The Purser–Pharmacist Mate in the American Merchant Marine in the Second World War

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded in part through a Faculty Research and Creative Endeavours Grant from the Office of Research and Innovation at Central Michigan University. The author would like to thank the anonymous referees for their input.

Notes

1 Martin and Brown, An Essential Service Well Delivered, 70.

2 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 173, 194.

3 For a comparison of wages between personnel in the United States Navy and Merchant Marine during the Second World War visit http://www.usmm.org/salary.html.

4 Killinger, Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration, 13.

5 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 8.

6 Killinger, Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration, 19.

7 Kemp (ed.), Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, 675–6.

8 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 9.

9 Kemp (ed.), Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, 676.

10 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 9.

11 Ibid., 6.

12 Lane, Ships for Victory, 21.

13 Ibid., 1–3.

14 Ibid., 2–3, 10.

15 Ibid., 10–11.

16 Oral history with James O’Hara, Michigan State University, 1987. The documentary film Hannibal Victory (Washington, US Maritime Commission, 1945) provided visual proof of the diversity of merchant mariners. In his book, Tom O’Reilly recounted his concern over the probability of disaster before he became a purser for the American South African Line. O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 4–5.

17 Killinger, Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration, 13.

18 Martin and Brown, An Essential Service Well Delivered, 71–3.

19 Hill, Purser’s Manual and Marine Store-keeping, 4.

20 Ibid., 4–6.

21 Ibid., 6.

22 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 8.

23 Ibid., 9.

24 Ibid., 91, 134–5.

25 Ibid., 96.

26 Ibid., 103.

27 Ibid., 85–7.

28 Killinger, Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration,15.

29 O’Reilly, Purser’s Progress, 185.

30 Killinger, Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration, 3, 16, 35–6.

31 Ibid., 16.

32 Ibid., 20.

33 Ibid., 321–3.

34 Martin and Brown, An Essential Service Well Delivered, 57–8.

35 The United State Merchant Marine at War, 45–6.