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Coast Guard officer inspect lifeboats and equipment for ship's safety in the United States.

Life boats are dropped by a crane in the United States to confirm their strength and integrity. An inspecting officer watches the dropping of the life boats. The officer inspects equipment for ship's safety. A lantern is placed in the equipment. A fully loaded lifeboat is tested for sea worthiness. Men intentionally try to lean to one side and tip lifeboat to confirm good performance. Men observe and performance is inspected. American Merchant Marine Institute officer Frank J. Taylor speaks in his office, seated behind his desk. A woman secretary or stenographer transcribes his words on paper for the record.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058113
Licensing of Merchant Marine seamen and officers by the U.S. Coast Guard

Chart shows number of Merchant Marine seamen increasing as World War 2 progresses. Agents of the Coast Guard, the U.S. Maritime Commission, and the Public Health Service collaborate to assure fitness of Merchant Marine seamen. Some are seen being given physical exams by a physician. A prospective seaman demonstrates his skill with ropes. Coastguardsman observes skills of a candidate seaman at the wheel of a ship. A candidate receiving his Merchant Seaman's Certificate from the Coast Guard. Officers enter the Marine License Examination Room. Inside, men are seen taking exams to qualify for licenses as Masters, Mates, Engineers, and Pilots. Merchant Marine seamen being sworn in. Licensed seamen engineers being finger printed. Coast Guard officers supervise the signing of Shipping Articles (contracts between masters and crewmen). A line of seamen waiting to sign on to a ship. Coast Guard offices on shore where seamen may sign on to a ship. Seamen receiving pay under supervision of the Coast Guard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058114
Merchant seamen try on gas masks and life jackets, and participate in a life boat drill in the United States.

A U.S. Coast Guard officer boards a ship for inspection in the United States. Merchant seamen try on gas masks and life jackets. Chains of lifeboats are unattached from the ship. The seamen get into the lifeboats and perform a life boat drill.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058115
Coast Guard perform complete inspections of Merchant ships

Animated chart illustrates points included in annual Coast Guard inspections of Commercial ships. Coast Guard officers examine safety equipment on the deck of a merchant vessel. Seamen open safety equipment on a lifeboat, under as Coast Guard inspector looks on. Coast Guard inspector measures length of a life boat oar and checks its strength. Life jackets are examined for deterioration and date-stamped. Wartime escape hatch is inspected. Seaman demonstrates using it to exit in emergency. Marker lights are inspected. Inspectors examine the ship's Lyle gun (for firing a line during rescues) and its gun powder. Seamen empty liquid fire extinguishers so they can be re-charged. Fire-fighting nozzles are measured and fire hoses are tested. (One springs a leak at a connection.) Inspectors conduct hydrostatic tests of the ship's boilers and then inspect interior of a boiler. View of inspector climbing out of a boiler. A ship in dry dock for inspection is also inspected by the Coast Guard, at the same time. Inspectors examining ships screws and hull thickness. Inspectors deep in hull compartments of the ship. View of Certificate of Inspection being completed. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058116
Coast Guard vessels, buoys, lighthouses, helicopters and life saving service stations in the United States.

Opening scene shows an animated map of the United States and its inland waterways. An extremely long barge assembly is seen moving along a waterway, with industrial plant on shore in background. Another view of barges being pushed, View from a ship passing a city skyline. A Coast Guard ship passing an inland passenger ship in icy waters. View from bow of the Coast Guard ship moving through the ice. he U.S. Coast Guard side paddlewheel river tender, "Willow" is seen docked on the Mississippi River. Black smoke is rising from one of her funnels. A team of men works at a river bank, installing an aid to navigation. View of another such aid. A Coast Guard riverboat for installing and maintaining navigation aids, moving on a river. Closeup of a Coastguardsman wearing flotation vest, on deck. A buoy being raised by a crane on the ship. Glimpse of a buoy floating in the water. A new buoy being lowered from the ship into the water. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching as the buoy is set in place. View from deck of ship as the buoy is lowered overboard. Aerial view of a lighthouse. View of lighthouse from ground nearby. Glimpse of a Coast Guard station on a sandy shore. A Coast Guard boathouse with three rescue dories visible inside. A pontoon equipped Coast Guard helicopter taking off from a moving ship.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058117
U.S. Coast Guard engaged in International weather and ice patrols on the high seas

A large commercial freighter is seen beached and a long boat, containing a dozen or more Coastguardsmen, is pulling away from it. Next the men are seen running across the sand pulling a line from the ship. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching from ashore. . A seaman from the ship is transported via a bosun's chair to the shore. A group of Coastguardsmen weigh the taut rescue line down so the seaman can get out of the rig. View of a Coast Guard navigator at a table with a chart. A pair of dividers and a course plotter (plus his hat) are on the chart, which displays isobars. View from deck of a Coast Guard ship making way in rough seas. An anemometer rotating on the ship. Coast Guard crewman taking barometric pressure and other meteorological readings from instruments on the ship. Another, wearing a headset, monitors a real time chart being created from instruments on the ship. View from bow of Coast Guard ship engaged in International Ice Patrol, which charts and tracks icebergs to warn ships. Coast Guard crew member marking locations on a map. View of an iceberg. .

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058118