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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original Caption: Training apprentices for U.S. Merchant Marine.  Safety at sea depends often upon the Merchant Marine apprentices preparedness to meet emergencies.  The men are given instruction in such emergency work as manning life boats, the shooting of life lines for the breeches buoy by means of the Kyle gun and in fire fighting.  Shows a body of apprentices learning how to properly direct a stream of water from a ship's hose.</li></ul><p>Date Taken: 5/21/1919
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Photographer: Western Newspaper Union Co., N.Y.</div>
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Western Newspaper Union Co., N.Y.</div>
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