Box 11

Contents of Collection This collection includes several different types of registers kept by the administrators of the New York Nautical School (now SUNY Maritime College) in the early years of the institution. The Admissions Registers contain information regarding all the students who were admitted to the school between 1875 through 1944. The information that can be found in these volumes include names of students, dates of admission, ages, students’ place of birth, birth dates, as well as the height, weight and...

Scope and Contents This register is a ledger where statistics were recorded for the graduates of the New York Nautical School (now SUNY Maritime College). The register lists the student’s full name, entry number, date of admission, and date of graduation, as well as grades for overall school course, sail handling, steering, use of lead, activity aloft, navigation, deportment, palm and needle, and later practical seamanship, running lights, and engineering. Data includes information on the boys’ age at...