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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original Caption: Training of apprentices for U.S. Merchant Marine.  Under direction of able seamen the Merchant Marine apprentices on U.S. Shipping Board Training vessels learn how to splice ropes to tie all knots commonly used on board ship.</li></ul><p>Date Taken: 5/21/1919
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Photographer: Western Newspaper Union Co., N.Y.</div>
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