Official Maritime College Graduate Thread

bmac

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Throughout my career, as well as in my boating experiences, I often meet fellow Maritime College alumni. I know there are a few on CSR and I'm sure there are others here I haven't met. I even found a classmate of mine on here that I hadn't seen in 30 years. I'm class of 1982 graduate of NY Maritime, BEME, USCG 3rd AE, never sailed on my license. Let's hear from all of you that graduated from any of the Maritime colleges, or academies, as some like to be called. NY, MA, ME, CA, TX and KP. Year, degree and license.
 
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brian , to add to your thread, the Marine Society of the City of NY (im first VP) is holding their second inter-academy Monomoy competition on sept 14th this year. we had cadets from Maine / Mass / Kings point / USCG academy , and this year hope Cal and TX can send some. was a great time and would be a chance for alumni boaters and non-boaters to visit campus , see the museum , and enjoy the brand new docks.
 
Brian, I am a KP graduate, class of '83... I also did not sail on my engineering license. I did spend 26 years in the Navy Reserve. In 1983 it was very hard to get a job at sea, and it all worked out. It takes a special person to sail on Merchant Ships. I have some fond and not so fond memories of my year at sea...
 
Brian, I am a KP graduate, class of '83... I also did not sail on my engineering license. I did spend 26 years in the Navy Reserve. In 1983 it was very hard to get a job at sea, and it all worked out. It takes a special person to sail on Merchant Ships. I have some fond and not so fond memories of my year at sea...

Rod, I've worked with quite a few of your classmates and others you probably know from your time at KP. I've only worked for one KP graduate, he had been the original (and maybe only) 3rd AE on the NS Savannah. I worked for him during construction and commissioning of a nuclear power plant in NY. I now have a couple of KP and Maritime grads working for me, with the newest being a 2018 MA Maritime grad. I know there are more than just you, me and Domer on CSR, they must just be lurking.
 
engine dept on NS Savannah must have been one helluva gig! one of my favorite ships
 
My Dad was KP class of 44... He was torpedoed 4 times during WWII, and sailed as a Chief Engineer on a Sun Oil T2 tanker when he was 26 years old. He stabbed in Africa by a ship mate, was washed off a ship with a wave (he climbed back up because some one left a line over the side of the tanker)... When he climbed back up he yelled at the mate who left a line over the side. He was the first US ship in Japan after the war ended. My experiences weren't as interesting as my Dad's, but I was lucky not to be killed several times... My did not own a Sea Ray, but he enjoy sailing small boats. My Grand dad was in WWI in the Coast Guard, and he owned a motor boat... So I am a Son of a Son of a Sailor...
 
Rod

I, too, am the son of a son of a sailor, though my father's and grandfather's experiences were not quite as harrowing as your father's. My father was in naval aviation when I was born and after returning from assignment in San Diego was assigned to the exotic location of Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station in Brooklyn, NY. I've been told he commuted to his station until he left the Navy when I was 2. I wanted to fly in the Navy but less than 20/20 vision in the early 80's was an immediate dis-qualifier. I have a picture of me at 11 months old with my mother 8 months pregnant with my sister in the cockpit of my father and grandfather's 32 foot Chris Craft, med moored in Jamaica Bay, NY. I guess it's in the genes.
 
Didn't have the "right stuff" for admission to the USMMA in two tries from Florida (also rejected from USAFA and USNA). While working in a Ft Lauderdale shipyard I learned about the Calhoon School, applied. and graduated 3.5 years later. I had active seaman's papers from late 1972 till about 2010. I sailed on my license steam and diesel as an engineer in the MEBA from 1977-2007 when I retired. I haven't worked since. I was a full union member for 29 or the 30 years I sailed. last ship I was 2nd Engr on the SeaLand Quality. I shipped mostly out of Jacksonville and Charleston, but a few times from Miami and Houston. I worked for at least 4 steamship companies that went out of business or scrapped their fleet and was unemployed at least 18 times.I also enjoyed taking about 6 months off each year for 30 years :) ! Fortunately my union has a self funded defined benefit pension plan and retiree medical. I would do it all over again....absolutely !
 

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