Number of Mariners Trained by War Shipping Administration

Cadet Corps
7,291
Maritime Service Officer Schools
21,988
State Maritime Adademies
2,707
Officers, total
31,986

Miscellaneous

Unlicensed seamen, all ratings
150,734
Radio operators
7,727
Junior assistant purser-Hospital corpsmen
5,034
Junior marine officers for the Transportation Corps
U. S. Army Service Forces
2,588
Deck, engine, and steward upgrade schools
36,620
License refresher schools
996
Turbo-electric schools
3,653
High-pressure and geared turbine schools
642
Diesel engineers
1,066
6-weeks' engineers
2,024
River-pilot trainees
127
Total, Miscellaneous
211,111

Special schools graduates:

Barrage balloon
7,980
Visual Signaling
10,001
Safety at sea
1,316
Total, Special schools
19,297

 

Grand total, graduates*
262,494


* Many mariners graduated from more than one program

Source:
The United States Merchant Marine At War, Report of the War Shipping Administrator to the President . Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15, 1946

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