Empire State I (Training Ship)
Organization
Dates
- Usage: 1931 - 1941
Historical Note
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Empire State I Logbooks, 1931-1941
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CA-RG1-0005
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the logbooks from the U.S.S Empire State one of the training ships used by the New York State Nautical School (now SUNY Maritime College) to train young men for the merchant marines and the naval reserves. A ship’s logbook is a daily record of the ship’s course, speed and location. Navigational, piloting and other notable events occurring in and around the ship are also recorded in a ship’s logbook. Logbooks serve as a reminder to the officers of the deck of their...
Dates:
1931 - 1941
Empire State I Records, 1927-1979
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CA-RG1-0003
Scope and Contents
The Empire State I was used by the New York State Merchant Marine Academy (now SUNY Maritime College) as its training ship from 1931 until 1941. The ship was used to train young men for careers in the Merchant Marines and the Naval Reserves. Materials in this collection include documents regarding the acquisition of the Empire State, materials recounting of the Empire State’s rescue of a Spanish fishing boat as well as films, transparencies and students notebooks donated by Frederick E....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1927 - 1940
Phylipp Dilloway Oral History Interview
File
Identifier: CA-RG15-0029
Scope and Contents
In the interview Phyl talks about his life leading up to his Maritime career, his time spent at the New York Maritime Academy from the Summer of 1944 to his graduation in October 1946, the people he knew while he was at the Academy, his time on the training ship USMSTS American Pilot (also known as Empire State I), and the differences between today's mariners and mariners in the 1940s.
Dates:
2011-03-10
Phylipp Dilloway Papers, 1946-2021
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AP-0020
Contents of Collection
The Phylipp Dilloway Papers contain materials from his time at sea on the training ship USMSTS American Pilot (also known as the Empire State I), his later career as a consultant for Dunlap & Associates, research materials associated with his book "Class of October 1946", and other materials from his career and personal life. These materials include correspondences, photographs, reports, a journal he kept when at sea, two bridge coats he wore while at sea, and other artifacts....
Dates:
circa 1946-2017
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- Subject
- Nautical training-schools 3
- Alumni and alumnae 2
- New York (N.Y.) 2
- New York (State) 2
- Sailors 2
- Logbooks 1
- Merchant Marine-United States 1
- Navigation 1
- Shipping 1
- World War II 1
- coats (garments) 1
- diaries 1
- oral histories (document genre) 1 ∧ less
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