Box 2
Container
Contains 6 Results:
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
Postcards Collected by Frederick E. Bidgood, circa 1938-1939
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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:
circa 1938-1939
Program from Pensacola's Banquet for the Empire State I, 1940
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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:
1940
School Year Book, 1937
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
This folder contains the yearbook for the Class of 1937. It was decided by the cadet corps to publish the year book in the form of a cruise record and therefore this yearbook has a different title and format then other yearbooks.
Dates:
1937
Rescue of the Spanish Fishing Steamer the "Gumersindo", 1933
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
During the 1933 cruise of the Empire State I the the crew successfully rescued a distressed Spanish fishing boat. Included in this folder are documents recounting the the details of the rescue as well as photographs of the distressed ship.
Dates:
1933
Student Lecture Notes of Cadet Frederick E. Bidgood, circa 1937-1939
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5-7
Scope and Contents
These folders contain the notes taken by Frederick E. Bidgood while he was a cadet aboard the Empire State I. There are 2 notebooks and several loose sheets of paper. The notebooks are titled "Seamanship Notes" and Rope and Cordage".
Dates:
circa 1937-1939