AAC-9866

Crewmen from the Military Sea Transportation Service undergoing training on Treasure Island

circa 1914

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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Folder: S.F. Islands-Treasure-1957.
On back: "Crewmen from the Military Sea Transportation Service, Pacific Area, undergoing training at the Fire Fighting School, Treasure Island, California, prepare to enter and control a burning compartment. Military Sea Transportation Service is presently engaged in a program of instruction for merchant marine crews, to improve the efficiency in preventing sea disasters. MSTS realizes the increasing needs of America's Merchant Marine and instruction given to crews of commercial ships will include emergency damage repairs, atomic warfare defense and fire fighting, the essentials of modern seamanship. OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH. PHOTO NO. MSTS-2-4760-3-57".

brn: .b10247178

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