page_title: United States Merchant Marine Academy
section_title: American Merchant Marine Museum
hierarchical_section_title: United States Merchant Marine Academy / American Merchant Marine Museum
context_page_description: The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a United States service academy located in Kings Point, New York. It trains officers to serve in United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, and the transportation industry. Midshipmen are trained in different fields such as marine engineering, navigation, ship's administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
context_section_description: The USMMA in Kings Point, New York is the home of the American Merchant Marine Museum. The museum houses:
  A learning center which is open to the regiment and the public
  The academy's collection of maritime art and artifacts
  Exhibits, including:
  The only known back-acting engine still in existence, that of the former gunboat USS Ranger
  The National Maritime Hall of Fame (the only permanent exhibit of its kind in the nation), which honors people and ships important to American oceanic, coastal, inland waterways, and Great Lakes shipping. Inductees into the Hall of Fame must be deceased, or sunk or scrapped, for at least five years. Only one person and one ship are inducted into the Hall of Fame each year. The Hall inducted its first set of members in or about 1982.
  Among the museum's many items are the world's largest collection of navigation and nautical instruments, and the only extensive selection of ship's china, on display anywhere in the world. In addition, one of the five surrender swords presented by the Japanese to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at the conclusion of World War II is housed there.
  Images from the museum and from the academy can be seen at the Photographic Catalog of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy website.
caption: Maritime Service recruiting poster from WWII.
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