Image: School for Sailors NGM-v31-p351
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Description: SCHOOL FOR SAILORS, NAVAL TRAINING STATION: Newport, Rhode Island. Instead of working at a blackboard with chalk, these pupils solve their problems on a wooden rail with rope. The course in elementary seamanship conducted in this rigging loft includes a mastery of the subject of knotting and splicing.
Title: School for Sailors NGM-v31-p351
Credit: 300 ppi scan of the National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31 (1917), page 351. (From a photo essay entitled "THE CALL TO THE COLORS".)
Author: United States Navy Department.
Permission: public domain (pre-1923).
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