Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-06
SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS
OF MERCHANT MARINE
State Council OF Defense Announces
Minimum Qualifications for
Entrance. !,
SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING
Those Applying rs Navigating Of
fcers Must Have Had Experiences
on Ocean or Coastwise Steam or
Sailing Vessels.

great deal Of interest has been
manifested by young men, especially In
the Tidewater section of Virginia, in
the training schools being conducted
for those who want to become officers
in the new merchant marine. a
The Virginia Council of Defense now
has available full instructions as to
qualifications for those seeking such
positions. Only Americans may become
officers In the new fleet The United
States Shipping Board will take In hand
any applicant with proper sea expert
ence ana give him the necessary FREQ
training In navigation to qualify him
for his new position. at any one OF its
schools.
New England: AT Harvard and Tech
nology. New Bedford. Portland. Rock
land, Machias and Boothbay Harbor.
A second chain Of the schools embraces
Greenport, l.. l.; Atlantic City, Cape
May, Crisheld. Md; Philadelphia. Bal
timore and Norfolk. a third will en-
brace Charleston. Jacksonville. Mobile.
New Orleans and Galveston. and a
fourth Los Angeles. San Francisco and
Portland Ore. Schools will be ,estab-
Iished later at points on the Great
Lakes
The engineering schools which
opened July 2, are at Institute OF Tech
nology, Cambridge, where $50 men
month can be handled In class: Ste
VEINS Institute. Hoboken. n. j.: Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore; The
Case School OF Applied Science. Cieve-
land; the Armour Institute. Chicago;
Washington University. Seattle. and
Tulane University. New Orleans.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
FOR ENTERING SCHOOL
The minimum qualifications. under
the new rules. for entering the school
for navigating ofncers, are as fol-
lows:
/. At least two years experience in
the deck department of ocean or coast
wise steam vessels.
2. At least three years experience
in the deck department OF ocean or
coastwise sailing vessels.
2. At least three years experience In
the deck department of sailing vessels
engaged In the ocean or coastwise fish.
cries.
4. At least one years experience AZ
mate OF steam vessel engaged In the
ocean or coastwise fisheries.
S. Two years experience as master
or chief mate of ocean or coastwisc
sailing vessel OF 200 gross tons or over.
S. Two years. experience rs master or
pilot OF lake. bay or sound steam YES
sels.
IA graduate from the seamanship
class Of nautical school ship.
The minimum qualifications for en-
tering the engineering school are:
/. At least two years experience as
oiler or water tender. or combined ex-
perience OF two years In these positions
on ocean or coastwise steam vessel.
2. a graduate from the engineering
class of nautical school ship.
IA graduate In mechanical cngi-
frn n
Of technology, with three months sea
experience.
"A stationery engineer in full
charge OF 1.000-horse power plant
8. A locomotive engineer who has bad
six months experience in the engine
department OF ocean or coastwise YES
sells.
6. A 1ourneyman machinist who has
been engaged in the construction or re-
pairing of marine steam engines.
I. An apprentice to the machinists'
trade who has been six months on a
steam vessel.
s. Engineers of lake, bay. sound or
river steamers.
9. At least three years as fireman on
an ocean or coastwise steam vessel
Only American citizens are admitted
TO the schools. At the end Of the school
service the student Is to be given sea
training on pay. There Is no enlist
ment. as in the navy, but II accepted
for training an applicant is expected
to sign on for the merchant marine
where wages at present are attractiveiy
high.
Applicants for places in the merchant
service are being received at the rate
OF several hundred daily by Henry
Howard, director of recruiting for tho
United States Shipping Board, Custom
House. Boston, Mass.