Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0156Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is sailors in uniform standing in formation with rifles, one sailor is instructing the others how to hold the weapons. Above the image "W203 (Star)" is printed, below the image "19074 "Parade Rest" - Naval Training Station." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
19074
"PARADE REST" - NAVAL TRAINING STATION
Early in the war the United States government opened a large number of naval training schools along the coast and Great Lakes. There were three kinds of these naval training schools. The Navigational schools were for training officers in navigation and for men who had had some sea experience. There were forty-one of these schools, the largest being the Massachusetts Institue of Technology in Boston. It required six weeks to complete the course and if the student passed he was entitled, after two months of sea experience, to a license of second or thrid class mate. From the beginnning of the war until April 1, 1918, over 1500 men had been graduated from this school.
The schools for engineers were opened to men who had had six months' sea service, or who were firemen or engineers. These schools graduated 1200 men within ten months after war was declared. Soon there were over 5000 licensed engineers in the service. The principal schools were located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Hopkins Institute at Baltimore, Md., University of Washington, Seattle, and Seaman's Church Institue, New York. The third class of schools were those training sailors and men to man vessels. Here the men were put through a vigorous course of training and were taught everything that would be useful to them from shooting to swimming. Gun drill formed an important part of their training.
The navy was manned entirely by volunteers. In early June, 1918, all navy recruiting records were broken because of the activity of German submarines off the Atlantic coast and also on account of the wonderufl work of the marines in France.
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