sailors' Day" and "Sailors' Day in Brooklyn."
The Lookout January 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 1)
Includes "Our Christmas", "North River Station", "Greetings from Other Institutes" and "Our Outside Contacts."
The Lookout February 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 2)
Includes "The Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, D. D." and "Relief Fund."
Includes "A Parting" and "Relief Needed". The 1920 annual report was published in this issue of the Lookout, but is not included here. It is reproduced under the title "Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report 1920."
Includes "Why the Sailor?", "Seventy-six Years of Service" and "In Memory."
Includes "Money for Safe Keeping", "Our Heritage" and "Our First Chaplain."
Includes "The Unknown Sailor", "New Orleans Next", "In Memory and in Recognition of the Merchant Seamen Who Made Victory Possible", "The Romance of Jeanette Park", "KDKF" and "First Aid for Seamen."
Includes "Wanted His Nose", "The Income Tax", "Letter to North River Station", "'KDKF'" and "Marie Louise Bennett Memorial."
Includes "Changed His Luck", "Libraries for Seamen", "In Memory and Recognition", "Marie Bennett Memorial" and "The National Organization Seamen's Church Institute of America"
The Lookout September 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 9)
Includes "Keep Smiling", "First Aid Book", "Five Years in San Francisco", "Jeanette Park" and "The National Organization Seamen's Church Institute of America."
The Lookout October 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 10)
Includes "The Unemployed Seamen", "Libraries for Seamen" and "The National Organization Seamen's Church Institute of America"
The Lookout November 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 11)
Includes "Why the Institute?" and "Welfare Headquarters for Stranded Merchant Seamen."
The Lookout December 1921 (Vol. 12 No. 12)
Includes "Sailors' Day", "The Reef" by Edith M. Thomas and "The Women's Auxiliary."
The Lookout January 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 1)
Includes "Flashes from the S. O. S. Letters" and "K. D. K. F."
The Lookout February 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 2)
Includes "Bread on the Water" and "The War Memorial."
Includes "Northern Adventure", "Philadelphia Progresses", "Los Angeles Institute" and "Jeanette Park."
Includes "Our Thanks" and "War Memorial". The 1921 annual report was published in this issue of the Lookout, but is not included here. It is reproduced under the title "Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report 1921."
Includes "Fifty Years a Saloon", "A Great Man" and "Employment."
Includes "Shall They Be Forgotten?", "The Unclaimed Dead"and "Mrs. Thomas Leaves Us."
Includes "The Brave Dead of the Merchant Marine", "Ignorance About Sailors" and "A Congregation Without a Creed."
Includes "The Memorial to the Memory of Merchant Seamen", "What We Do and Why" and "Nocturne" by Hugh Croll.
The Lookout September 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 9)
Includes "'Blow Upon My Garden'", "The War Memorial" and "The Institute in New Orleans."
The Lookout October 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 10)
Includes "The War Memorial", "What Fear Does", "At the General Convention" and "Death of Mr. Nicolls."
The Lookout November 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 11)
Includes "December 12", "North River Station Opened", "The Work at Port Arthur", "The War Memorial" and "Hailing Ports" by Thomas J. Murray.
The Lookout December 1922 (Vol. 13 No. 12)
Includes "History of Our Work for British Apprentice Lads in the Port of New York Since 1898" and "Youngsters of the Seven Seas" by Norman Duncan.
The Lookout January 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 1)
Includes "The Institute's Christmas", "A. M. M. L. A. Books for Marine Libraries", "Enforcing the Prohibition Law", "The War Memorial", "When the Doctor Calls by Radio" and "A Retracted Story and Its Significance."
The Lookout February 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 2)
Includes "Our President Entertains the Dean of Windsor", "Our Social Workers", "The Original Radio Outfit Which Sent Medical Advice to Ships" and an excerpt from a book entitled "A Scrap Log" by A. Foster Baynes.
Includes "War Memorial: A Mortgaged Gift", "Our President III", "Chaplain Harkness Resigns", "S. C. I. A." and "L'Envoi" by Rudyard Kipling.
Includes "The Revolution of Beds: A Great Social Change on the Waterfront in Which Housing Played a Lead Role", "Death Takes Several Friends" and "Mr. Robinson Resigns."
Includes "Up an African River", "North River Station" and "Radio Treatments at Sea: Shipping Board Doctor Prescribes for Three on One Voyage."
Includes "Hospital Cooperation", "Radio Ends Arctic Solitude", "Found in 15 Minutes", "Summer Amuseuments" and "The National Work."
Includes "One Thousand New Readers", "The Memorial Stage Completed", "The Comfort Station", "My Hotel in Mid-Atlantic" by Joseph Conrad and "Proposed Institute Annex Building Fund."
The Lookout September 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 9)
Includes "The Reconstructed Basement", "Opening Jail Doors", "The Apprentice Work", "The Baggage Room" and "The National Organization - San Pedro Institute Obtains New Building."
The Lookout October 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 10)
Includes "The Lobby Floor", "The Discretionary Fund" and "The Institute at Houston."
The Lookout November 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 11)
Includes "Visitors from England" and "The Discretionary Fund."
The Lookout December 1923 (Vol. 14 No. 12)
The Lookout January 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 1)
Includes "No Room for Them in the Inn", "Seamen's Compensation" and "Canon Brady."
The Lookout February 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 2)
Includes "A Cross" and "Changes in South Street."
Includes "The Volunteers", "The Social Service Fellowship" and "The National Work."
Includes Eightieth Anniversary Service with Addresses by Edmund L. Baylies, Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield and Rev. Ernest M. Stires.
Includes "The Burke Foundation", "The Institute at Work" and "Flowers for Mother". The 1923 annual report was published in this issue of the Lookout, but is not included here. It is reproduced under the title "Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report 1923."
Includes "Mother's Day", "Shipwrecked", "The Institute at Work" and "Philadelphia's New Institute."
Includes "Cable from Our President", "Typical Significant Major Community Services Rendered Since the Present Institute Was Opened, January 1st, 1914 to January 1st, 1924", "Patterson's Sea Paintings", "Our Institute at Work" and "The National Work."
Includes "Concerning the New Building" and "The Seamen Problem the Same Everywhere."
The Lookout September 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 9)
Includes "Our Building Campaign Gets Publicity: The Marine Journal in the August Issue Gave the Following Account of Our Work and Our Need", "As Others See Us" and "Need of New Building as Expressed by Our House Mother."
The Lookout October 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 10)
Includes Official Statement from the Building Committee.
The Lookout November 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 11)
Includes Official Statement from the Building Committee and "Sailors' Day Service."
The Lookout December 1924 (Vol. 15 No. 12)
Includes Official Statement from the Building Committee and Message from President Calvin Coolidge.
The Lookout January 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 1)
Includes "Dr. Mansfield Ill", "A. M. M. L. A. Luncheon", "What Price Charity?" and "Church Co-operation."
The Lookout February 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 2)
Includes "Tearing Down the Old Buildings" and "Comfort Station Opened."
Includes "The Editor Chagrined", "Our Proud Cat" and "New York's Sharp Need of a Greater Marine Hospital."
Includes "April Anniversary" and "Flowers Incognito."
Includes "Translating the Annual Report", "The President", "The Superintendent" and "A New Scene for an Old Setting."
Includes "A Stranger's Strange Story", "A Tribute to Seamen", "What the Produce Exchange Thinks of the Work of the Institute", "The Modern Crusaders" and "'The South Street Follies.'"
Includes "25 South Street" by Capt. Felix Riesenberg, "A Stranger's Strange Story [Part 2]", an excerpt from the poem "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea" by Walt Whitman and an excerpt from the poem "Sea Gypsy" by Richard Hovey.
Includes "Joseph Conrad", "The Seamen's Church Institute", "Buried Treasure", "Chamber of Commerce Endorses Institute", "A Stranger's Strange Story [Part 3]", "The U. S. Merchant Marine Cadets" and "For the Medical Care of Seamen."
The Lookout September 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 9)
Includes "A Stranger's Strange Story [Part 4]", "Sea Cure" by Barbara Young, "Realization" by Ira South and "The Last Ship" by Glenn Ward Dresbach.
The Lookout October 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 10)
Includes Invitation to Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony for Annex, "Treasure Trove from the River Mud" by Reginald Pelham Bolton and "A Modern Noah."
The Lookout November 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 11)
The Cornerstone-Laying Ceremony Held on Thursday, Nov. 5, 1925 for the Annex is Fully Reproduced in This Issue.
The Lookout December 1925 (Vol. 16 No. 12)
Includes "Men Who Live By Stars", "The Building Committee at Work" and "A Stranger's Strange Story [Part 5]."
The Lookout January 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 1)
Includes "1926", "A.M.M.L.A." and "In the Christmas Mail"
The Lookout February 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 2)
Includes "Women's Committee Organizes", "Central Council Meets", "Hero Fund" and "General George Uhler."
Includes "The Building Fund Campaign: New York Business Leader Chosen as Chairman", "Hero Fund Distributed", "When Neptune Frowns: Survivors" and "Thirty Years: The Superintendent Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield."
Includes "The Predicament" and "For Youth."
ncludes "The Protecting Wall", "The Substitute Mother of the Apprentices' Room", "Police Protection for the Sailor", "Mrs. Roper's Newest Feathers" and "The Duty of the Community to Jack a'Shore (A Judicial Opinion)."
Includes "In the Navigation School". The 1925 annual report is included in this issue of The Lookout, but it is not reproduced here. It can be found under the title "Seamen's Church Institute of New York - Annual Report 1925."
Includes "S. C. I. Associations: Their Work and Opportunity to Serve", "Naturalization and the Seaman", "Another Seaman to the Rescue", "Sailors Do Penance with Little Ships" by Robert M. Coates and "Her Majesty, the Cat."
Includes "Dead at Their Posts", "'Old Ironsides' Trophy for Institute", "Feeding the Two Thousand", "Commander Byrd's Seamanship", "The Rotor Ship" and "The Old Ship Mast" by Louise Driscoll.
The Lookout September 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 9)
Includes "Under the Stars and Stripes", "Home? This is My Home", "Jack Takes Pen in Hand", "Sailormen's Mail", "Kaufman from Latvia", "What Sailormen Read" and "The Breezy Bay" by Martin Gale.
The Lookout October 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 10)
Includes "The Institute Appeals" by John E. Berwind, "A $250,000 Unconditional Gift", "When Winter Comes" by Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield, "For Conrad's Memory", "The Landsman's Debt" by Joseph P. Day, "After Seventy-Seven Years" and "Aid the Seaman" by Capt. George Fried.
The Lookout November 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 11)
Includes "The Superintendent" by Edmund L. Baylies, "Beds" by John E. Berwind, "Another Unconditional Gift", "Tribute to the Institute" by Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, "Times Have Changed" by John Masefield, "On the River", "The Salvation Army", "The Conrad Memorial Meeting", "The Chapel Fund" by Rev. William T. Crocker, "Thoughts on Joseph Conrad" by Ford M. Ford and "Changes of the Sea".
The Lookout December 1926 (Vol. 17 No. 12)
Includes "The Institute's Case" by Edmund L. Baylies, "The Seamen's Mother", "Ten Typical Cases", "An Appeal to Business Men" by John E. Berwind, "Sailors Are Still Fleeced" and an editorial from The New York Times.
The Lookout January 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 1)
Includes "Sea Faces", "A Romance of the Sea", "Tomorrow's Seamen", "Queen Hannah" and "From One Who Knows."
The Lookout February 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 2)
Includes "The Chamber of Commerce and the Seamen's Institute", "With the Associations" by Clara M. Dibble, "An Old-time Payday" and "Our First-Aid Manual."
Includes "Red Letter Days", "Sir Galahad Memorial", "Hannah's New Friends", "South Street" by Burke Boyce, "Victims of Winter Seas", "Rooms for Sale", "Cadets for the Merchant Marine", "Conrad on Seamanhood", "Old Ironsides Again" and "With the Associations."
Includes "Seaward and Skyward", "Lean Summer Months", "Hannah & Son, Inc.", "About Dr. Mansfield" and "Seamen's Church Institute of America."
Includes "Bowling Alleys Wanted", "A True Sailorman", "Our Old Curiosity Shop", "Captain Seeley", "Ship Ahoy!" and "Sir Galahad Dedication."
Includes "Red Letter Days", "Sailors and Their Dollars", "Charles Thomas", "In the Fo' c' stle", "S. C. I. Associations" by Clara M. Dibble and "S. C. I. of New Orleans."
Includes "Progress in the Annex", "Training Cadets", "The Modern Sailor", "Jobs for Sailors" and "Our Portrait Gallery."
The Lookout September 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 9)
Includes "The Old Atlantic's Bell", "A Sailor's Near-Revolution" by Irwin R. Stone, "The Conrad Prow" and "Seamen's Church Institute of Manila."
The Lookout October 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 10)
Includes "The Third Annual Benefit of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York", "Jack Tar's Baggage", "Fort Stanton, New Mexico", and review of the book "Eight Bells" by Capt. Frank Waters.
The Lookout November 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 11)
Includes "Six Sailormen Missing" and "Annual Sailors' Day."
The Lookout December 1927 (Vol. 18 No. 12)
Includes "An S. C. I. Outpost", "Annual Sailor Day" and "The Institute Forum."
The Lookout January 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 1)
Includes "Sailors, Three Cents Apiece!" and "The Sons of the Sea" by Marion L. Jackson.
The Lookout February 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 2)
Includes "Dr. Mansfield's Appeal", "Dr. Mansfield's Thirty-Second Year", "Are Sailors Grateful?" and "Radio Life-Saving."
Includes "Our Relief Problem", Review of the Book "John Paul Jones - Man of Action" by Phillips Russell, "The Beginning of the Last Chapter", "James Wells Barber" and "Inactive Accounts of New York Banks" by Frederick D. Robbins.
Includes "Spring Openings", "The Odyssey of Hubert" and "The Freighter" by E. Leslie Spaulding.
Includes "Your Red Letter Day", "A Tribute to Mr. Baylies", "All Aboard for the South Pole!", "The New Apprentice Room", "Central Council Benefit" and "Cats Again."
Includes "Statistics Brought Home", "South Pole Next Stop!", "Another Institute Outpost" and "Wanderlust" by Richard Hovey.
Includes "When Winter Comes to an Old Sea Captain", "Sodas for Sailors", "Progress on the Annex" and "Seasick Seamen."
The Lookout September 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 9)
Includes "The Institute's 'Byrd' Men", "An Iron Man for a Wooden Ship" and "A Clerical Criticism."
The Lookout October 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 10)
Includes "To Our Knitters", "Institute Neighbors", "Lifeboats and Lifeboat Crews" by Harry Russell and "A Post Office with a Soul."
The Lookout November 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 11)
Includes "Your Red Letter Day", "Dr. Mansfield", "Benefit Plans Changed" and "A Sailor Afield."
The Lookout December 1928 (Vol. 19 No. 12)
Includes "Christmas at the Institute", "Christmas Ships" by Seabury Lawrence and "Our Sailors Eat Again."
The Lookout January 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 1)
Includes "Canada Dry", "From Two Consuls", "The Unknown Sailor" and "Holidays at the Institute."
The Lookout February 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 2)
Includes "Cooking in the Clouds", "Making Lifeboat Men" and "Better Merchant Sailors."
Includes "Dr. Mansfield", "New Auditorium Launched", "Religious Services Again" and "Cats Know Most Everything."
Includes "Killer Whales in the Antarctic", "Religious and Social Service Department", "Fifth Annual Benefit of the Central Council", "Our Unique Entrance", "Fog Offshore" by Arthur Wallace Peach and "The Old Salt to the New" by Joseph Fulling Fishman.
Includes "Red", "Even a Wreck Can't Part a Sailor and His Pet", "The New Bowling Alleys", "A Tribute to Our Knitters", "A Tale of Tattooing", "Ho Sing-Ho for a Sailor" by Bertrand L. Shurtleff and "Our New Laundry."
Includes "A Barge Captain's Romance", "Jeanette Park", "Seafaring as a Career" and "A Night in Matadi" by Jack Free.
Includes "Mr. Rolling Stone" and "The Good Ship 'Wellington.'"
The Lookout September 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 9)
Includes "Honor", "Guests of the Cannibals" and "Lost and Found."
The Lookout October 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 10)
Includes "Jack Tar to the Rescue!", "S. C. I. Associations" and "An Institute Neighbor."
The Lookout November 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 11)
Includes a Tribute from John Masefield, "The Log of the El Dorado" [Part 1] by Capt. N. P. Benson and "When Death Comes to a Sailor."
The Lookout December 1929 (Vol. 20 No. 12)
Includes "Chapel Memorials", "A Sailor Sculptor", "Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "Captain Benson's Own Story" [Part 2].
The Lookout January 1930 (Vol. 21 No. 1)
Includes "When Winter Reigns", "An Institute Anniversary", "'The Wanderer'" and "Wrecks of the Sea."
Includes "Breast Hooks and Anchors", "Emergency Glasses", "The Institute's Oldest Contributor" and "The Floating Church of Our Saviour for Seamen in the Port of New York."
Includes "Taking the Census", "Two Innocents Abroad", "Long Live Our Knitters" and "The Old Ship Builders of New York."
Includes "New Chapel of Our Saviour Dedication Service May 22, 1930", "A Nautical Poet Laureate", "Bozo the Trouble Magnet" and "The Old Ship-Yards of New York Part II: The Apprentices."
Includes "The Youngest War Hero" and "The Old Ship-Yards of New York Part III."
Includes "Memories", "A Slop Chest Souvenir", "Reminder of the Past", "Common Sailors" and "Shanghaied."
The Lookout September 1930 (Vol. 21 No. 9)
Includes an Excerpt from the Book "Thirty Fathoms Deep" by Edward Ellsberg, "A Shepherd of the Sea" by Louis Alfred Banks, "A Sailor's Tribute", "Merchantmen" by C. Fox Smith, "The Institute to the Rescue", "Yarns of an Old Shellback" by Capt. J. L. Vivian Millett and "Glimpses of Sailors and Their Pets."
The Lookout October 1930 (Vol. 21 No. 10)
Includes "A World-Famous Cook", "S. C. I. Associations", "Lookouts" by Charles Robert Patterson, "Men as Trees Walking" by John H. Finley, "The Unemployment Crisis" and "A Nightmare Voyage Part I" by Chandos St. John Brenon.
The Lookout November 1930 (Vol. 21 No 11)
Includes "Sound Pictures for Seamen", "An Old Salt'sTribute", "A Nightmare Voyage Part II" by Chandos St. John Brenon and "The Unemployment Crisis."
The Lookout December 1930 (Vol. 21 No. 12)
Includes "Sir Galahad", "Dr. Mansfield's Birthday Wish", "A Consular Dean", "The Wreck of the Jason", "Comments on the Institute from the Public Press" and "A Nightmare Voyage Part III" by Chandos St. John Brenon.
The Lookout January 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 1)
Includes "Dr. Mansfield's 35th Anniversary", "Ship Knowledge Course", "A Typical Day in Our Relief Department" and "When a Sailor Misses His Boat."
The Lookout February 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 2)
Includes "Our Place in a Changing Skyline", "A Sea Romance" and "A Marine Hero."
Includes "A Chaplain Considers the Chapel" by Mark Brusstar, "Humanizing Our Lobby", "A Quarter Mile Dive Beneath the Sea" and "Man's Conquest of the Atlantic Part I."
Includes "Nineteen Years After", "The Cat That Charmed a Captain", "'Round Cape Horn", "To Honor a Gallant Hero" and "Man's Conquest of the Atlantic - Part II."
Includes "Sing Ho for Our Polo Team!", "A Million Miles of Seafaring", "The Oldest Ship Afloat: 'Success'" and "Father Neptune's Camera Man."
Includes "A Typical Day in Our Superintendent's Office" and "The Sea Still Breeds Its Poets."
Includes "Food - Afloat and Ashore", "Mother Roper - 'Sherlock Holmes'" and "The Romance of a Freighter."
The Lookout September 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 9)
Includes "Young America Goes Adventuring", "Dentistry for Sailors" and "Superstitions of the Sea Really Gone?"
The Lookout October 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 10)
Includes "Radio to the Rescue", "An Old-Time Sailorman" and "From Our Dental Clinic Log."
The Lookout November 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 11)
Includes "For the Sailors" by Charles S. Haight, "An Institute Romance" and "A Sailor Boy Makes Good Ashore."
The Lookout December 1931 (Vol. 22 No. 12)
Includes "An Eye Clinic for Sailors", "Justice for a Sailorboy" and "Burial at Sea" by Evan H. Winfield.
The Lookout January 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 1)
Includes "Christmas in Sailor Town", "'Our Merchant Marine'", "Ten-Cent Meals" and "Religion on the Water Front."
The Lookout February 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 2)
Includes "The History of the Floating Churches", "A Deep Sea Chest: Excerpts from a Radio Speech by Dr. C. H. Lavinder, U. S. Public Health Service on Tuesday, December 1st, 1931 over Station WJZ, 2:30 P. M." and "Assocations' Get-Together."
Includes "The S. C. I. Cross" by Caroline B. Lyman, "A Tribute to Mr. Edmund Lincoln Baylies", "Two Sea Disasters", "The Man at the Wheel Makes His Appeal!", "Fate" by Nicol Bissell and "The Famous Blizzard of 1888."
Includes "Signs of Spring", "Storm at Sea" by J. Campbell Haywood, "25 South Street" by John Cabbage and an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning.
Includes "Memorial Day" by Caroline B. Lyman, "Seamen's Memorial Bandstand", "Where Sailors Lie Buried", an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning and "Sailor Town" by C. Fox Smith.
Includes "Etera, Child of Nature", "'Bedtimers'", "'Round the World in ? Days", "'The Sea Devil' Visits the Institute" and an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning.
The Lookout September 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 8)
Includes "A Marine Artist's Philosophy" by Gordon Grant, "When a Sailor Seeks Assistance", "An 'Old Salt' Retires" and an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning.
The Lookout October 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 9)
Includes "An Interesting Evening at the Theatre", "What About Seamen's Families?", "Concerning Seamen's Riots in New York" by Rev. Harrison Rockwell and "Pitfalls for the Sailor", an excerpt from the book "The Sea Devil" by Felix Count Luckner.
The Lookout November 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 10)
Includes "Ship Ahoy!", "Auto Accidents", "A Wandering Sailor Poet" and an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning.
The Lookout December 1932 (Vol. 23 No. 11)
Includes "Free Haircuts for Sailors", "Life on a Barge" and an excerpt from the book "Voyages Around the World" by Capt. Edmund Fanning.
The Lookout January 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 1)
Includes "A Pleasure Trip Around Cape Horn", "Our Volunteers" and "A Hero of the Sea" by James Edmund Duffy.
The Lookout February 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 2)
Includes "A Poet Comes to 25 South Street", "A Sailorman for a Sailor's Cause", "Able Seaman Johnston" by John McClain and "Heroism at Sea."
Includes "Midnight Sailing", "A Lost Art", "A Health Center for Seafarers", "Award of Valor" and "Faith, Conqueror of Storms" by Charles B. Karoly.
Includes Errata Note, "Sea Chanties Being Revived" and "A Sailor's Funeral" by Joseph Mitchell.
The Lookout January 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 1)
Includes "Books for Conrad Memorial Library", an Excerpt from the Book "The Bird of Dawning" by John Masefield, "Ships in Bottles" and "South of Celebes" by George L. O'Neill.
The Lookout February 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 2)
Includes "Dr. Mansfield's Double Anniversary", "The Cruise of the 'Seth Parker'", "Sailors' Hymns", "A Sailor's Altar" by George G. Elvin, "Jeanette Park", "Capt. Edmund Fanning" and a Supplement Announcing the Death of Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield.
Includes "Our Ninetieth Anniversary", "Port of Missing Men" and "Motorboat Show."
Includes "Opening of Conrad Memorial Library" by Harry Hansen, "Carrying on the Mansfield 'Tradition'" and "Port of Missing Men."
Includes "The Institute's First Chaplain", "Sea Dogs" by John McClain and "Aftermath for a Marine Hero."
The Lookout September 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 8)
Includes "A Modern Treasure Cave", "Yarns of an Old Salt" and "Walter Wood Parsons."
The Lookout October 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 9)
Includes "The Institute's New Superintendent", "Stories of the Morro Castle" and "In Memory of Tuttles."
The Lookout November 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 10)
Includes "Adventuresome Boys", "Welcome to Our New Superintendent" and "Alas - For Romance!" by Lt. Cmdr. A. H. Bateman.
The Lookout December 1934 (Vol. 25 No. 11)
Includes "Christmas at Sea", "What Seafarers Read", "The Dental Clinic Has a Birthday" and "Mysteries of the Sea: No. 1 - The Flying Dutchman."
Includes "The House of a Thousand Memorials", "Our Sir Galahad Mystery" and "All About Astrolabes."
The Lookout September 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 8)
Includes "A Tradition of the Sea", "Idle Tars Have Depression Tied Up in Sailor's Knot" by Norman Klein, "Two Seamen Artists", "Our Sailor President" and "The Three Musketeers of the French Line" by John M'Clain.
The Lookout October 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 9)
Includes "Let's Go to the Movies!", "Colonel Arthur Frederic Schermerhorn", "A Clergyman's Impressions of the Institute" by Rev. Lester Leake Riley and "Danish Skipper to Round Horn in Canoe."
The Lookout November 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 10)
Includes "Mother Roper Has a Birthday", "Victory for an American Crew" and "'Swallowing the Anchor.'"
The Lookout December 1933 (Vol. 24 No. 11)
Includes "Boss of the Christmas Ship" by Capt. J. G. Bisset, "Letters from Sailors", "Through Seafarers' Eyes" and an excerpt from the book "Bowspirit Ashore" by Alexander H. Bone.
The Lookout January 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 1)
Includes "Standards and Traditions of the Merchant Marine", "Cats Again", "Christmas at the Institute", "From the Fo'c'sle to the Bridge" and "Congratulations, Captain Fried!"
The Lookout February 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 2)
Includes "Brotherhood of the Sea", "Recreation for Job-Hunters", "Standards and Traditions of the Merchant Marine" [Part 2], "The Good Ship 'Joseph Conrad'" and "Strange Requests."
Includes "Men Against the Sea", "Memorial Services for Dr. Mansfield", "Motorboat Show" and "Figurehead Lore."
Includes "Fogbound", "Tattoo", "Time Ball", "A Tribute to a Great Leader and Constant Friend of Seamen: The Rev. A. R. Mansfield, D. D." and "Figurehead Lore" [Part 2].
Includes "Hospitality for Youthful Seafarers", "The Man Who 'Came Back'" by William Engle, "Sailors' Hobbies", "Our Superintendent Addresses the Diocesan Convention" and "Conrad's 'Otago.'"
Includes "Twice a Hero", "To Welcome the S. S. Normandie", "Conference in Montreal", "An Earthquake Predictor" by Glenn Perry and "Seamen Inventors."
Includes "South Street Sketches", "Honoring a Life-Long Career", "46 Days Adrift", "Our Seamen Pay Their Debts", "The Origin of Shanghaiing" and "Glossary of Nautical Terms or The Seaman's Complaint" by George Franklin.
The Lookout September 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 9)
Includes "The Haunted Ship" by Capt. Robert Huntington, "A Seaman's Description of the Silver Jubilee" by Steve Harvey, "News of the 'Joseph Conrad'" and "A Seaman's Impressions of '25 South Street'" by Theodore Pollock.
The Lookout October 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 10)
Includes "Sterling Seamanship", "Triumph for American Crews", "Above the Crowd" by Stookie Allen, "'For Their Work Continueth'" and "Ports of Missing Men"
The Lookout November 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 11)
Includes "Sailors' Day", "Aboard the 'Colleen'", "About Joseph Conrad" and "One Year on New York's Waterfront" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley.
The Lookout December 1935 (Vol. 26 No. 12)
Includes "Christmas Customs Afloat and Ashore", "Thanksgiving Day at the Institute", "The Place of a Chapel in the Institute" by Rev. David McDonald and "Twenty-Five Years Entertaining Sailormen."
The Lookout January 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 1)
Includes "Christmas at the Institute" by Henry William Fishburn, "Elegy for a Dying Tongue" by C. B. W. Richardson, "The Odyssey of an 18 Year Old Boy", "Sails" by Hugh Malcolm McCormick and "Seamen Have Changed" by Frank A. Heagney.
The Lookout February 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 2)
Includes "When Winter Comes", "Why Ships Are Christened", "The Sea Witch and the Miles Barton", "River of Death" by Floyd Gibbons and "Lost and Found."
Includes "Ships That Disappear", "A Skipper Chases His Ship", "A Self-Made Marine Artist", "'Social Service' to the Rescue" and "On the Sun Deck" by Robert Wilder.
Includes "Hospitality for Shipwrecked Crews", "Extending Our Clinic Facilities" and "The Associations Carry On."
Includes "Shipmodeling a Popular Hobby", "Haven for Ancient Mariners", "To Welcome the R.M.S. 'Queen Mary'", "India House" and "Christian Neighboring on the Waterfront" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley.
Includes "John Wolf Ambrose", "Andrew Winter: Artist and Seaman", "Drama Aboard the Theoline", "On the Trail of Our 'Sir Galahad' Mystery" and "A Class in Ship Terminology."
Includes "Opening of Nautical Museum", "How Waterfront Streets Got Their Names", "The Blue Anchor Society", "Heat Wave" and "Two Unusual Women."
The Lookout September 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 9)
Includes "Famous Ships' Bells", "More Books for the Conrad Library" by Anne Conrow, "Why They Follow the Sea", "The Disaster to the Great Eastern", "The Corinthians: Amateur Sailors" and "Messages in Bottles."
The Lookout October 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 10)
Includes "Our Superintendent has an Anniversary", "Names of Ships" by Tom Gullette, "Parrot Patter" by Jack Stinnett and "Ships on Postage Stamps."
The Lookout November 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 11)
Includes "All Hands Saved", "Illustrated Lesson on Ships - 1" by Gault Macgowan, "Figurehead Carving Contest", "Born and Reared at Sea" and an Inset Explaining SCI's Neutrality During the Marine Labor Controversy.
The Lookout December 1936 (Vol. 27 No. 12)
Includes "Christmas - Past and Present", "A Globe-Girdling Cat", "Mother Roper on the Radio", "Barge Colony Hibernates" and "Marine Christmas Gifts."
Includes "In Memoriam... Archibald Romaine Mansfield."
The Lookout January 1937 (Vol. 28 No. 1)
The Lookout February 1937 (Vol. 28 No. 2)
Includes "Sentinels of the Sea" and "A Visitor to Pitcairn Island."
Includes "Flood Rescuers", "Monuments in Battery Park and South Street", "Marine Museum", "Two Leaders", "Safer Lifeboats" by William McFee and "Telling Time at Sea."
Includes "Seagoing Horses and Elephants", "Burial at Sea", "The Cruise of the Conrad", "Mark Twain of the Waterfront" by Victor Weingarten and "25 South Street" by Capt. Felix Riesenberg.
Includes "Log of a Ship Visitor" by Philip Warner, "News from the 'Sea Devil'", "Security for Seamen's Children", "The New York Whitehall Boat" and "Eleventh Floor Renovations."
Includes "Should Mothers Send Their Sons to Sea?" by Capt. Felix Riesenberg, "Hospitality for Shipwrecked Crews", "Training Boys for Seafaring Careers", "Blood Transfusions", "A Year-Round Welcome to Seafarers" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley, "The Seven Seas" and "Rope as a Symbol."
Includes "Rescued Crew of Burning Freighter", "The Institute's Engineer", "A Sailor's Life as the Sailor Sees It", "Mrs. Roper has an Anniversary" and "Marconi's Radio a Big Factor in Sea Safety."
The Lookout September 1937 (Vol. 28 No. 9)
Includes "The Port of the 'Otago'" by Dixie Tighe, "Ship Models" by Hendrik Willem van Loon, "From Unclaimed Baggage" by John McClain, "The Waterfront" by Guy Emery Shipler, "Hurricanes" by Capt. Felix Riesenberg, "A Plea for Sea Training in Sail" by Capt. Alan J. Villiers and "Man Overboard" by Robert Wilder.
The Lookout October 1937 (Vol. 28 No. 10)
Includes "Rebuilding of Crew Quarters" by Capt. Felix Riesenberg, "A Visit to the 'Lingard'" and "Ship Sketches."
The Lookout December 1937 (Vol. 28 No. 12)
Includes "What 48 Years Among Seamen Have Taught Me" by Janet L. Roper, "The Meaning of Thanksgiving" by John H. Finley and "The Captain and Crew of the 'Mayflower'" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley.
The Lookout January 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 1)
Includes "Sea Captains' Hobbies", "Christmas at 25 South Street", and "Life Aboard a Modern Tanker"
The Lookout February 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 2)
Includes "Some Thoughts on the American Merchant Marine" by William McFee, "Motor Boat Show", and "'Adopt-A-Ship' Plan"
Includes an excerpt from the radio broadcast "Let's Visit - 25 South Street" with announcers Dave Driscoll and Jerry Danzig, "Burial at Sea", "Charles Sherman Haight", "Fifty Years of Service to Seamen" and "First Trip" by Cadet Peter John Pugh, Jr
Includes "The Conrad Library: Some Impressions" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "Shipwreck Charlie" and "Welcoming Apprentices and Cadets" by Edith Baxter
Includes "Portrait of Dr. Mansfield Unveiled", "Welcome to the S. S. Nieuw Amsterdam", "Ship Photograph Contest", "Superintendent's Address at Diocesan Convention" and "Bowling for Seafarers"
Includes "Henry Hudson: Navigator" and "Seafaring as a Career" by O. C. Frey
The Lookout September 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 9)
Includes "Hail, 'Tusitala!'", "Icebergs", "Mystery of Abandoned Vessels" and "Steamship 'Labrador' Reminiscences"
The Lookout October 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 10)
Includes "A Photographic Story of a Storm at Sea (on board the S. S. Orizaba)" and "Ships' Figurehead Yarns"
The Lookout November 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 11)
Includes excerpts from "It Can Be Done", a national radio broadcast from Sep. 21, 1938, with Janet L. Roper, "Stowaway Goes to School" and "Daughters of Seamen Become Girl Scout Mariners"
The Lookout December 1938 (Vol. 29 No. 12)
Includes "A Christmas Memory" by Seaman Peter Staboe, "Christmas at Sea" by Dwight Long, "Seven Seas on a Shoestring", "Thanksgiving Day at 25 South Street", "Why I Go to Sea - In Fifty Words" and "Frank T. Warburton"
The Lookout January 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 1)
Includes "Eight Men Battle Wild Seas, Save 18 on Doomed Tanker" by Asa Bordages, "Uncles Sam's School for Seamen" by Marjorie D. Candee, "A Young Marine Artist", "Christmas for 1,000 at Seamen's Institute" by Sally MacDougal and "Why I Go to Sea"
The Lookout February 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 2)
Mariners contributed all articles, stories, and poems in this issue, including "The 'Hurricane' Smacks a Reef" by Gerry Mefferd, "The Blocking of Zeebrugge" by Charles Jackson, "The Most Interesting Experience of My Sea Career" by Clifford H. Galloway and "Tragedy Aboard the 'Bluebell'" by Christian Beck
Includes "Portrait of Edmund L. Baylies Unveiled", "Minnie, the Ship's Cat" by Carla Dietz, "Shipboard Visiting", "Awarded for Rescue at Sea" and "A Saga of Modern Whaling"
Includes "Some Thoughts for Memorial Day", "The S. O. S. Crew", "A Seaman's Experience" by Frank Cosgrove, "The Ship That Became a Municipal Power Plant" and "Institute Sends Chaplains on S. S. Statendam"
Includes a transcript of the program "Salt of the Earth" in honor of Janet L. Roper's 50 years of service to SCI, "Conrad Library's Fifth Birthday" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "The Rev. William J. Crocker", "A Charted Course", address of Rev. Harold H. Kelley to the Convention of the Diocese of New York and "Nautical Cat Tales"
Includes "Captain Huntington Honored", "Note for World Fair Visitors", "A Cruise on the Joseph Conrad" by Harry J. Pearson and "How the American Shipbuilding Industry Contributes to the Prosperity of the United States"
Includes "Sailing Ships in the News", "The New Mauretania" by Cadet Vincent La Parle, "Why I Chase the Sea as a Career" by Donald Snyder, "A Strange Story" by Capt. Peter Staboe and "A 'Cookie' Goes to Sea" by Charles Eichberg
The Lookout September 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 9)
Includes "Lighthouses: Mariners' Friends", "Tattooing a Lost 'Art'", "Seamen Artists", "The Clipper Ship 'Hornet'" and "Maritime Miscellany: Why Ships Are 'Christened'"
The Lookout October 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 10)
Includes "Hospitality for Torpedoed Crews", "Our Superintendent's Fifth Anniversary at the Institute", "The New United States Liner 'America'" by H. L. Seward, "Awards for Gallantry at Sea", "Mrs. Roper on the Radio", "Jeanette Park Remodelled" and "Man Overboard" by Robert Wilder
The Lookout November 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 11)
Includes "Hospitality for Torpedoed Crews", "Launch Out Into the Deep" by Rev. G. Warfield Hobbs, "Group Exhibition of Marine Paintings at S. C. I." and "Sailing Ships in the News"
The Lookout December 1939 (Vol. 30 No. 12)
Includes "Christmas Afloat and Ashore", "More Cat Tales", "The First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic", "Conrad Library in a New Venture" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "Thanksgiving Day", "Captain Felix Riesenberg" and "A Radio Interview"
The Lookout January 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 1)
Includse "Night Life at the Institute", "Wooden Ships Again" by Ralph W. Barnes, "Merchant Ship Officers Start Naval Training" and "'Tusitala' to Sail Again"
The Lookout February 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 2)
Includes "When Seafarers Eat", "Post Office of the Seven Seas", "Motorboat Show", "Shipwrecked Crew", "Seamen as Parents" by Elizabeth La Lines and "City of Flint"
Includes "Knots in Business and Pleasure", "Slop Chest Tales", "Seamen in Hospitals" by Rev. David McDonald and "Tale of the Columbine" by Capt. A. Halcrow
Includes "Survivors of Storm and Torpedo", "Welcome to the 'Queen Elizabeth'", "Farewell to the 'Queen Mary' and 'Mauretania'", "Anchors Aweigh", "John H. Finley", "Visitors to the World's Fair" and "Conrad Library News" by librarian Anne W. Conrow
Includes "Shipwrecked Crew Welcome", "The Tusitala Sails Again", "Careers of Two Sea Captains", excerpts from radio broadcast "Echoes of New York" with Janet L. Roper, "Nautical Bridge Party" and "Two Contrasting Views of Jeanette Park and Coenties Slip"
Includes "Seahorses Spell Tugs" and "Tugs" by Meyer Berger
Includes "An Incident of the Last War" by Capt. Peter R. Staboe, "A Seaman's Letter", "Sailing" by G. P. Hammond, "Escape from Davy Jones" by George W. Bill and "The Other Side of the Story" by Carl Jakobsen
The Lookout September 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 9)
Includes "Heroic Deeds When Ships Go Down", "Clipper Ship Hornet" by Charles Parmenter, "Sailing Cards of Clipper Ships", "I Remember" by Capt. Victor Slocum and "The Story of the James Condie" by Robert Squire Alexander
The Lookout October 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 10)
Includes "Hail S. S. America!", "The Long Voyage Home", "Dramatic Days at Dunkirk", "British Child Refugees" and "Nautical Terms in Common Usage"
The Lookout November 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 11)
Includes "Saved from Davey Jones' Locker", "Children at 25 South Street", "Dogs of War are not Metaphor; Many go to Sea with Trawlers", "Discovery of a Figurehead", "Ill-Fated Ships Named Atlantic" and "I Remember" by Gordon Grant
The Lookout December 1940 (Vol. 31 No. 12)
Includes "Home for Netherland Seamen at 25 South Street", "Christmas at Sea - Now and Long Ago", "A Unique Experience on Christmas Night, 1923", "Suicide Ship", "War Experiences of Two British Apprentices", "70 Days in Open Boat", "Floating Weather Bureaus" and "Thanksgiving Day at 25 South Street"
The Lookout January 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 1)
Includes "A Princess Visits the Institute", "Marine Paintings in Recent Exhibitions", "Bishop Blesses Liner, Sets Precedent at Launching", "Western Prince" and "Christmas at 25 South Street"
The Lookout February 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 2)
Includes "Salute to Sailor Town" by C. Fox Smith, "Adventures of the 'Jean Jadot'" by Kermit W. Salyer, "Crew Saves Blazing Ship", "Heroism During Attack on Liner", "Cargo Ship Fought Air Raid and Fire", "A Skipper in Difficulty" by Frank Reil, "The Army Comes to 25 South Street", "War Experiences of an American Seaman", "Motorboat Show" and "Seamen's Art Show" by Frank Reil
Includes "Youth Against the Sea" by Franklin Remington, "Roy Widdicombe Visits 25 South Street" and "The Story of the Sextant"
Includes "British Merchant Navy Club", "Conrad Library 1940 Report" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "Reading in the Nineties" by Capt. Harry Garfield, "Reading in 1940" by Kermit Salyer, "Launching the Rio de la Plata" and "Home for Belgian Seamen"
Includes "Buy Ships-in-Bottles", "News of Figureheads", "Lost at Sea" by Frank Reil, "Tribute to Bishop Manning", "Through Submarine Attack", "Signalling Systems" and "Dr. Kelley Honored"
Includes "Meeting the Wartime Emergency", "Called to the Colors" by Carla Dietz, "Torpedoed Crew Welcomed" and "Lone Survivor"
Includes "Torpedo on the Starboard Bow!" by Aubrey Tidey, "Convoys" by Kermit W. Salyer, "Survivors", "Robin Moor" and "Fishing" by Capt. Harry Garfield
The Lookout September 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 9)
Includes "Rescued by a Breeches Buoy", "Sea Chests" by Robert Wilder, "Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea", "Salvage" by C. Fox Smith and "An Uneventful Voyage" by Kermit W. Salyer
The Lookout October 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 10)
Includes "'Vema' Now a Training Ship", "Men of the Convoys" by Meyer Berger, "A 'Lookout' Hero" and excerpts from the radio address "Health Services for Seafarers" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley
The Lookout November 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 11)
Includes "Ship Model Workshop", "The Windsors Visit 25 South Street", "Curtain for Castle Garden" and "Sunrise Launching"
The Lookout December 1941 (Vol. 32 No. 12)
Includes "Christmas at Sea" by Capt. Harry Garfield, "What a Sailor Talks About", "Thanksgiving Day at the Institute", "Escape" and "Ships in Ballast" by Robert Wilder
The Lookout 1942 January (Vol. 33, No. 1)
Includes "Blood for National Defense", "Ville de Liege Survivors" by Homer Strickler and "Reuben James Dead Honored at Services on 'Old Ironsides'"
The Lookout 1942 February (Vol. 33, No. 2)
Includes "Survivors", "New Club Rooms", "Captain Huntington Retires" and "Rebirth of the Windjammer"
Includes "Submarines' Toll", "The Kungsholm" by Russel Crouse, "U.S. Coast Guard Benefit" and "Commander McCabe"
Includes "We Keep 'Em Sailing!", "Vox Pop", "Maritime Day", "Life Saving Suit" and "Lest We Forget: Dunkirk - May, 1940"
Includes "Down to the Sea in Tankers" by Robert Wilder, "The Conrad Library in a War Year" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "Radio Tribute to Seamen" and "Sea Horses"
Includes "Ketty and Kitty", "Training Maritime Personnel", "The Boy Who Helped Sink a Submarine", "Clinics", "Tankermen, 1942", "The War at Sea Continues" and "Louis Gordon Hamersley"
The Lookout 1942 August (Vol. 33, No. 8)
Includes "Insignia for Merchant Seamen", "Jack Tar, Take a Bow" by Albert Richard Wetjen, "Revival of Windjammers", "Seagoing Cats" by Skipper T. Walter Williams, "A Queen Visits 25 South Street", "Help Fill Christmas Boxes" and "Last Voyage" by Merle Munson
The Lookout 1942 September (Vol. 33, No. 9)
Includes "Country Vacations for Torpedoed Seamen", "Cubicle of Curiosities", "Old Salts Emerge from 'Dry Dock'" and "Tribute to Mrs. Roper"
The Lookout 1942 October (Vol. 33, No. 10)
Includes "Hats Off to 'Ordinary' Seamen", "Pilot House Opened", "Warm Vests for Seamen", "The Death of a Tanker" by Meyer Berger, "The Inquiring Photographer" by Jimmy Jemail and "Tin Can 'Heliograph' Saves 18 at Sea"
The Lookout 1942 November (Vol. 33, No. 11)
Includes "Lady with the Lamp" by S. J. Woolf, a letter to Janet L. Roper from Radm. Wat Tyler Cluverius, "Vision for Victory", "A Sailor's Birthday Party", "New Teeth for Tars" and "Mural Map Donated"
The Lookout 1942 December (Vol. 33, No. 12)
Includes "The Role of the Volunteer in War-Time", "Central Council of Associations" by Mrs. Grafton Burke, "Volunteers in the Library" by librarian Anne W. Conrow, "Warm Clothing Needed for Seamen" and "Thanksgiving Day at the Institute"
The Lookout 1943 January (Vol. 34, No. 1)
Includes "Charting a New Year Course" by Rev. Harold H. Kelley, "Mrs. Roper Christens a Ship", "Radio Broadcasts from the Institute", "Victory Hour Broadcast", "Ship Visiting", "Sheepshead Bay Training Station Opens", "Sailors' Wives" and "Christmas at the Institute"
The Lookout 1943 February (Vol. 34, No. 2)
Includes "Seamen's Friends, Old and New", "The Ship Which Is More Than Just a Name" by Arthur D. Hall, "Winter's Perils at Sea" by Charles Hurd and "Random Observations of a Chaplain" by Rev. Laurence A. Harkness
Sea Chanties Being Revived by Youthful Seamen in Maritime Service, "'Women's Crew' Knits Ton of Wool", "Exhibit of Seamen's Paintings", "Torpedoed Sailor Safeguards His Wages", "3,200 Seamen in a Year Killed or are Missing", "Then and Now", "Sailors Fear Taxis More Than Torpedoes" and "Sinking of Carrier Avenger Painted by Coast Guard Artist"
This issue was dedicated to the memory of Janet L. Roper, who died on April 5, 1943. Of particular note is a tribute to Roper from Franklin D. Roosevelt. This issue also includes "83 Days on a Raft", "Convoys to Victory" by Harvey Klemmer and "The U-Boat Peril".
Includes "Sunlit Sea", "Survivors", "Maritime Day", "Sailor's Return", "Star of Scotland" by Dorothy Walker, "Seamen Buy War Bonds" by Murray Davis, "They Call Me Mister Now" by Kermit W. Salyer and "Conrad Library Report" by librarian Anne W. Conrow
Includes "Liberty Ship Named in Honor of Mrs. Janet Roper", "Bishop Manning Dedicates Chantry" and "Merchant Marine Medal"
The Lookout 1943 August (Vol. 34, No. 8)
Includes "133 Days on a Raft", "Along Came a Sub" by Arthur George Montaigne, "Corvette in Action" by Nicholas Monsarrat, "Artists Sketch Seamen", "Seafarers' Superstitions" by Bernard Anthony Baker, "A Night in a Lifeboat" by Ltjg. John Macauley and "Tall Tales"
The Lookout 1943 September (Vol. 34, No. 9)
Includes "Seamen Unafraid" by Capt. Edward Macauley, "Christmas Boxes for Seamen" by Mrs. Grafton Burke, "The Albatross Legend" by Gloria Amoury and "Sea Sequels"
The Lookout 1943 October (Vol. 34, No. 10)
Includes "Janet Roper Club Opens", a letter from Adm. Emory S. Land dated September 3, 1943, "The Missing Seamen's Bureau Carries On", "Merchant Seamen Buy War Bonds" and "Dances for Seafarers"
The Lookout 1943 November (Vol. 34, No. 11)
Includes "Merchant Seamen at the 'Front'" by Gault MacGowan, "Merchant Marine Academy Dedicated" by Walter Hamshar, "Activities at the Janet Roper Club", "Lighthouse on the Land" by Maris D. Hurt, "Heroes' Hotel" by Richard Molinas, "Jan's Garden" by Cecil M. Jones and "The American Merchant Marine in a Post-War World" by Adm. Emory S. Land
The Lookout 1943 December (Vol. 34, No. 12)
Includes "Tribute to Liberty Ships", "Service at Cathedral for Merchant Seamen", "Wainwright's Son Helped Save Bombed Cargo" by Walter Hamshar, "Thanksgiving Day at 25 South Street" and "Sea Water to Drink"
The Lookout 1944 January (Vol. 35, No. 1)
Includes "Then and Now", "Waterproof Wallets for Seamen", "Merchant Marine Hero Honored", "Music at Noon" by Anne W. Conrow, "Seamen's Chapel" by Edward N. West, "Insignia for Seamen", "Coast Guard Graduates", "Fort Schuyler Cadets", "Aboard an Army Transport" by Arthur H. Harrison and "Christmas at 25 South Street"
The Lookout 1944 February (Vol. 35, No. 2)
Includes "Museum Exhibit", "A Princess Pays a Return Visit", "John Paul Jones Sails Again", "The Francis Scott Key", "We Regret to Inform You...", "Torpedoed Ghost Ship, Makes Port" and "Entertaining Merchant Seamen at the Janet Roper Club"
Includes "Seamen's Institute Announces Winners in Marine Poetry Contest", "Wounded Sailor Aids Bond Drive" by Murray Davis, "The Legacy" by James Farquharson, "Lifeboat" by David Harris, "I Remember" by Bosun Herbert Colcord, "Mediterranean Adventures" by Ltjg. Cyril Martinek, "Activities at the Janet Roper Club as Sketched by Seaman T. A. B.", "Youth and the Sea" by Paul Patrick Foster, "Young Pursuer Cited for Heroism" by J. P. McKeown and "Veterans of the Sea"
Includes "A New Century Begins", "Centennial Celebration", "Centennial Address" by Herbert L. Satterlee, "Ocean Travel on the Pacific, 1866-73" by William Williams and "25 South Street"
Includes "Swing Your Partners!", "Maritime Day Ceremonies", "Peril is Their Tonic" by Roger W. Stuart, "My First Voyage" by William Russell and "The Conrad Library's Tenth Anniversary" by librarian Anne Conrow Hazard
Includes "'D' Day at 25 South Street", "Merchant Seamen are D-Day Heroes", "Teen Age Youth Volunteer for Merchant Marine", "Atlantic Bridge" by Roger W. Stuart, "A Young Good Will Ambassador" and "Mother of Navies"
The Lookout 1944 August (Vol. 35, No. 8)
Includes "Seamen Buy War Bonds", "Atlantic Bridge" by Roger W. Stuart, "The Saga of the 'Richard Hovey'", "Christmas Boxes for Merchant Marine", "Men of the 'Lifeline'" and "Reflections of an Old Sailor" by Rev. Emanuel A. Le Moine
The Lookout 1944 September (Vol. 35, No. 9)
Includes "Institute Lobbies Redecorated", "Honoring Marine Authors" and "Down to the Sea in Aprons"
The Lookout 1944 October (Vol. 35, No. 10)
Includes "Liberty Ship Named in Honor of Dr. Mansfield", "First Birthday Party at Janet Roper Club", "American Shipping After the War" by Basil Harris, "The Role of Merchant Seamen in the Invasion", "Tribute to the Merchant Marine", "Events in the Missing Seamen's Bureau" by Shirley Wessel, "Victory Ships" and "Historic Steamship 'Atlantic'"
The Lookout 1944 November (Vol. 35, No. 11)
Includes "The Institute's President and Director Honored", "Victory Fleet Day", "Crossing the Pacific in 1867" by Isaac H. Merrill and "A Review of Lars Skattebol's Book 'The Last Voyage of the Quien Sabe'" by George Noble
The Lookout 1944 December (Vol. 35, No. 12)
Includes "Exhibition of Seamen's Portraits", "Christmas Dinner in a Lifeboat", "Merchant Marine Heroes", "A Christmas Memory" by Capt. Peter Staboe, "A Hardy Centenarian", "U.S. Cargo Ships Scuttled to Make Invasion Harbors" and "The U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps"
Includes "New Ships in the Fleet," "A Dream for Annie," "Kilroy Wasn't Here"
Includes "Racing the Lifeboats," "Ships for the Schools," "Spanish, in the Main," "Success Story"
Includes "Marine Insurance - Underwriter of Trade," Madcap Magellan," "Forty Years on the Waterfront"
The Lookout 1955 August (Vol. 46, No. 8)
Includes ""Winjammer Holiday," "By the Day," "Going Dutch," and "Atoms for Submarines"
The Lookout 1955 September (Vol. 46, No. 9)
Includes "Steamboating on the Hudson," "Blueprints for the Port," "Success Story, Part II," "Out of the Ocean - Into a Stew," and "Ship To Shore"
The Lookout 1955 October (Vol. 46, No. 10)
Includes "Skipper for the Cloth," "The Big Brew," "Notes From Abroad"
The Lookout 1955 November (Vol. 46, No. 11)
Includes "Tide of Good Fortune," "It's An Emergency," "Wider and Better," "Fifty for the Ferry," "The Pause That Reverberates," "Holly Leaves in Autumn"
The Lookout 1955 December (Vol. 46, No. 12)
Includes "From the Silver Strand," "Robert X and 11,000," "Sailors on Canvas," "And Nobody Knows," "Christmas to Remember," and "Poetry Winners"
Includes "Sea Devil on the Starboard Bow!," "They Treat the Whole Person," "Double Double Toil and Trouble," "Midget Ocean Roamers," "A Captain Courageous," "They Sailed Into Oblivion" (continued from April issue), "India House," "No Threnody"
The Lookout 1971 July-August (Vol. 62, No. 6)
Includes "The Black Gang," "Maritime Day Observed," "The Case of the Caroline," "The Most Remarkable Woman of the Sea," "SCI's Port Newark Mariner's Center Host to International Sports Event," "Socker Wave," "Seaman Extraordinary," "The Swordfish," "United States Assay Office," "Enigma," "Image"
Includes "Marine Art Bonanza," "Faith in Flames," "The Ships That Opened the West," "Can Ships' Cats Avoid Catastrophes?," "Rockets of the Ocean Depths," "Intuition," "Recovery," "What Holds the Sea in Place?"
Includes "Stack Sleuth Explains Unique But Useful Hobby," "Nautical Certificates," "Coenties Slip Artists Shown At Downtown Whitney," "Happy Mother's Day," "A Very Special Friendship," "Are You Too Gullible?," "From the Log," "Old Ship's Soliloquy"
Includes "Gordon Grant Artist 1875-1962," "Miss Sanford," "Gordon Grant Windjammers and Men of the Sea"
The Lookout 1976 July-August (Vol. 67, No. 6)
Includes "The Impossible Victory," "National Maritime Day 1976," "Reflections on Maritime Day in this Bicentennial Year," "Friends of SCI Sail Into Second Year," "The Sailor's Boardinghouse System," "Colonial Cookery," "Lesser Greats," "Battleship Oregon Story"
The Lookout 1976 November (Vol. 67, No. 9)
Includes "The Eighth Wonder of the World Part II," "Freedom Train in Port," "Behind the Scene...," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 1," "Cold Turkey," "Colonial Cookery," "Launch Out Into the Deep"
The Lookout 1977 January (Vol. 68, No. 1)
Includes "Friends of SCI Hold Major Seminar," "Welcome Aboard," ""Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 3 Horrors of the Deep," "National Trust Names Harry Allendorfer Director of Maritime Preservation," "What's This Man Doing at SCI?," "On Watching the Tall Ships"
Includes "Catching-Up," "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste Part II," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 5 Exploration of the Sea," "No Final Glub," "A Touch of Weather"
The Lookout 1977 July-August (Vol. 68, No. 6)
Includes "Twenty Seven Flags," "I Had to Go Down to the Sea," "National Maritime Day 1977," "Friends of SCI Annual Membership Program Launched," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 7 Science and Ancient Sea Stories," "Flood Tide, Ebb Tide"
The Lookout 1977 September (Vol. 68, No. 7)
Includes "An Ecumenical Welcome Aboard," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 8 Mineral Resources of the Ocean," "Harbor Fesitval '77 & 4th July in Old New York Makes Lower Manhattan Weekend Holiday Celebration," "First National Maritime Heritage Conference A Notable Success," "A Heritage of Maritime Words," "Her Restless Eyes"
The Lookout 1977 October (Vol. 68, No. 8)
Includes "Roosevelt Institute Continues to Operate at Capacity," "Institute Director Sails to Success in Governor's Cup Race," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 9 Can the Sea Feed the Land?," "A Place for the Ship-Wrecked," "Fisherman's Quay"
The Lookout 1977 November (Vol. 68, No. 9)
Includes "Institute Gets New Bus," "Welcome Aboard," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 10 Pollution: Is the Sea Dying?," "American Merchant Mariner's Memorial," "First Alaskan Oil Arrives in U.S. Via Sea-Land Containership," "Thanksgiving," "A Tasty Seafaring Tale," "Sins Oughta Be Forgiven"
The Lookout 1977 December (Vol. 68, No. 10)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "Santa Goes to Sea…," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 11 Law of the Sea," "A Book of Remembrance," "Hark! The Herald Angels Saved Us!," "Christmas and New Years Bells"
Includes "Knitting Exhibit Unravels History of the Craft," "You Are Invited," "The FELICIA, the last High Liner into the Fulton Fish Market, New York City," "Oceans: Our Continuing Frontier Lecture 15 Women and the Sea Not All on Widow's Walks," "Harbor"
Includes "A Complete Institute" and "Give Jack a Confederate Bill"
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey
Sails with the Military Sealift Command, gets a permanent position in 1964-64, gets his book from the National Maritime Union (NMU)
Different jobs on ships, training at the NMU
Different Seamen’s Church Institutes around the world (Germany, Korea, San Francisco)
Coming to the mainland from Puerto Rico in 1948
Sailing on the SS AMERICAN EAGLE, a tanker that suffered an explosion on 1984 February 26 in the Gulf of Mexico
Hearing the explosion while in the shower, abandoning ship
Waiting to be rescued in the water, thoughts on lives lost
Picked up and brought to an oil rig near New Orleans before returning to New York
The Lookout 1979 January-February (Vol. 70, No. 1)
Includes "Pluto, Plato, and Playboy," "Viva Vivian," "Solo Sailor," "Who's Afraid of the Bermuda Triangle?" "From Gas to Grass," "The Gallant Ladies of New York Harbor Part II," "Grandma's Scrap Book," "King Kong's Bathtub?"
The Lookout 1979 March-April (Vol. 70, No. 2)
Includes "The Star to Every Wandering Bark," "Emigration: Those Who Did," "Stockings… With Care," "Winter Conference Meets During Winter's Worst Blizzard," "The New Rope," "In Praise of Sailors," "The Gallant Ladies of New York Harbor Part III"
The Lookout 1979 June-July (Vol. 70, No. 4)
Includes "Merchant Seafarers Honored on National Maritime Day at St. Paul's Chapel, N.Y.C.," "Chief Flying Angel Visits SCI," "The Mystique of Freighter Travel - To Anywhere," "Lightships Live on as Enviro-Lab Classrooms to Learn from the Sea…," "Encounter at the Pier"
The Lookout 1979 August-September (Vol. 70, No. 5)
Includes "Maritime Friends of SCI Honor Robert T. Young at Gala Dinner," "Youngest Contributors to the Benefit," "Other Young Friends," "More on the Berengaria," "Seanmen's Sports Week A Great Success," "Morry, You Made It," "Stranded," "Seafarin," "Too Late, Born," "About the Book of Remembrance," "Archaeologist Peter Throckmorton to Report on N.U.M.A. Search to Date for the Bonhomme Richard," "The Devil Makes Work...," "Metropolitan Area Welcomes New Senior Naval Officer," "British Sailors' Society
The Lookout 1979 October-November (Vol. 70, No. 6)
Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Helps Sponsor… 6th Annual Governor's Cup Race," "SCI Chaplain Serves Seafarers and Others In Need at U.S. Public Health Service Hospital," "I'm Fine," "Lovely Lady From Down Under Sends Sox and Lots of News," "Roaming Randall's Rambles," "Menhaden Fishing with a Cessena 210," "The Language of the Whales"
The Lookout 1979 December (Vol. 70, No. 7)
Includes "Mariners at Sea on Christmas Day Not Forgotten by Friends Ashore," "We Need to Work Together," "Plum Duff," "Last Minute Shopping?" "On the Sea," "A Christmas Message"
The Lookout 1980 January-February (Vol. 71, No. 1)
Includes "Mrs. Helen Mansfield Hunt Presents Portrait of Her Father to the Institute," "Nautical Gala a Great Success," "New Visitors Center Offers Novel Way to Learn About Work of Institute," "Dr. Bissell Meets the Reverend Mansfield," "Nightmare on the English Channel," "Twenty Singing Seamen," "Seaway"
The Lookout 1980 March-April (Vol. 71, No. 2)
Includes "New President of the Board Elected at Annual Meeting," "Hey, Editor, There's Someone You Ought To Meet," "Hobbies at Sea," "SCI Counselor Appears on Trinity TV Program," "Deus Ex Machina: A Song of the Engine Room," "Commissioning," "Author - Come Forth," "Ballad of the Galapagos Worm"
The Lookout 1980 June-July (Vol. 71, No. 4)
Includes "Maritime Community Honors Its Own Special Friend At Dinner Benefiting the Institute," "Coast Guard Presents Commendation to Institute Ship Visitor," "Reprints of Rare Books Describing Early Days of Sail Edited by SCI Librarian," "USYRU and SCI Sponsor Important Safety-At-Sea Seminar," "Institute's First Woman Chaplain Ordained At Trinity Church," "Joshua Slocum and the SPRAY," "Reclaiming Sunken Treasures," "Maritime Artifacts Displayed In Nantucket Rooms at Lord & Taylor," "Straightdecker"
The Lookout 1980 August-September (Vol. 71, No. 5)
Includes "Journey By Freighter," "Free Form Sculpture By A Seaman," "In the Steps of Captain Cook," "The Things We Did Last Summer," "An Ode to Autumn (Sailing)," "Herman Melville," "The Lone Cypress (California)"
The Lookout 1980 October-November (Vol. 71, No. 6)
Includes "New York Harbor Ablaze with Sails for 7th Annual Governor's Cup Race," "Soccer Week A Great Success," "On Pluralism and the Independent Sector," "A Selection of A-1 Clipper Ship Cards," "Seminarian Reports on Summer's Work at SCI," "Three Cheers for Volunteers," "Beachcomber"
The Lookout 1980 December (Vol. 71, No. 7)
Includes "Volunteers Miss Seaman-Helpmate As They Pack Christmas-At-Sea Cartons," "The Welfare of the Seaman and His Family," "Going To Sea: Some Things Never Change," "Herman Goldman Foundation Awards Grant for Education to SCI," "Seafarers' Services Expanded in Port Newark," "SCI Extends Warm Welcome to Shipcraft Guild," "Christmas is a Gift of Knowing"
Includes "New York: A port of U.S. import ...for how long?" "SS Poet: A Seafaring Mystery," "City Harbor Development: Commissioner Outlines Plan," "SCI Assists in Expansion of Services to Seamen," "The Eternal Sea and the Seafaring Artist," "Jones Assumes Congressional Leadership," "William N. Johnston Elected to SCI Board," "Institute's Forgotten Files Become Official Archives," "Maritime Personality: Herb Brandon," "Zeppelins"
Includes "Coal: Crisis for the 80's," "Federal-State Hearing Reviews Future of NY /NJ Ports," "Needed: A Maritime Transportation Policy," "A View From The Bridge: Charles I. Hiltzheimer," "John Callahan: Surveying New York Harbor," "Moby Dick: The Ubiquitous Whale," "The Book of Remembrance," "Olivia Wins Atlantic Cup," "Memorial Service for Admiral John Mylin Will"
The Lookout 1981 September-October (Vol. 72, No. 3)
Includes "The Port of New York/New Jersey: A View from Capitol Hill," "Legislative Labyrinth," "George Washington To Ronald Reagan: 200 Years of Regulation," "Capitol Report," "Inside SCI's Internship Program," "Mermaid: Fact or Fiction?" "Flying Angel's Michael Chin at Institute," "Todd's Turnaround"
The Lookout 1981 December (Vol. 72, No. 4)
Includes "No Quick Fix For Maritime Industry," "New Chairman Brings Punch to Federal Maritime Commission," "The Human Factor At Sea," "Coal & Oil, Fish & Freetrade Zones Combine to Assure NY/NJPort Growth," "Search for Sunken Vessels," "The Mysteries of Marine Insurance Revealed," "Castles in the Air," "Christmas Fare," "Caps Off to Christmas-At-Sea," "The Professional Challenge: Maritime Education for the 80's"
The Lookout 1982 February-March (Vol. 74, No. 1)
Includes "Millicent Fenwick: Legislator," "Macro-Engineering Offers Hope to Regional Economy," "James P. McAllister Takes ICONN-Erie Seriously," "Knowledge: The Key to Seamanship," "Radar School to SCI," "SCI Expands Communications To Seamen and Port Community," "Windjammers Sustain Sailing Tradition," "Charity: Coercion VS. Compassion?" "Airboats and Submarines," "Greater Newark Urban Coalition Visits Port Newark"
The Lookout 1982 June-July (Vol. 74, No. 2)
Includes "Linda Seale: Woman at the Helm," "Japanese Maritime Management: Men or Supermen?" "Asia's Maritime Future," "Of SSSSS's and ZZZZ's," "Navy Expansion and Congress," "SCI Establishes Center for Seafarers' Rights," "Life on the Mississippi Towboat Style," "User Fees: A Question of Equity," "Fleet's In"
The Lookout 1983 February-March (Vol. 75, No. 1)
Includes "MOSAT: Mobil Marine Spans the Globe," "New Taste for 'New' Fish Could Mean Port $'s," "Meat & Potato Journalism for Decision Makers," "Jimmy, Gerry, Bill, Irv and World Trade," "Sea Story: The Country Doctor and Rudyard Kipling," "Friends & Taverns: 18th Century Style," "A Book of Remembrance," "Conduct Unbecoming"
The Lookout 1983 November (Vol. 75, No. 3)
Includes "Moynihan Advocates PortsUser Fees," "Ships' Officers Part of Management Team at APL," "Special Seafarers' Center at Passenger Ship Terminal," "SCI Maritime Education Expands," "The Deutschland Saga," "A Mariners Chapel Dedicated to America's Wartime Seafarers," "Phoenix Sails on Schedule"
The Lookout 1984 April-May (Vol. 76, No. 1)
Includes "IUC - A Big Company on a Small Island," "Life In Port," "What is the Seafarer's Center All About?" "A Report from The Hon. Anthony D. Marshall, President, SCI Board of Managers," "Workshop Plans Action on Love Boat Abuses," "High Tech Helps the Harbor," "Lights of the Port of New York," "Fish That Eat Barnacles"
The Lookout 1984 December (Vol. 76, No. 3)
The Lookout 1985 Spring (Vol. 77, No. 1)
Includes "Ships That Come Apart," "SCI Update," "Welcome Aboard," "Waterspouts are Real," "Port Authority Seeking Revival of Commercial Fishing in New York Harbor," "Does the Eagle Sail Your Way?" "Marine Trivia," "My Love Affair with the French S.S. Line," "Admiral Mahan and The Institute"
The Lookout 1985 Summer (Vol. 77, No. 2)
Includes "Port Round-up," "The Fifth Plenary Conference of ICMA," "Hong Kong Missions to Seamen Plans for the Future," "Splitting the Buoy," "Basic Firefighting Takes to the Field"
The Lookout 1986 Spring (Vol. 78, No. 1)
Includes "Coast Guard Delivers in Spite of Budget Cuts," "SCI Hosts First U.S. Conference on Port State Control," "Louise Sacchi," "Christmas at Sea 1985," "Shipping Out," "What Was it Like Aboard the Titanic?" "Wreck Ashore!"
The Lookout 1986 Fall-Winter (Vol. 78, No. 3)
Includes "SCI's Summer Seminarians," "U.S. Flagships Win Contracts to Carry Japanese Cars to American Markets," "Meet Katharine De Berkeley Parsons," "The Port Chaplain Network," "An Unfortunate Story… with a Happy Ending," "Plum Duff," "Tools of the Trade," "The Birth of Christmas Carols"
ALFRED MOORE in January 1944, liberty ship to North Africa carrying cargo, sails as boatswain
At Italian port loading ships with troops for the front lines
EXCHESTER in June 1944, Hog Islander to Cuba for sugar; problems with lice
Takes job on the ACHILLES, coastwise coal ship, misses D-Day
WINFRED L SMITH in September of 1944, decision to stay on for the Murmansk run
Assembling the convoy in Scotland, leaves from Iceland with well equipped escort
Turns 21 onboard ship in Russia; captive stevedores load and unload ship, interaction with the Russians
Unloading narrow-gauge locomotives with supplies to Leningrad
Journey back, attacked by planes; gets off ship in Portland, Maine
Gets a job on ROBERT L VANN, a liberty ship, with friend at the union hall in New York
Sent through the Channel to Antwerp on the Skell River, hits a mine on the way back
Moments on the ship before the mine hit, moment when the mine hit
Abandoning ship, releasing the life boats
Brought to shore at Ostend, Belgium, brought to British Army Depot
Brought the England on ferry boat, meets up with Captain at hotel, no men were lost
Brought back to U.S. onboard the MANHATTAN along with six other torpedoed crews
Transported form Norfolk, Va. to New York locked in railroad cars
Paid off in lower Manhattan, given discharge papers
Time in New York, training at cram school on Whitehall Street
Passes 3rd Mate’s exam in Providence, R.I.
CACIQUE in May 1945, freighter to South America as Jr. 3rd Mate
Hears about the War ending at sea, turns on deck lights
On his first voyage, picking up troops for the pending invasion of Japan
Hearing about the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan while at sea
Hearing about the end of the War in a French port
Sinking of the freighter EXANTHIA in 1947
Employment with the Seamen’s Church Institute
Growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City
Returning to Germany in 1947, Japan in 1946
In Nagasaki five years after the War, Mayor greets his ship
Being a picket line captain on strike in San Francisco in 1946
Membership with National Maritime Union and the fight for worker's rights
Navigating the submarine net in New York Harbor from Coney Island to Hoffman Island
February 1943, attempts to join Marines at age 15, foiled by his aunt
April 1943, leaves school for New York City, attempts to get his seamen’s papers
Goes to Detroit and gets a job as a porter on a Great Lakes paddle wheeler passenger ship
22, Experience getting a ship in New York, witnesses the accidental shooting of a shipmate, removed from a Murmansk-bound shop to serve as witness
Gets on a ship and leaves in convoy from Norfolk, Va. to the Persian Gulf
Assisting the Navy gun crews in handling the artillery shells
Discharging cargo in Khorrammshahr, Iran for the Russian army, 17th birthday
Engine breaks down while waiting for convoy at Strait of Hormuz, goes to Port Sudan, returns to Norfolk, Va.
Torpedoed vessels, rumors about joining the invasion in Italy
Takes a job on a Hog Islander to South America, backs out because there was no action down there
Takes a job on a tanker to and from Aruba
Takes a job on a liberty ship, loads a Cadillac limousine for delivery in Normandy
Sees the V-1 rockets, “buzz bombs,” over the Thames in London
Half the crew given shore leave at Southampton, ordered to go to Utah beachhead at Normandy with the remaining half of the crew
Anchors at Normandy, unloads the limousine for Eisenhower
Gets shore leave at Cherbourg and meets up with other half of the crew
Discharges rest of cargo at Liverpool, loads Coast Guard patrol boats and returns to New York with Coast Guard crews who had participated in D-Day
Takes jobs on tankers to London, Venezuela
Takes job on troopship Edwin B. Alexander, army transport in July 1945, brings back Women’s Army Corps
Brings back 4,440 GIs from La Havre to New York
Sharing sleeping quarters with GIs, celebratory mood of the voyage home
In New York and Times Square when the War ends
Loads cargo of Wyoming horses in Houston, Tx.
Transporting supplies to Europe after the end of the War
Post-War Germany, bells on the docks and submarine parts
Sailing to Korea and Japan before the Korean War starts
Drafted in 1952 at age 27, joins the army
Sails on a ship in 1951 with radio equipment from Norfolk, Va. to Northern Greenland to supply a Cold War radar station
Barge communities tied up alongside each other in port
Growing up in Trinidad; coming to the U.S. as a war bride in 1949
Meeting her husband at a military base in Trinidad
Work as a receptionist at a studio in Port-Au-Spain, Trinidad
Coming to the U.S. in 1949; leaving Trinidad while pregnant
Moving to England with her husband, who was transferred; having him transferred to Germany; returning to the U.S.; death of her husband
Children return to Trinidad; taking domestic work in New Jersey
Coming from England to D.C.; birth of her son
Description of the union halls in New York City
Seeing the workers on deck on the ship from Trinidad to the U.S.
Her first job on the SS United States in tourist class; description of the work
Rules for conduct on the ship for the crew
Multiple voyages on the SS United States from 1965-1969 as a relief worker in different classes; work with other shipping companies
The Conservatory of New York’s work with the SS United States today; the ship’s current condition
Taking jobs on ships going to England to see relatives
Women working at sea; clothing inspections
New York ports compared with other ports around the world
Carrying ammunition to Korea on SS Export Courier
Beginning of career at sea, training on the JOHN W. BROWN 1954-1956
Classes at the National Maritime Union (NMU) and the JOHN W. BROWN
Keeping watch as a spiritual experience, sailing in fog
Racism on ships, getting along with other seamen, officers; Fight with an officer
Supplying the Navy during times of conflict
Head injury at sea, struggle for compensation benefits
Growing up in New York City wanting to sail
Difference between a government career and a union career
Relationship with Navy personnel on board
Work schedule, communication with family back home
The American Merchant Marine Veterans Association
Stowaway on a ship from Puerto Rico to the mainland
Attempts to become a seaman at 14 years old, fails to get his papers
Joins the Civil Conservation Corp., works on a project in the Utah desert
Joins the Navy, places on a LST training ship, gets injured and receives honorable discharge
Thoughts on health, medicine, and history
Being a stowaway, catching rides on trains, cars, and trolleys
Sailing with the Merchant Marine during World War II; Sailing on the liberty ship W.P. FEW, delivering supplies in the Pacific
The atom bomb and the end of the war, dumping cargo overboard
Registers with the Seafarers International Union (SIU), sails through the Panama Canal
Switches from the SIU to the National Maritime Union (NMU), sails in Asia during peace time
Sailing in the Pacific, the threat of Japanese submarines
Forming a committee to challenge the leadership of the NMU
Violence at NMU meetings, fight with Joseph Curran’s son
Works at the Brooklyn docks in 1963 as a carpenter and lasher
Joins the Local 1 Checkers and Clerks union and works at Port Newark in the 1990s
Moving cargo in the Port during Desert Storm
Scanning freight with the Geiger counter
The change from old cargo-moving techniques to containerization
The International Longshoremen’s Association and similarities to the film “On the Waterfront”
The new Seamen’s Church building in Port Newark
Moving cargo pre-containerization in the 1960s
Waterfront Commission’s regulation of the hiring halls
RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations laws)
Quality of career, gains made by the ILA and because of automation
Today’s globalized, automated economy, and the importance of distribution
Training for steward department at Sheepshead Bay in 1945, staying at the maritime pool in midtown Manhattan
End of the war, bringing troops back the the U.S.
Sailing as a gunner's messboy in the Pacific, Yokahama, trouble unloading cargo post-war
Gets entry-level rating in engine room, ships out for North Atlantic to Bremerhaven, decides to sail in the Caribbean
In port with supplies ready for invasion of Japan, learns about the surrender of Japan, shore leave for Navy Gunners in Seattle
With high school education, gets designated to track inventory
Promoted to Oiler, works for United Fruit Company and the Cuban Mail Company to Central and South America, gets ratings at Sheepshead Bay
Port cities in Central and South America, the Merchant Marine Library Association
Keeping watch in port, schedule and free time in port, restrictions in certain ports
Shore leave in foreign ports, Bremerhaven in 1946
1950 works as Oiler on the Staten Island Ferry, drafted into Korean War, stationed in Germany for 18 months
Difference between landlocked jobs and life at sea
Returns to NYC to work for Department of Public Works on “sludge boats” from 1952-1977, description of sludge boats and sewage plants
Description of New York City water and sewage system, process of treating sewage
Description of working life on the sludge boats, gets Engineer's and Chief Engineer's licenses
Operating the sludge boats, working culture on the sludge boats
Goes to work for the Coast Guard ferry to Governor's Island, description of Governor's Island
Typical workday on the ferry to Governor's Island
Difference between blue water trips and offshore of river trips with sludge boats and ferries, effects on family
Volunteering at the South Street Seaport Museum and the Kings Point American Merchant Marine Museum
Getting involved with the American Merchant Mariners Veterans Association and the South Street Seaport Museum
Interesting sights and stories on the sludge boats and ferries
Sense of community with the crew on the sludge boats
Joins US Navy in 1960; works shore side jobs, including for the International Trade Organization in NYC
Gets his Z card and joins the National Maritime Union. Sails as Ordinary Seaman, then Acting AB, then AB
Takes the 3rd Mate’s exam and studies celestial navigation. Sails as Boswain and gets 2nd Mate’s License via the Seamen’s Church Institute Navigation School
Sails on the CV LIGHTNING, one of the first container ships. Discusses the CV SEA WITCH, which sank at the pier
Sails as Mate. Discusses using the sextant to conduct celestial navigation
Taking measurements with the sextant in cloud cover
Given a sextant by Seamen’s Church when the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library closed. Takes classes at the FDR Institute at 15 State Street
Sails on 4 different ships during the First Gulf War, from Desert Shield to Desert Storm. Transported dud missiles back to the States from the Middle East. Transported cargo for combat from the U.S. to the Middle East
Stationed at the piers in South Vietnam during the War
Shot at while traveling upriver in Vietnam. US Army claims the bullet holes were from World War II, denies the crew compensation
Sails on the BIDDEFORD VICTORY. Travels to Naples, Italy in 1969
Thoughts on post-Reagan American Merchant Marine. State of the industry today
Closing thoughts on education, training, and experience in the Merchant Marine
Crew on the sludge boats, status of the jobs
Ships out with a friend on the Murmansk Run (1943 or 44), from Scotland
Picks up a convoy of about 100 ships and an aircraft carrier under threat from the TIRPITZ (sister ship of BISMARCK), past Bear Island to Murmansk
Cutting through the ice in the White Sea, gets frozen-in and waits for an ice-breaker
Unloading tanks in Bacaritsa and dealing with Russian customs; a crane collapse
Going ashore in Bacaritsa; going to the intourist place in town; cutting off heat on the ship to conserve fuel
Interacting with the local Russians; is invited into a Russian home
Walking across the ice to Arkhangelsk; finds an in-tourist for Russian officers, contrast with local poverty
Two Russian crewmembers welcomed in Russia, disappeared once they got to Russia
Gets harassed by a group of Russian soldiers
Finishes unloading, picks up convoy near Murmansk; ships lost on the way back home
Tries to ship back out, called into Naval Intelligence and questioned about group of Russians who harassed him back near Arkhangelsk
Decision to join the merchant marine at 17 years old; taking the train from Missouri to New York City
Impressions of New York City, Times Square; training at Sheepshead Bay
Relationship to the AMMV; monument in Lakeway, Texas
Getting his Third Mate's license after the War; decision to leave the merchant marine for a career in accounting
Buzz bombs in Antwerp during the Battle of the Bulge
Takes a train with some friends to Brussels, caught by some M.P.s at a bar, sent back to Antwerp
Hears explosions of V-2 rockets while leaving Brussels
In Japan one month after V-J Day; builds an improvised boat to get ashore in Tokyo Bay, nearly sinks, rescued by Japanese fishermen
Explores post-war Tokyo, other Japanese towns
Parents immigrants from Poland, family; first ship Lawrence D. Tyson March 6, 1944, signed articles March 9, 1944; pension
Political life, history of involvement with the Communist party, brought to testify before HUAC
Career as a designer for a radio paging company in NYC
Seamen's papers confiscated by the FBI, returned to sea in 1951 as a radio operator
Received security clearance to sail on MV CAPE TEXAS in 1991, sailed until 2011
Discusses decision to join merchant marine in 1944 as an 18-year-old, Samuel Gompers Vocational High School, received his commercial radio license at PS 20: Maritime Training School
Drafted, but rejected based on his eyesight; discusses desire to be involved in the war effort
Receives combat bar on first voyage in the Mediterranean during March 1944; manning the radio during an attack on his convoy
First foreign port in Sicily carrying vehicles and ammunition, and German missiles back to the U.S. after the War
Sails on the MV CAPE TEXAS during Operation Iraqi Freedom, attempts to unload cargo in Turkey but are turned away; unloading cargo in Kuwait during fighting
Ship Marine Snapper transporting refugees from Korea in the 1950s
Sailing during Iraqi Freedom; being the oldest guy on the ship; keeping radio silence during the War and a near collision
Typical shift in the radio room, and standing watch
On the Keystoner; responding to a distress call from a tug boat on fire near the Panama Canal, picks up survivors and brings them into San Francisco
Growing up in Brooklyn, NY; working as a projectionist at the New Amsterdam theater on 42nd Street
Radical politics at sea and along the NYC waterfront; Communist leaders of the maritime affiliate of the American Communications Association, later the American Radio Association
Political career, opposition to Free Trade Agreement and outsourcing; temporary work in NYC garment district, runs for Congress in Florida as an Independent Socialist
Growing up in Missouri with his four brothers; his father's store
Graduates high school and takes a job waiting tables on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River; hears advertisements to join the merchant marine, decides to join and is confident that FDR will grant merchant marine GI Bill rights
St. Louis to Sheepshead Bay, and five weeks of training on Chesapeake Bay; decides to work in the engine department
Reasons why he joined the merchant marine as opposed to the Navy (4:17, “sinking in NY Harbor”)
Finishes training and is sent out to San Francisco to wait for a ship; sent up to Port of Chicago (north of SF), nearly misses a fatal explosion (Port of Chicago disaster) from unloading dangerous cargo
Shipping small reconnaissance aircraft from Long Beach, CA to Brisbane, Australia on the Liberty SS FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR;; sails as Wiper in the Engine Room, reads about the invasion of Normandy on the same day his ship arrives in Australia
Transferring explosive cargo from a wrecked ship in Brisbane to New Guinea and various island ports
On Island (beyond New Guinea), explores the island with deckhand friend, horsing around with grenades and smoke bombs they found in an army dump
On island off New Guinea, deep harbor with a floating dock, incident with bombs falling off his truck
Picks up artillery cargo from Sidney, then to Hilandia? where the harbor was full with ships preparing for the invasion of the Phillippinnes
Back to San Francisco, pays off on January 4, 1945 and ships out from New York City on the troop ship Mariposa, gets his camera confiscated and is interrogated as a suspected spy
Liverpool and Cherbourg first voyage; Algiers and Naples, second voyage; Marseilles and Naples, third voyage; Cherbourg and Le Havre, fourth voyage
Just misses his oldest brother, enlisted in the Army Air Force, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Le Havre; returns home to visit his family; difficulty of communicating with his family during wartime
Liberty ship Robert E. Perry ships coal to Liverpool when the bombs drop on Japan; goes on a date with some local girls in Liverpool, walks home in the middle of V-J celebrations. (July-August)
Recalls showing his wife the Engine Room of the John Brown in Baltimore, MD
Robert E. Perry was the fastest Liberty ship ever built (4 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes); discusses the hasty construction of Liberty ships
From Staten Island to Yokohama, picks up 19 troops and brings them home to San Francisco, leaves on New Year's Eve back to Staten Island
Sailed on the Liberty Ship William M. Stewart (Oiler as opposed to fireman/watertender), ships coal to Montevideo, Uruguay, then picks up wheat from Argentina; Chief Engineer passes away and body examined for foul play in Portugal en route to Belgium (Lend-Lease program)
Oren N. Roberts, ships coal from Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Denmark, back through Le Havre (Fall 1946); seamen go on strike in the U.S. so ship sent down St. Lawrence seaway to pick up wheat from Montreal, shipped to Glasgow, Scotland; pays off in Galveston, Texas November 27, 1946
Life after the merchant marine: education as a linotype operator; career in a printing offices; lay offs due to technology (cold type to hot type); career as a wedding photographer; retires in 1993
Decision to leave the merchant marine: lack of desire to make a career at sea
Traveling with his wife during retirement
Born in Brooklyn in 1926, joining maritime service in 1944 after being rejected from armed services, training at Sheepshead Bay and as a radio operator on Hoffman Island
Takes exam for 2nd class radio telegraph license, waits for an assignment at the maritime pool, radio operators unions
Training at Hoffman Island, learning Morse code
Decision to join the merchant marine, testing into radio operator training at Hoffman Island
Choosing to go to London on the liberty Samuel Griffin, experience being rejected from the armed forces
Desperation to get involved in the war, watching New York Harbor from his office on Wall Street
High school at Erasmus Hall, looking for classmates at Normandy Beach Cemetery
First voyage on the liberty Samuel Griffin to Savannah, GA, loaded prefabricated houses for displaced residents in England, sails to Tilbury Dock in London in 1945
V-1 and V-2 rockets in London, food rationing, delivering pre-fabricated houses
Loading 700 American troops in London, some scheduled to travel on to the West Coast for launch of the invasion of Japan, learning en route about the atomic bomb drop on Japan
Interacting with U.S. Army officers, returning to New York City, loading recovery cargo for Europe in Newport News, VA, sails to Naples, Italy, sings “Isle of Capri”
Shore leave in Italy, transporting whiskey
Typical workday as a radio operator, receiving a message about the birth of his daughter
Sails on the liberty SS Thomas J. Jarvis in 1945-1946 to Cherbourg, France, unloads coal by bucket
Sailing as a lone operator, sending and receiving messages
Loading coal in Galveston, Texas, sails for England, receiving a message from shore
Sailing to Antwerp then back to New York City
Working for Socony Vacuum on oil tanker ships along the East Coast and South America, receives radar training at Sheepshead Bay
Decision to stop going to sea and to start a family, gets drafted on technicality into the U.S. Army, teaching and working at sea during the summers
Thoughts on exclusion from the GI Bill, thoughts on the sea
Started sailing at 17 years old in 1944, turned down by the Navy in 1943 because of eyesight; training at Catalina Island, attends Cook and Baker school
Coastwise trip from San Francisco to Puget Sound
Liberty ship GEORGE M. PULLMAN to Saipan in August 1944; trip to Guam; explosive cargo
Typical nightshift making bread and breakfasts
Postwar Victory ship to Okinawa in the middle of a typhoon, anchored in Buckner Bay unable to offload cargo, ship offloaded by Japanese prisoners of war, interacting with the Japanese prisoners of war
Sailing out of northwestern port towns, Juneau, Alaska; losing a man overboard
Stops sailing in 1946, goes to Alaska to work for cost-plus companies; career as a policeman
Getting called to the 20mm deck gun to standby as second loader to Navy gunner
Spots a flare gun in the middle of the night
First trip to Saipan, friend goes ashore and gets in the middle of a firefight; exploring the Saipan jungle, finding burial site
Hospital ship in the Pacific hit by kamikaze planes
Effort to get retroactive benefits for the AMMV, meeting with Senator Harry Reid's staff
Picking up the mail in Okinawa in the middle of a typhoon
Witnessing a lifeboat unhook from a ship and crash
Waiting to get home, interaction with U.S. soldiers waiting to get home; swimming and fishing
Education at Fort Schuyler, decision to pursue a career in the maritime industry
Coursework at Fort Schuyler, decision to pursue Deck Department, going to sea during summers, exploring port cities in Europe
Graduating and entering the job market, first voyage on a grain ship, unloading grain in Croatia, first paycheck
Sailing on American ships, losing a job in 2008 during the market collapse, taking jobs on oceanographic survey ships
Working for Maersk on varying contracts, decision to take a job on land, comparable experiences of classmates at Fort Schuyler
Current work with Vanuatu Maritime Services in New York City registering ships under the Vanuatu flag, ensuring vessels comply with International Maritime Organization regulations, complying with the Maritime Labor Convention 2006
Difference in sailing with new regulations and technology on ships, disconnect between seafarers and international organizations, thoughts on international maritime standards
History of international maritime standards
State of American merchant shipping, competition from foreign markets, negative impact of the Jones Act
Foreign-built ships and outsourced labor
Pressure to comply with MLC2006 in foreign ports, decision for Vanuatu ships to comply, thoughts on why the U.S. has not signed
Staying at Seamen’s Church Institute, services provided; experiences in New York City
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Creation of the Coast Guard rescue swimmers program; speaking to the Coast Guard, witnessing rescue swimmer drills
Importance of safety training; speaking in front of Congress, industry reforms regarding survival suits and decommissioning WWII-era ships; sinkings of other WWII era ships
Psychological impact, health problems after the sinking; reaction of family to news that he survived
Family history; professional history at sea; work as Chief Mate on VLCC tankers
Fate of Phil Corl, Captain of MARINE ELECTRIC; bodies recovered; keeping memory alive with his daughter
Labor disputes during the Reagan administration; work teaching at a vocational school
Health problems after his rescue; returning to work after vacation with Keystone Shipping on the ENERGY INDEPENDENCE on same route as MARINE ELECTRIC
Results of investigation into the sinking; fines against Marine Transport Lines, lack of resolution with Marine Transport Lines
Story of the second survivor, Bob Cusick; what happened to the other two survivors after the accident; stories of deceased seamen and their families
Coast Guard helicopter runs out of fuel, spots one more survivor; helicopter picks up third survivor
Making a grab for the Coast Guard’s rescue basket; process of Coast Guard’s response, involvement of Navy rescue swimmer; being raised into the helicopter with second survivor
Coast Guard helicopter flies over, returns and hovers overhead; signaling the Coast Guard with a flashlight
Uncontrollable shivering, urinating to keep warm; prospects for rescue; seeing strobe lights of other life jackets
Alone in the water; bumping into five other survivors clinging to a life ring; buckling life jackets to the life ring; deaths by hypothermia
Death of engineers; fear that the propellers were still moving in the water; sound of the storm and explosions; pitch blackness, flotsam and jetsam; ingesting oil in the water
Man overboard; ship capsizing before life boats were launched; falling overboard and seeing the smokestack crashing down next to him, a mysterious hand saves him; death of his grandfather twenty years prior
Listing to starboard, starting to roll over; blowing the whistle to abandon ship; falling down a flight of stairs, throwing life rings; lowering the life boats
Tripping the iPRO distress beacon; preparing life vests and life boats; heroic action of shipmate
Watching from the bridge as water flooded over the bow; Captain’s orders to abandon ship; gathering equipment, preparing to abandon ship
Seas coming over the bow; problems with the ship’s pumps; Captain’s communications with the Coast Guard
Seas coming up over the stern; keeping watch at 8pm; woken up at 0100 and summoned to the bridge
Rolling in thirty-five to forty foot seas, heading for deeper water; National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the SS MARINE ELECTRIC’s sinking
Loading the ship in Norfolk on February 9; leaving harbor in a moderate storm, worsening of the storm; distress signal from fishing vessel THEODORA, rescue by the Coast Guard
Third officer on SS MARINE ELECTRIC; events leading up to the accident that determined life or death
Childhood in Boston; entrance into Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1971; first trip through the Panama Canal; joining Masters, Mates and Pilots; work on tankers; work on SS MARINE ELECTRIC
Childhood in Massachusetts, family; entrance into Massachusetts Nautical School, training on school ship, graduation in 1940
First job as fourth mate with American Hawaiian Lines; trip in July 1941 from New York City with war material to Port Sudan on Arkansan; in port at Cairo when Germans bomb the port
Trip on the liberty ship Samuel Chase as third mate; description of construction process for liberty ships; loads cargo of dynamite in Baltimore, MD; apprehensions about the war, comfort in spirituality
Reaches Reykjavik, Iceland on June 1, 1942, sails in “coffin corner” of 37 ship convoy; attacked by German submarines, witnesses a torpedo nearly miss his ship, sink ship next to him; a second near miss
Under dive-bombing attack, ushered to secret port while surviving convoy proceeds to Archangel; picks up convoy to return to U.S., loss of ships in the night
Desolation at secret Russian port; reaction of communist crewmembers
Fate of the convoy, a ship that ran aground on ice who painted their ship white as camouflage
Delivering cargo; more ships lost to German submarines; return to New York from Belfast in October
Description of Naval armed guard; arming the guns with German planes overhead; description of miracles
Second trip out from New York City to Iran in January 1943, separates from the convoy to deliver cargo; witnesses explosion of Arthur Middleton, hit by torpedo while in port, 53 dead and 3 survivors
Cargo of gasoline and bombs; accident in which a bomb fell through the hold of the ship, misses convoy to New York City as a result
Trip from New York City to England on the SS Pennsylvanian as second mate in May 1943, replacing a life boat; salvaging damaged ships; sinking of Christopher Newport
Captain's illness; being on the bridge during attacks
Trips from New York to Liverpool, discussion of photographs, SS Pennsylvanian; sailing in waters with no submarines without knowing it; sailing without convoy
Description of work, description of work schedule
Instructions to strip SS Pennsylvanian for D-Day invasion to be used as a block ship; mistake of a chief mate
Experience as a Naval Reservist, decision to stay with the merchant marine; discussion of military service
Sailing from Glasgow to the beachhead at Normandy in late June 1944; adjacent ship hits a mine; keeping the ship at even keel; watching the deliberate sinking of the Pennsylvanian; taken ashore to a barracks for the night
Bused to a summer resort; celebratory mood of civilians in town; leaving for home on the SS Argentina from Southampton
Training on the USS Nantucket at the Massachusetts Nautical School; learning traditional navigation techniques
Dreams about time at sea, his interpretations as to their meaning
Incident in which the FBI inspected a liberty ship, confiscated documents
Thoughts on the Navy; description of clothing worn as a mariner; getting along with Naval gunners on ships
Celebrating V-E Day in Long Beach, CA; celebrating the New York City ticker tape parade from the ship; staying at the Seamen's Church Institute
Going back to sea in 1981; last voyage in 1985, incident with a sick passenger; delivering cargo to Egypt; retirement
State of the postwar American merchant marine; decision to take business courses at Columbia University; career after the merchant marine; work in marine industries and as a steamship agent; retirement in 1991
Public opinion against the merchant marine during and after the war
Returning to the United States Lines, first back of his crew; decision to go back to sea
Aided by a WSA administrator and fellow Massachusetts Nautical School alumnus; transported back to Long Island, NY and seamen's hotel in Manhattan in October, 1945
Waiting for an American troop transport plane in Singapore; smuggling food into camp
Inspections at the Sumatra camp; decision to delay evacuation of American prisoners; escaping the camp by truck and leaving for Singapore on an Australian plane
Completion of the Sumatra railway at the end of the war; interaction with Japanese at the end of the war
Leaves camp for Singapore railway construction job (10% loss of life); abuse of Japanese interpreters
Daily life in the prison camps; interaction with elder Dutch officers; learning Dutch
Prisoner of war in Java at British military prison camp; moved to former Dutch infantry barracks; conflict with Japanese camp Lieutenant; decision to volunteer for transfer
Experience onboard German raider; transferred to Uckermark to Java, handed over to Japanese
Reunions between German captors and Duffy in Germany
Drawings done while a prisoner; keeping busy while a prisoner; studying the German ship
28 days as a German prisoner; interrogated about European politics, personal background; likeability of captors
German raiders in the South Atlantic; leaving Cape Town without a convoy; running into a raider on the way to South America; sunk by a German Raider, 11 killed, surviving on a float, picked up by Germans; 47 prisoners (September 10, 1941)
Trip out to Persian Gulf on MS American Leader to Trinidad without convoy, then to Cape Town, Indian Ocean; loading rubber in Sri Lanka
Trip to the Persian Gulf; keeping charts on the Pacific trip
Coming into port at Los Angeles; taking on two passengers bound for Hawaii on special Navy orders weeks before Pearl Harbor; sailing for Australia without a convoy; dropping cargo in Australia; coming back to New York as one of the first ships back from the Pacific
Trip to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila; spotting an American submarine in the Pacific; benefits of his training
Took a job as an 8-12 watch officer with United States Lines in New York City on the MS American Leader; transition from a cadet to an officer
Start of World War II; training as officers in Caribbean; Summer '41 in Azores and the Caribbean; Graduation September 1941, expansion of the merchant marine
Childhood in Massachusetts, Newburyport, family, sea scouts; decision to leave town and enroll in Massachusetts Nautical School (Mass Maritime); failing physical exams at USCG and Navy; training on USS Nantucket
Misconceptions about the merchant marine
Graduation from Maine Maritime Academy in 1970, decision to pursue a career in the merchant marine; work on USNS ships at Thule, Greenland; difficulty finding permanent work
Work on station ships during the Vietnam War; work on ships in the Far East
Difficulty finding work, taking medical relief jobs; moving around, working in different industries; moving to different port towns, resistance from local unions
Moving up in grades, sailing as chief engineer with Sea-Land in 1977; transition to container boxes on T-3 tankers
Working alongside experienced seamen who had come up the hawspipe; experience on first voyage on USNS YUKON; confrontations with older shipmates
Asking Port Engineer at Sea-Land for a job as chief engineer, argument over age and experience; getting chief engineer’s license, getting a job with Sea-Land in Rotterdam
A port strike lays up the ship; sailing across Europe and the Middle East with a replacement crew; getting even with an old enemy
Working for Sea-Land on SL-7s; thoughts on Sea-Land
Sailing on the SS MARINE ELECTRIC before it sank; thoughts on changes in the industry, professionalization of crews
Working on different types of ships; thoughts on changes in crews, life at sea
Going into port in the old days; changes in shore leave, offloading cargo; changes in regulation, communication, management
Working for Maritime Overseas Corporation; sailing on a prepositioning ship carrying diesel fuel to Diego Garcia; waiting in port for six months at the Philippines
Firing crew who broke rules in port; working on the same ship for seventeen years
Story about a seaman who tried to bring a monkey onboard ship
Parties in different ports; feeling depth charges in the engine room during the Vietnam War; changes in regulating drug and alcohol use
Sailing on SL-7s, stress; attempting to get off the PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
Sailing through Valdez; sailing through a storm, losing power
Sun Oil Co.; accident in the engine room
Thoughts on retirement; transitioning to life shoreside; starting a business; philanthropy
Thoughts on common characteristics of seamen; thoughts on living history
Taking his wife on ship; passing along stories to children
Thoughts on maritime career; having a relationship with human resources; thoughts on young kids starting careers; thoughts on money
Making bets with the quality review worker in port
Changes in the maritime industry, technology, communication
Comradery between the maritime community at sea and shoreside
Keeping in touch with the maritime business, students, and friends
Scrapping fleet in the early ‘90s to compete with double hull ships; starting consulting business
Storm at Cape Horn; how to deal with a storm at sea
Spending time at port as opposed to out at sea, stopping at good ports as Captain; unloading grain, favorite ports
Keeping a record of every ship sailed on
Retiring from sailing in ’93, working as project manager at Maine Maritime Academy from ’96- ’11; going back to school for master’s program in international logistics management
Communication with outside world while at sea; vacation time spent with family
Inexperienced vs. experienced mates regarding assigned work, learning from watching others; manual ships; story about first watch and gyro compass failing
Current way of obtaining licenses; differences between maritime schooling and going straight to sea
Learning in school as compared to learning hands-on at sea
Bringing family on commercial ships, daughters loses luggage on Alaska trip
Obtains Captain’s license in 1970, new build ships; first Captain’s job
Obtaining a chief mate’s license; hauling jet fuel during the Vietnam War, missile trackers on ship
Childhood, schooling, attending Maine Maritime Academy ‘60-‘64; first job on oil tanker as third mate; license exams
Last voyages on older ships, struggling to adapt to modern standards
Retirement, work after the merchant marine; last ship, the RHODE ISLAND; thoughts about marriage and the merchant marine
Preparing the CALIFORNIA to run aground in India; sending mechanical parts back to Texaco
On the CALIFORNIA waiting in anchor in India to determine disposition of ship; sold to Indian dealer for scrap; dumping beef into the harbor and running aground on the beach; history of the ship
On the NORTH DAKOTA carrying raffinate in the Gulf of Mexico hits an oil rig and catches fire; abandoning ship, fighting the fire; towed back to Port Arthur, Texas and scrapped
Mother’s illness, moving back to Massachusetts; more office work at Key Highway Shipyard, and as port relief officer; other ships
Office work making calculations regarding updates made to the Texaco fleet in the wake of the OKLAHOMA sinking
Incidents on the OKLAHOMA; marriage in 1971 and traveling from west coast working on MONTANA and CONNECTICUT to Port Arthur, Texas
Graduates in summer 1970, looking for work; working as third engineer for Texaco OKLAHOMA; description of work; sinking of the ship
Sailing on training ship NANTUCKET to various ports; friend at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Crewmates on EXTAVIA; work as a cadet on EXTAVIA
Childhood in Massachusetts, family; enrollment at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1966; first work on dredging ship; work on EXTAVIA in 1967 to European ports
Closing thoughts; being away from family; life lessons
Sailing on a Navy sealift tanker, electrical fire onboard; USNS SANTA CLARA repossessed in San Francisco in 1986; Captain of the KATAHDIN at Moosehead Lake
Sailing on passenger ship as Captain, California heat; Palm Springs
American Export Lines sold to Farrell Lines; union issues; working on LNG ships, ARIES, working for Texaco as chief mate; Working for El Paso Marine
Second mate on “D-Ships”; sailing to Egypt on the EXPORT COURIER, forty days in Alexandria; EXPORT CHAMPION, tenth wedding anniversary at sea
American Export Lines, EXPORT BUILDER, sailing from New Orleans to Bangladesh; encountering reproductions of Columbus’ ships at sea; pet monkey
Sailing to India, LNG ships in 1976; training in the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Sailing in the North Sea, encountering sea ice outside of Leningrad; transporting farm tractors; laying the ship; a “flying saucer” in the Bermuda Triangle
Sailing on the BROOK as chief mate to Leningrad
Marine hospital in Staten Island, sailing on the EXPORT LEADER as third mate; Piraeus, Greece; playing golf with the Captain
Being on radar watch, iceberg; near-miss story
Sailing on the LIGHTNING; man overboard in storm at sea
Sailing on the ADMIRAL CALLAHAN, gas turbine engines; sailing on the EXPORT ADVENTURER
Muddy banks in Seville, Spain; drinking story
Sailing to Lipari Island; NYC longshoremen strike; job on EXCLESIOR, Venice; downtown Baltimore; watching movies in a submarine
Graduates from Maine Maritime Academy in 1968; first job with American Export Lines, first voyage on EXPORT BAY as third mate; chasing a submarine through the Mediterranean; sending a message in a bottle
Looking back on life and career; what the future will hold
Having an epiphany off the coast of Miami; retiring
Accident on the job; obtaining a Certificate of Inspection; resigning
Becoming a company man with American President Lines in 2009
Working on U.S. Navy oceanographic research vessels mapping the ocean floor; turning down the position of commander
Dealing with piracy, preparation against pirates at sea
Heading east, ports and shore leave; traveling on a grain ship to Bangladesh; piracy
Obtaining an unlimited chief mate's license; working and sailing on container ships, working for Sea-land and Central Gulf; transporting cars
Working and studying through the 1990s; Masters, Mates, and Pilots
Working in the midst of Desert Storm/Desert Shield; operating without official authorization or recognition from U.S. government
Mutiny on board, the day before the war; drilling for a dummy corporation
Iran/Iraq tanker wars, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company; working during Desert Storm at Ras Tanura, explosions at night
Running out of fuel, cleaning fuel filters; Cameron, Louisiana Coast Guard inspection; towing a vessel to the Caribbean; Vancouver
Going up river in Nigeria; sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with a tow, broken air conditioner; Devil’s Island; Trinidad
Communication with family while at sea; keeping the coal-fire stove going; sending mail
Drilling after World War II using U-Boats; sophisticated equipment on vessels
Transporting workers, Billy Pugh system; offshore oil drilling technology; drilling off the Baltimore Canyon in 1981
Towing icebergs off Greenland; offshore oil drilling ships, working with Inuit
Describing the speed of an offshore oil vessel; tracking Russian submarines
Getting into the oil industry as a merchant seamen, first day on the job
Family background; joining the Marine Corps in 1969 and going to Vietnam; joins Zapata Marine Services in 1979; worked for Vita Chemical Tankers
1975 accident on the Delaware River; risk at sea; life after the merchant marine
Leaving cooking job to finish college, wanting to work in the wheelhouse; staying at Seamen’s Church Institute
Dealing with complaints onboard, training as a cook, a day in the life of a cook on a ship
Working for Exxon on tugboats, being the relief cook
Picking up paycheck at Spentonbush-Red Star office in New York; dealing with the union
Male behavior toward a woman onboard; working for Spentonbush-Red Star as a cook, finding support with the crew
Having her photograph in the Getty newsletter; being the first woman crew member for Getty
Game room story; dealing with an all male crew
First job working for Getty as a saloon mess-boy; stretching a liberty ship; comfort-level, buying a world map; isolation on board, dealing with an all male crew
Doing contract work, dealing with a storm
Women in the maritime field; political awareness of the field; learning
College, going into the maritime field, eyesight
Sailing up along the coast with family, hurricane off the coast of North Carolina; taking the Coast Guard auxiliary course
Advice for working on the river; modern communication
Working in the present; Marquette Transportation Company; heading back out, time-off
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Getting along with crewmates; on being a Captain
Going home, spending time-off; keeping in touch with crewmates
Working for time-off, overtime; day for day, “thirty on thirty off”
Being away from family; unions and contracts, non-union companies
Being a pilot for various jobs; working in the harbor and running the river; story about meeting wife
Being in the pilothouse, working on tugs; growing up and farming
First job on boat lasts 38 days; towing oil barges; joins Coast Guard
Childhood; schooling; working at local newspaper; leaves home in 1953, receives port security card
Closing thoughts and reflection; on success
Looking toward retirement; working with Vanderbilt University
New York City being the hub of the river industry; impacting the job market
Being a mentor at Seamen’s Church Institute, learning from case studies
Thoughts on profession today; entering the profession; support system at Seamen’s Church Institute; common sense
Seamen’s Church Institute; working with the Coast Guard
Looking back on professional career, various jobs, 1970s-1980s, takes job at Ingram Barge Company; father retires; working at Seamen’s Church Institute
Maids and daymen onboard; crew members, downsizing; types and sizes of the barges, new technology
Safety on the job, descriptions of safety over time
Family life, having a support system; communicating while away; making the job a good one
Initiation, mentoring, becoming a family, keeping in touch
Obtaining license and working for a tug service in 1975; helping and being accepted by the older mariners
Types of people working in the river industry, riding the river boat as a young boy, aspirations
Reflections on traveling via the rivers, Great-Grandfather and the shore community; day for day schedule, wages
Reflecting about work over the years, closing thoughts
On Rev. Kempton Baldridge; simulator training at Seamen’s Church Institute; towboating, book learning versus hands-on experience
Technology onboard over the years, in the pilothouse; romanticizing and reflecting on the old days; utilizing experience versus today
Human resources, training efficiency; still learning
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Change of command over the years, fear versus respect; treatment of workers
Working at Ingram Barge Company; thoughts on going shoreside
Process for obtaining a first mate’s license; Cargo Carriers; returns to Ingram Barge Company
Summary of jobs since 1974, Ingram Barge Company, started working at Cargo Carriers in 1980, Mississippi Towing
Earning respect onboard, learning and working on deck, training
First trip on the river pumping barges, stories about crew mates pulling pranks
Growing up in western Kentucky on a dairy farm; schooling; summer jobs, first experience working on a barge
Background on parents; accidents on the job
Siblings; working on a barge today; emphasis on safety
Background, living in Western Kentucky, working on the river for the first time; Ingram Barge Company
Advice for newcomers; reflections on the industry from past to present; safety and experience
Moving on from your mistakes, on quitting school; family life
Going shoreside, studying your craft; making a difference
First job as a pilot; Huffman Towing; Ingram Marine Group
Looking back on career, becoming a pilot; having the same name as his father
Reading charts, navigating, river conditions
Learning the feel of the boat; mastering your craft, reading the river
Family life; first trip out; Tennessee Valley Towing
Skipping school and cleaning barges; family in the industry, father working on boats, growing up
Education; on leaving school and working on the river, learning
Background; family, as a child riding on a tug for the first time
Advice for newcomers, thoughts on son’s future; reflection
Using your license accordingly; new applicants, regional maritime industry; transporting cargo
Communication with home; wages and benefits; retiring
Current technology vs. old technology, cell phones, receivers
Going shoreside, emergency situations; missing the freedom of time-off
Medical issues and safe working conditions
Going shoreside, obtaining license, rules and regulations
Captain as a mentor, wheelhouse, safety procedures
Working with the same crew; stepping in the shadows, staying awake too long
Hiring process; parents, working in a factory, leaving home and growing up
Becoming a captain; truck shipping; hiring process
Background, working on first boat in 1982, obtains tanker license
Looking back on the marines and the Vietnam War, communications; combat missions
Calling home; looking back on being a cook
Thoughts on the river in present day; being careful on deck; downtime
Looking back on the industry; getting a job; culture surrounding the river; being home, family
Accidents; traveling through the lower end of the river, scenery; picking up groceries
Taking early retirement; getting along with the crew
Picking up groceries, being a cook; family
Starts working on the river with American Commercial Barge Lines; first voyage working as a cook
Background, joining the marines and the draft; working in the automobile industry after the war
Story about the “dragon lady”; union wars in the eighties
Job advice for younger people; finding work; comparing merchant mariners to the military; rules on smoking; typing skills
Spreading awareness of the merchant mariners, merchant marine academies
Looking back on father’s career; schooling and recertifying; post-retirement
Last voyage, working with different crews
Meeting people; balancing home life; technology over the years
Working on the river; downtime; Seamen’s Church Institute; retiring
Reasons and responses for crew mates quitting; earring story; working on the world’s largest steam dredge
Eastern Shore Railroad; story about crankcase explosion; getting caught in a storm; taking on fuel
Thoughts on going shoreside, having a day off; Port of New York
Changes over the years, safety and regulations; maintaining friendships
Growing up with a maritime father, tugboat; working for several companies during career; retiring
Working on a dredging ship; becoming a chief mate
Childhood, relationship with father; dredging
Working with Seamen’s Church Institute; the flood of ‘93, receiving Al Gore’s Hammer Award
Safety programs over the years; operating World War II surplus equipment, searchlights, navigation
Being a port captain, going on sabbatical; being SCI’s Director of Inland Training, discussing the program
Going shoreside, developing a steersman program; on the job injuries and accidents, safety standards
First voyage, leaving college, obtaining license, working on the Illinois River as a pilot
Background, growing up in Barlow, KY, working for farmers, starts working on the river
The river industry in present day; Seamen’s Church Institute in present day; introducing new technology in the 90’s, “imagination gap”; brick and mortar buildings
Working at Seamen’s Church Institute, being an instructor; changes in the river industry over the years, interviewing deckhands, dealing with the heat
Being a port captain; working with the Chaplain, Seamen’s Church Institute
Moving to and working in Louisiana, becoming a port captain, new technology; making decisions
Working for Madison Coal & Supply Company; working on paddle wheel boats, loading coal barges
Background, family; following the river, first job on the river, obtaining license
Teaching and sharing knowledge; being proud and still being on the river
Advice for younger people, reflecting on the profession
Working with father-in-law, family support; keeping in touch with crewmates over the years, a community onboard
Working for Ingram Barge Company since the 80’s; personal hardship, reflection
Working in present day, having grandchildren; being with Seamen’s Church Institute
Managing family life; working in the 80’s
Technology in the past, radar; working for Ingram Barge Company; obtaining pilot’s license
Training in the wheelhouse on days off; decking; first day as a pilot, starting out
Getting into the rhythm of the work; raising a family; looking for work in the wheelhouse
Background; introduction to the river; previous work; starting out as a deckhand, first job on tugboat
Docking in Delaware Bay; talking while being at the wheel
Trial voyages; being at the wheel, dealing with the waves, watching the water
First voyage after restoration; checking the compasses, getting lost in the bay
Replacing parts on the JOHN W. BROWN; leaking steam
Sailing back home, stopped sailing in 1946
Working on the SS SAM DART, sailing from Naples to Baltimore, dealing with a storm while sailing through the Mediterranean Sea
Working onboard the Liberty ship SS SAM DART in 1944; coffee pots, breaking ice
Segregation onboard; fixing the steering
Machine guns onboard; fixing up the ship; working on converted German tanker in 1945
Returning to England in 1943; transporting coal, unloading in Casablanca
Casting off from the Port of Immingham; steering the STAD ARNHEM; loading and transporting lumber; fishing
Raw fish; engine room, observing the convoy at night; working on the STAD ARNHEM
Sleeping conditions; duties aboard, serving the crew their meals; seagulls
Convoys, working on a Dutch ship in the engine room
Protection on the sea, corvette ships, World War I destroyers
Being a deckhand, sleeping conditions; submarines; convoys
End of training, waiting in the reserve pool; first job aboard a reefer ship in 1942
Training on the VINDICATRIX, eating conditions, lighting on the ships
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Gun tubs; state of Project Liberty Ship today
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New York Harbor School; SS UNITED STATES
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Changes to Project Liberty Ship over the years; younger people on board
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Painting and renovating JOHN W BROWN in the 1980s; visiting the ship, becoming an electrician on board; retaining knowledge of the layout; traveling to the ship
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Basic ship training, tying knots; senior projects, painting the ship
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Project Liberty Ship, James River Reserve Fleet, bringing the ship back to New York City
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Graduating and receiving your degree, coursework, vocational training; Fort Schuyler and Kings Point; post-training for the JOHN W BROWN in New York City, Project Liberty Ship
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Faculty, departments, morning and afternoon groups; row boat team competitions
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JOHN W BROWN curriculum, traveling to the JOHN W BROWN, reasons for attending, interviewing process, grading
Liberty ship BALDWIN after the war, cargo and restoring Europe; Senegalese troops on board
Writing a memoir, playing music; returning to the JOHN W BROWN
Married in 1949; coming shoreside, the draft, odd jobs while being shoreside; buying clothes in Baltimore; benefits in the 1980s; becoming a piano technician and running a music store
Arriving in New York City, staying at Seamen’s Church Institute; shipping out of Baltimore, working on an oil tanker, duties as an oiler
Out to sea for eleven months; after the war, losing propeller of ship heading from Italy to Norfolk, towed into New York City
Shipping troops home after the war; last trip on Christmas going through a storm in the Mediterranean, cracked hull; guns
Santos, Brazil, unloading cargo at various ports
Bar fight in Lorenzo Marquee, going to jail, loading coal, getting the crew back
Docking at Port Said in the Suez Canal, attempted robbery at port, HMS AJAX story, dumping ammunition overboard
Convoy en route to Antwerp, tanker under attack, hearing about the passing of President Roosevelt, VE Day; convoy down to Galveston, German submarine off Port Judith
National Maritime Union, working on first ship, convoy; shipping out of New York City during wartime, submarines
Working on fishing boats as a young boy, tobacco farm, working at a navy base at age sixteen; graduating, National Maritime Union
Growing up in southern Maryland and working on a fishing boat, joining the merchant marine at age seventeen, training
The industry today, advice, closing thoughts
Communications, GDF SUEZ NEPTUNE; working at Massachusetts Maritime Academy; changes in the industry
Micro-managing; changing after the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill
Exxon Hondo platform, loading offshore; working on the EXXON JAMESTOWN, working in Alaska
Teaching at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, class subjects
Graduating from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, flying to first interview for Exxon; navigation technology, radar
Childhood interest in the river; Massachusetts Maritime Academy, living on the training ship USS NANTUCKET
Old piers along the Battery in Manhattan; United Fruit Company ships backing out off the piers without tugboats; a near-accident
McAllister’s dredging operations; towing steel for the Tappen Zee and Verrazano bridges
Families living on barges on Columbia Street in Brooklyn
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Conversations with son about food; cooks on tugboats
Story about a “gentleman” pilot from down South who did not work out
Difference between mates, captains, and pilots; licenses, navigating New York Harbor
Moving barges loaded with coffee to Maxwell House piers on Christmas Eve during a storm
Description of typical workday as a dispatcher
Industry changes, regulations, bigger tugboats
Running the pilot pool for McAllister and Dalzell; working as a salesman for McAllister, attending parties
Thoughts on pilots; growth of McAllister fleet, losing an account
Towing barges for McCallister; working as a dispatcher, description of work, ease of transition shoreside; buying out Russell Brothers in 1963; buying out Dalzell Towing Co. in 1965
Running up Erie Canal, Connecticut Sound, Great Lakes with Russell Brothers; leaving a job in Toledo, taking a deckhand job on the McALLISTER 41 in Brooklyn
Resentment from crew mates, quitting Cornell Steamship Co.; picking up a job on the RUSSELL 20 tug in full Army gear, meeting Walter Hughes
Serving as a paratrooper during the Korean War; returning home and working at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn repairing U.S. Army transports; getting a job as a deckhand with a Cornell Steamship Co. tugboat
ELLEN F. McALLISTER tug boat; coal-burning steam tug boats; accident unloading coal; LST engines in McCallister tugboats
Tornado on Lake Erie, damage to the tugboat and barges; competition with other companies
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Falling overboard and swimming for two hours to the lighthouse in Bridgeport, CT
Training at the Seamen’s Church Institute radar school; taking the captain’s exam
Thoughts on unions; returning from overseas and having trouble getting his union card back in New York City
Towing a cargo of molasses on the RUSSELL 20 from Bermuda; work schedule
Getting his high school diploma; working as a dispatcher, knowledge of the harbor, rapport with captains
Sailing coastal voyages during wartime; navigating through the submarine nets in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound; sailing as a deckhand with a daredevil captain
An accident near Troy, NY, losing a barge down on a dam; trying to save the barge, evacuating the town
Returning from overseas, running from Bucksport, Maine to New York City with newsprint for the New York Times on the RUSSELL 19
Coming shoreside to work in the office at Russell Brothers and Bronx Towing Line; working as a consultant in hospitality services; retirement
Coming home from overseas, returning to work in the harbor, getting his Captain’s license; working for Russell Brothers; marriage and wife
Working on tugboats with his step-father in the 1930s; joining the Army in 1943, joining the paratroopers; fighting overseas, surviving the Waal River Crossing
Piloting the JOHN W BROWN as a memorable experience
Advice for new pilots, apprenticeships; being punctual; closing remarks
Training over the years; communications, DGPS and radar; post-Panamax ships
Keeping in touch with crew mates; different personalities; bridge resource management (BRM)
Settling down in Maine, Tenant’s Harbor; difference between sailing blue water and on coastal tugboats
Difference between traveling on small and large ships; being a pilot while having a family; retirement, benefits of knee surgery
Weather conditions at sea; different kinds of ships and talking to the crew; weather conditions (reprise); miscommunications
Apprenticeship; language of the sea; ship hierarchy
Introduction, background; wanting to be a pilot growing up; apprenticeship
A lucky encounter with a school of whales in Spring 1944
Discovered by a sympathetic guard, given a Russian snowmobile and escapes over 700 miles of tundra to a train in Konosha? back to their ship
Heads into town with a friend – 13:22; 13:35 – train switched tracks and carried them 800 miles to Moscow, sent to a prisoner camp at St. Petersburg at bayonet-point
Reaches Murmansk, icebreakers lead them into Archangel, Russia; frozen-in from December 26 to end of March; unloading on sleds to the railroad
Ships out for the Murmansk Run from Bayonne, NJ in a 37 ship convoy to Glasgow, Scotland; attacked after leaving Scotland, lost 17 ships out of 33
Transporting fuel in Northern Africa, Italy, and the Persian Gulf through the Suez Canal through October 1944
Transports fuel from Bayonne, NJ to the Azores and the UK; passing over the coordinates of the HMS HOOD; passing over the coordinates of the BISMARCK
Encounter with man claiming to be employee of Dutch Royal Shell in Tampico, Mexico; same man leads submarine attack on his ship the next day
Joining the merchant marine on 18th birthday in 1943, training, first voyage on a T-2 tanker in September 1943 to Venezuela for oil
Lack of recognition and compensation for the merchant marine
Attack on the harbor at Bari, Italy in December 1943, theory of the Liberty ship JOHN HARVEY with mustard gas cargo, spreads into town
Thoughts on military strategy in the Pacific
Making a living doing odd jobs after the War, career as an appliance technician, meeting his wife
Studies for his Third Mate license, continues to sail as AB until 1949, goes back to sea during the Korean War
Ships out on a ship with Navy cargo to the Pacific and China with his cousin after the war ends
Sent to an Army hospital in Hollandia, New Guinea; waylaid for a month before being sent to Marine Hospital in San Francisco, hitchhikes home
USS HOPE sent to pick up casualties from Leyte, Philippines
Sent to lubricate the running gear in the rigging, falls and breaks his arm, becomes the first patient on the USS HOPE
Dropped off at Palau, three hospital ships waiting to pick up casualties from Leyte, activity of the Japanese in the Philippines
Picks up 80-ship convoy in Hollandia, New Guinea with General MacArthur in a cruiser in the center of the convoy
“Hot landing” offloading in New Guinea under enemy fire, Sansa Por (off coast of New Guinea)
Sails out on his first Liberty ship from Oakland, CA overloaded with war cargo to New Guinea
Joins the merchant marine at San Francisco with his cousin at 16 years old in 1943
Life on board, getting along with the crew
Exxon’s treatment of employees: meals, holidays, ban on alcohol, movies
Retirement at age 80 after 47 years at sea
Investing in Exxon; treatment of employees
Using the evaporator to make fresh water
Starting as a fireman with Exxon; received training in Boston, earns First Class license
Beginning of career with the Merchant Marine
Army bases across the Arctic Circle; Army men marrying Inuit women
Inuit communities, giving them wood from shipping crates
Cutting ice during the War; accident with the boom snapping
Escorting the Army upriver in Iceland following Germans to German radio station
Beginning of World War II; working on the St. Lawrence River; relationship with river communities
Leaving from Duluth, MN in a Coast Guard cutter and iceberg breaker to Greenland for two years; bringing iron ore to automobile factories on the Great Lakes
Working on a buoy tender on the Great Lakes
Coast Guard bootcamp in New Orleans in 1941
Childhood and family; working for the United States Steel Corporation as an apprentice machinist; becoming a locomotive repairman, begins working at United States Steel Corporation Mobile Equipment Mechanics apprentice training school
Advice for future engineers and mechanics; looking back on teaching
Training workers; troubleshooting and learning
Differences for managers, helping workers; a knack for engineering
Workers stealing, catching them in the act
Comradery on board, disciplining workers
The future of commercial engines, algae fuel
EMD 645 engine, improving on locomotive and towboat engines
Working on engines; relationship between management and workers; troubleshooting
Ingram Barge Company buys Midland Barge Company; helping workers transition from Midland to Ingram
Begins working for Ingram Barge Company in 1981; begins working at McGinnis Inc. Shipyard in South Point, OH; back to Paducah in 2002 for vessel maintenance
Equipment at the school, training, ending the apprenticeship programs; Ohio Barge Line, goes to work in Pittsburgh in 1975
Sobriety on the boat, being saved, routine in daily life
On faith and the road to sobriety, revelation in the chapel, finding hope
Clinton Railroad Bridge incident and learning from it; accident in the coal room; a bolt of lightning on Christmas day in 1989
Captain at 27 years old on the AP CALHOUN, JR; jet boats; being on the same vessel for 30 years, learning the river
Protocol in the wheelhouse, learning skills the hard way
“Sweating Bullets”, fear and overcoming it, making mistakes
Learning skills; marrying at 30 years old, being sober for 21 years, life experience
Working on first boat SIPSEY with a crew of two people; training with Cliff and “Tommy” Griggs; transitioning to line boats
Working on the river at 18 years old in 1971, Malloy Marine Services; starting out cleaning barges, from deckhand to pilot at 20 years old; serendipity
Introduction, childhood, parents working for Hoagland Barge Line Co.; siblings, working on the river in 1971
Carrying lions as cargo; carrying cyanide tanks
Working with American Merchant Marine Veterans Association
Sailing runs in the family, working for SeaLand, Malcolm McLean, McLean Trucking Co.
Retiring in 2000; steam turbine engines; elected to leadership in Offshore Division of Masters, Mates, and Pilots in the 1990s
Crane accident in Bremerhaven; pilfering and containerization
Quarters on SeaLand ships; structural damage from speeding
Differences before container ships; working on the SS SEALAND GALLOWAY
Started working for SeaLand in 1966, speed of cargo ships
Staying at Seamen’s Church Institute; Maersk; working for SeaLand
Background, family; working for Bloomfield Steamship Company at age seventeen
Being at the museum, Capt. Ralph Cropley’s letters, models at the museum
Seamen passing away while staying at 25 South Street, seamen’s monument at Evergreens Cemetery; disabled seamen
25 South Street in the 1960s, renovations in 1970s; flophouses; on profanity
Interactions between seafarers and the chaplains at 25 SOUTH STREET; seafarer’s clothing; “goon squads” in the 1930s
Joseph Conrad Library, newspapers; seafarers hanging out at the museum
Being at 25 South Street, attending dances at the International Club; Sailor’s Snug Harbor; adapting to the weather
Spending time at sea and settling down; 25 South Street; on Capt. Ralph Cropley
Getting involved with Seamen’s Church Institute, working with the Cropley models; starting a family; on BOD for International Ship Holding Corporation; background on National Cargo Bureau
Graduating from Fort Schuyler; helping out at the museum; being a marine surveyor for the National Cargo Bureau in 1970; working with the International Maritime Organization
Background, visiting the Marine Museum at the Seamen’s Church Institute in 1954, meeting Capt. Ralph Cropley; Fort Schuyler
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1978
1978 Annual Report. Includes "N.Y.C. Ports Commissioner Moves to Fully Develop City's Waterfront Resources" and "In Times of Crises" by Rev. William Haynsworth.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1979
1979 Annual Report. Includes "A Spiritual Port of Call for Seamen" by Monica Maske.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1980
One Hundred Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1981
1981 Annual Report. Includes "In Search of a Miracle: The Future of Professional Seamen", "America's Future: A View from Abroad", "The Sandy Hook Pilots" by Francis J. Duffy, "The Era of the Floating Chapels", "Shipvisiting and the Institute: Three Seminarians Give Their View" by Ann C. Lammers and "Antonio Jacobsen: From Sail to Steam" by Margaret Miller.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1982
1982 Annual Report. Includes "A Port Without Peers" by Sid Moody, "Renewal of US Maritime Strength a Key Goal of New Transportation Secretary", "Seafarers' Services Division at the Heart of SCI Programs", "The Black Whalers of Nantucket" by Anita M. Gauthier and "US Merchant Ships as the Fourth Arm of Defense. Where Do We Stand?"
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1983
1983 Annual Report. Includes "Volunteers Bring Special Touch to Work of the Institute", "Summer Seminarians Gain Insight into Life of the Seafarer", "Maritime Friends of SCI Honor a Special Friend and Launch the Institute's 150th Anniversary Year", "Center for Seafarers' Rights Made a Division of Institute" and "A Moment in History: 'The Youngsters of the Seven Seas'" by John Bunker.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1984
1984 Annual Report. Includes "A Day at SCI's Port Newark Center", "Summer Seminarians", "Commissioner Susan Frank", "The Saga of the Star of Scotland" by Dr. Robert B. Hope, "Ports and Happy Havens" by Rev. William Haynsworth and "Lucky Sea Dog Learns to Dance" by Dr. Tessa Nelson-Humphries.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1985
1985 Annual Report. Includes "Capt. Elizabeth G. Wylie and the Military Sealift Command - Atlantic", "The Court Carrier 'Saga'", "Ninth Gala Dinner Honors Michael Maher" and "Port State Control Conference Draws International Maritime Community."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1986
1986 Annual Report. Includes "City Ports Department is on the Move", "Meet Mimi Potts", "Book of Remembrance Marks Its Thirty-Fifth Year" and "Peking: The Men Who Sailed Her."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1987
1987 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1988
1988 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1989
1989 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1990
1990 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1991
1991 Annual Report of Gifts & Grants of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1992
1992 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Standards of Care", "Spotlight" and "CME Course Descriptions."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1993
1993 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Communicate", "A Community of Hospitality" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1994
1994 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Communicate", "The Legacy of Seafarers' Rights" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1995
1995 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Expansion of Maritime Services Underway", "Communicate" and "Spotlight."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1996
1996 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Reaching Distant Shores: SCI Empowers Chaplains to Start Port Missions", "Communicate", "Spotlight" and "Picture This."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1997
1997 Annual Report. Includes "Director's Log", "Buildings of SCI", "The Architects Comment", "SCI's Floating Chapel History", "Opportunities for Giving", "Special People, Special Places" and "Spotlight/Profiles."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1998
1998 Annual Report. Includes "Maritime Training: CME Creates Computer Simulations of South American Rivers."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 1999
1999 Annual Report. Includes "Maritime Training: SCI to Open New Center for Maritime Education."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2000
2000 Annual Report. Includes "Latin American Ports", "Center for Seafarers' Services", "Center for Maritime Education", "Center for Seafarers' Rights" and "Water Street Gallery."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2001
2001 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Helps the Heroes at Ground Zero", "Center for Maritime Education", "Center for Seafarers' Services", "Center for Seafarers' Rights" and "Water Street Gallery."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2002
2002 Annual Report. Includes "Ship Visiting Brings Message of Hope", "Top Ten Reasons Why Seafarers Rely on CSR" and "Competent Error is a Problem of Attitude."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2003
2003 Annual Report. Includes "International Seafarers' Center", "Ministry on the River" and "International Training Center for Workplace Ministry (ITC)."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2004
2004 Annual Report. Includes "Spiritual Ports on a Lonely Sea" by John Chadwick and "Towboat Crews Often Work Unseen During Long, Intensive Journeys" by Jennifer C. Yates."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2005
2005 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Serves Mariners' Personal Needs", "Seamen's Church Institute Educates Mariners" and "Hurricane Katrina and Rita Relief."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2006
2006 Annual Report. Includes "Seamen's Church Institute Educates Mariners", "Seamen's Church Institute Serves Seafarers and Cruise Ship Workers" and "Seamen's Church Institute Provides Care to River Mariners."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2007
2007 Annual Report. Includes "SCI Provides Pastoral Care and Hospitality in the Port of New York & New Jersey", "SCI Serves Cruise Ship Workers in Manhattan and Brooklyn" and "SCI Conducts State-of-the-Art Navigation and Safety Training."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2008
2008 Annual Report. Includes "Cruise Ship Terminal Services" and "SCI's Heritage: Celebrating 175 Years in 2009."
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey- Annual Report - 2009
2009 Annual Report. Includes "SCI Goes West, Adds New Operations in California", "The Human Cost of Piracy" and "World-Class Technology Unveiled in Paducah."
The Lookout 1978 September-October (Vol. 69, No. 7)
Includes "In Praise of Boats," "3rd Triennial Conference of the International Christian Maritime Association to Meet at SCI," "Institute Name Change Announced by Board of Managers," "Welcome," "Fall Curriculum of Roosevelt Institute of Maritime Studies Offers Three New Courses for Shorebased Personnel," "Recipe for Shark Steak," "Sea Impressions," "Admiral Mahan and the Institute"
The Lookout 1978 November (Vol. 69, No. 8)
Includes "The Gallant Ladies of New York Harbor Part I," "Third Triennial ICMA Conference A Resounding Success," "A Book of Remembrance," "Skriv Hjem," "Old Salt," "Arm Chair Shopping," "A Paeon for Thanksgiving"
The Lookout 1978 December (Vol. 69, No. 9)
Includes "A Holiday Message," "A Very Mixed Bag," "Christmas at Sea," "…Good Enough for Seamen," "Communion at Christmas," "Silent Night," "White Christmas," "Operation Christmas Box… A Journey of the Heart," "What is a Seaman," "In December"
Includes "SCI's Role in Foreign Relations," "Mississippi's Distaff Lighthouse," "Staff and Board Members Re-examine Their Goals During Lenten Season," British Missions Honors SCI's Board President," Foreign Service Trainees Guests at Institute," "Six Columbian [Colombian] Seamen Survive Long Ordeal," Original Watercolor of SCI's Roof & Tower Presented by Standard Oil"
Working on barges alongside his family transporting war materials as a 10 year old during WWII
Waiting for a tug, painting the barge gray, dim-out during wartime
Trading coal dust for food, pigeon stew, rationing
Shipping from Norfolk, VA to New England, transporting different cargo
Port of New York, buying groceries in Red Hook
Threat of submarines from Norfolk to New York
Death of his brother Billy, his tug MENOMINEE sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Virginia in March 1942, survivors picked up by NOTHERN SUN
Effort to track down records of women and children on coastwise tugs, attempt to get Congress to recognize barge seamen as veterans
Difficulty in getting access to records from the National Maritime Center
Lack of awareness about the merchant marine, barge seamen
History of barge vessels and barge companies
Work with the National Archives to get recognition for women who worked on barges
95202 and the merchant marine's fight for recognition as veterans
His mother and sister's attempt to get sea papers in New York in 1942
Enters Merchant Marine in March 1943; Training at Sheepshead Bay
Childhood and youth; BERKSHIRE carrying coal coastwise
Sinking of the LEMUEL BURROWS in New York Harbor
At “coffin corner” in convoy from England, passes torpedoed crew from ship ahead of them in line
M AND J TRACY in October 1943, coastwise laker carrying coal
Getting paid, increasing wages; first house
Includes "Leisure Time Craft Classes," "Saga of the Bounty," "We Enter the Age of Teaching Machines," "Ports O'Call," "Down to the Sea…1890"
The Lookout 1963 July-August (Vol. 54, No. 6)
Includes "The Book of Moses," "SCI - Safe Harbor for Thriving Art Colony," "New York's Vanished Steamers," "International Club Log"
Includes "The Port Newark Story," "Oh Miss, Please Tell Me...," "The Amazing Squid," "There But For the Grace of God..."
The Lookout 1963 September (Vol. 54, No. 7)
Includes "Preparing for the Future," "Newark…Long a Port," "Taking SCI To The Tankers," "A Seamen Reminisces," "The Sea Monster"
The Lookout 1963 February-March (Vol. 54, No. 2)
Includes "Skiman or Seaman?," "Welcome Home, Lucky!," "The Lost Continent of Atlantis," "Favorite Port O'Call," "Down to the Sea…1890"
Includes "In Memoriam---USS Thresher," "All Hands Safe…At SCI," "Uncharted Space"
The Lookout 1963 October (Vol. 54, No. 8)
Includes "An Academic Environment," "Mother to Millions," "Christmas in October," "Why is a Ship Called a She," "Favorite Ports O'Call - Pago Pago," "Face Lift for an Old Man"
The Lookout 1963 November (Vol. 54, No. 9)
Includes "Only Five Grains of Corn," "Operation Sail," "20th Century Tarboys," "The Man Who Lived in a Whale," "We Gather Together"
The Lookout 1963 December (Vol. 54, No. 10)
Includes "Plum Duff Revisited," "Antarctic Christmas," "Mementos From Burl Ives," "Our 1963 Soccer Champs," "Tall Tales Seamen's Oil," "Christmas Out," "Christmas 1960 Indochina," "So Hallow'd Is Thy Name," "That Eventful Year…1936"
Includes entries from visitors to Coenties Slip, where SCI operated an outpost beginning in the 1850s and ending in 1906. Also included are entries from SCI's Missionary at Large, the Rev. Robert J. Walker. Of particular note is the marginalia and drawings of Alfred Montgomery, address 34 Pike Street, where SCI operated an outpost from 1869-1906.
Includes entries from visitors to Coenties Slip, where SCI operated an outpost beginning in the 1850s and ending in 1906. Also included are entries from SCI's Missionary at Large, the Rev. Robert J. Walker and entries from Walker's successor, the Rev. Isaac Maguire, beginning on June 16, 1872.
Example Census Record - 52 Market Street, 1900
Includes "'J. Hooker Hamersley' Dedicated", "The Institute Helps the Unemployed Sailor", "Harbor Voyages", "Considering Mother" and "The Scourge of Sentiment."
The Lookout February 1915 (Vol. 5 No. 10)
Includes "While Ben Slept", "The Bewildering Changes", "Barber Shop Taken", "Chris the Cautious", "A Lookout Reader Writes", "Recent Contributions", "They Make the Inquiry", "Snow Shovellers", "An Arctic Explorer", "Senor Tuzzio is Ordained", "What Petersin Wanted", "No Ships' Concerts", "The Fate of Jonassen", "German Sailors" and "Tim Makes a Bad Bargain."
Includes "Luncheon to City Fathers", "Quick Action", "Chapel Chairs", "A Concert Vaudeville", "Fountains All Taken", "Staff Room 1205 ($250.00)", "Making Statistics Alluring", "Crew of the 'Chester'", "The News About Ivor", "Recent Subscriptions", "Children Dance for Seamen", "A Vowel Sound", "Music and Drama" and "Room 1208 Taken."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Steamship Companies and Agents Subscribing to $150,000 Campaign", "Disappointing 'Sciencers'", "Music and Drama", "Alan Tells the Truth", "In the War", "Prinz Eitel Friedrich Prisoners", "The Musical Soul of Simeon", "Holy Week Services", "Soda Fountain $1500.00", "A Subtle Vocabulary", "Chapel Chairs", "William Douglas Sloane", "Baggage Department $2.000", "Pomfret School Room 1205" and "Festival Choir Concert."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Last Minute News: $105,800", "$10,000 Additional!!", "Resolutions", "Chapel Chairs", "Ice Cream Maker Taken", "Class Room Taken", "Officers of the Fleet to Inspect the Institute", "Hafiz Refuses Money", "A Japanese Dance for Apprentices", "Confirmation Class" and "Gifts or Memorials."
Includes "Subscriptions to Building Fund!", "Soda Fountain Made a Gift", "The Affable Manuel", "Altar Flowers", "An Unusual Concert", "Music and Drama", "The Occupation of Olaf", "Flowers for Anniversary", "Henrik Gets His Dunnage", "The Chapel Bell", "The Apprentices Entertain", "Jim Protests" and "The Singing Seamen"
Includes "Subscriptions to the Building Fund", "Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield Receives His Doctors' Degree", "The New Slop Chest. Made a Gift", "A Gift in Memory", "He Tells His Name", "Books and Magazines", "Mark Settles His Accounts", "Phonograph Records", "Tim Reckons Time", "The Generic John", "Waiting for a Tow Line", "Concerts for 1915-16", "The Thrifty Evan", "The Effect of Culture", "684 Seamen Employed", "That Best Policy" and "Hunting Mr. Hoftyser."
Includes "Subscriptions to the Building Fund", "Gift of Reredos", "Magazines for the Trenches", "Picnic on the Lawn", "Gift of $5,000", "He Leaves His Money", "The End of Mark", "House Clinic Equipment", "Ices in the Hospital", "Gift of Vegetable Paring Machine", "A Taste for Pink Froth", "Piano and Pictures", "Gift of a Clock", "Paying Back", "A Full House", "A Recommendation", "Ice Cream Money" and "Baking Machine $300.00."
The Lookout September 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 5)
Includes "Gift from Rockefeller Foundation", "Gift of the Late J. Pierpont Morgan", "Founders and Benefactors", "Financial Statement", "To Become a Member", "Subscription to the Clinic", "The Churches and Our New Chapel", "An Old Mortgage", "Recent Subscriptions", "The Optimism of Paul", "More Plumbing" and "A Pianola for Lobby."
Includes "For Good", "Where the Launch Helps", "Old Clothing. Shoes", "Saving by Force", "Writing", "Noon-Day Talks", "Chapel Services", "The Problem", "Tea for Officers", "Drinking Water", "All for Etiquette", "African Utopia" and "That Well Known Free Masonry."
The Lookout November 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 7)
Includes "Exhibit at Synod Hall", "Educational Talks", "Strephon Leaves a Letter", "The Price of Luxury", "In the Hospitals", "First Aid Lectures", "About Temperance", "Songs by Seamen", "Drinking Water", "War Times", "Furniture for Stage" and "Succeeding as a Stowaway."
The Lookout December 1915 (Vol. 6 No. 8)
Includes "On the Corner", "A Woman's Prayer for Peace", "Special Helper's Room Made a Memorial", "Illuminated Sign", "Mr. Herbert Barber", "Resolutions", "At Grand Central Palace", "Programme of Entertainments", "For His Birthday", "A Meeting on the Boat", "The Piano Problem", "Joint Conference" and "New Whistle."