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The apprentice program, Luce hoped, would give the Navy the opportunity to make good sailors during their formative years which, in the long run, would provide better trained and more disciplined sailors in the enlisted ranks. The apprentice program ended with the establishment of the Recruit Training Center at Naval Station Great Lakes in 1911 ...
The brig USS Somers had been newly constructed for a naval "apprentice program" aimed at resolving a serious shortage of manpower for the Navy. It was intended to take children considered “the sweepings of the street,” including orphans and the poor of a nation ravaged by a long economic depression and train them as Navy personnel.
The Naval Aviation College Program granted high school graduates between the ages of 17 and 24 a subsidized college education in a scientific or technical major for two years in exchange for enlistment as Apprentice Seaman (AS), USNR, and a commitment to serve in the navy for 5 years. Students received free tuition, fees and book costs and $50 ...
The U.S. Navy League Cadet Corps (also known as the United States Naval League Cadet Corps or "NLCC") is a junior version of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (NSCC) program developed for younger cadets, aged 11 through 13, under the auspices of the Navy League of the United States. The mission of the NLCC is to train cadets about the ...
Floating dry dock, Mare Island Navy Yard, ca. 1854. This was the first drydock on the Pacific coast; built in New York, shipped in sections around Cape Horn, arrived in San Francisco August 1852. On 15 January 1852, Secretary of the Navy William A. Graham ordered a Naval Commission to select a site for a naval yard on the Pacific Coast.
All specially-built yard net tenders were reclassified in 1944 as auxiliary net laying ships, see List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy § Net laying ships (AN) for the reclassification result. The 24 impressed tugboats were reclassed as Net tender tugs (YNT), later some as tugboats (YTB or YTL).
College graduates, recruited directly from civilian life, were placed in special rate of OCSA (E-2), "officer candidate seaman apprentice." They wore the seaman apprentice rate with blocked letter "OC" over rate insignia, while prior service candidates (referred to as "fleet men") wore their enlisted rate with a blocked letter "OC" over their ...
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies along the southern boundary of Maine on the Piscataqua River. Founded on June 12, 1800, PNS is U.S. Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard.