Volume 30

Scope and Contents

This logbook ends on July 15, 1931. On that day the U.S.S. Newport was decommissioned as the training ship for the New York State Merchant Marine Academy and the U.S.S. Empire State became the new training ship.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the logbooks from the U.S.S Newport, one of the schoolships used by the New York 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 various...