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Passenger ships. These ships you could get over to europe if you just count the time in passage in maybe 14 days but a jet could take you over in eight to ten hours. It certainly wasnt as luxurious. You didnt get the kind of attention or the kind of food, but were interested as a people in convenience more than luxury and what happens is that most of the american passenger liners begin to sell off ships and good out of business. The excambian was put into mothballs on the hudson not far from west point and stayed there this was 1959 said there up until 1964 or 65. Thats when this new school in texas, this school i teach at, which was then called the Texas Maritime Academy today its texas a m university at galveston thats when the school began and it needed a training ship because it was a merchant marine academy. The students who went there trained to become third mates, those are the navigators or third assistant engineers the people who run the power plant. Their training included lo

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