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Includes sepia portrait photographs of Rev. Robert J. Walker, chaplain of the Floating Church of Our Saviour from 1872-1890.

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Includes 1 black and white photograph of employees in SCI's Ways and Means Department. The Ways and Means Department solicited contributions that enabled SCI's operations.

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00:00 Introduction, forms
06:18 Enters Merchant Marine in March 1943
06:36 Training at Sheepshead Bay
07:20 Childhood and youth
07:50 Berkshire carrying coal coastwise
12:18 Sinking of the Lemuel Burrows in New York Harbor
13:23 Nashaba…

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On the Nashaba carrying artillery shells to England

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On the M and J Tracy, trained to use a faulty gun

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Decision to sail on the Winfred L. Smith north to Murmansk

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Escort on the Murmansk run, turns 21, unloads narrow gauge locomotives to take supplies to Leningrad

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On the liberty ship Robert L. Vann, hits a mine on the Scheldt River near Antwerp

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Before the mine hits, cutting the lifeboats, out on the North Sea

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Picked up by a Canadian PT boat

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