Unit Course in Marine Electricity, 1942, was created during the peak of the massive shipbuilding campaign of WW II. During the war a large number of workers were trained in new trades to meet the increased demand for new labor. This was one of the courses created to prepare those new workers.
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UNIT COURSE IN MARINE ELECTRICITY
Revised with Supplement
Prepared by
National Defense Training Program
Bureau of Trade and Industrial Education
of the
California State Department of Education
California State Department of Education
Sacramento, 1942
COMMITTEE ON
PREPARATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL
Marion A. Grosse
Special Supervisor for National Defense Training, and
Co-ordinator of Committee on Instructional Material
Employees of Moore Dry Dock Company
Emmett Rogers, Quarterman, Electrical Department
Fred Jones, Foreman, Electrical Department
Employees of Todd-California Shipbuilding Corporation
Jas. J. O'Neill, Electrical Engineer
Karl Sickenberger, Foreman
Employee of General Engineering and Dry Dock Company
Walt Smithen, Chief Electrician
Instructors in the Oakland Public Schools
Loren Stevens, formerly with the Mare Island Navy Yard
Harry Kurt, formerly with the General Engineering and
Dry Dock Company
I. M. Duncan, formerly with the Western Pipe and Steel
Company
Representatives of Electricians Local Unions Numbers 6,
180, 302, 595, and 617; San Francisco, Vallejo, Richmond,
Oakland, and San Mateo, respectively
H. J. Delaney, Naval Inspector
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PREFACE
The safety of our country is dependent in
large part, during this period of national emergency,
upon the production of instruments of warfare that
are essential to defense. The training of a great
number of individuals for occupations essential to
national defense is, therefore, vitally important at
this particular time.
The defense training program is maintained
under the provisions of Public Law No. 146 by state
departments of education in co-operation with the
United States Office of Education, through L. S. Hawkins,
Director of Vocational Training for Defense Workers.
Moneys are available to the states to train large
numbers of personnel in defense occupations to meet
the demands of local industries having defense contracts. Up-to-date instructional materials are
necessary in order that this training may be most
effective.
The California Plan of Vocational Education in and for Occupations Essential to National
Defense has made provision, therefore, for the development and publication of instructional materials
in defense occupations as a part of the state program.
California is actively engaged in training
for shipbuilding, which is one of the most important
industries in the defense program. This Unit Course
in Marine Electricity has been developed by members
of the staff of the Bureau of Trade and Industrial
Education who are charged with the responsibility of
preparing needed instructional materials for this
program. Employees of the General Engineering and
Dry Dock Company of Alameda, the Moore Dry Dock
Company of Oakland, and the Todd-California Shipbuilding
Corporation of Richmond acted as a committee for the
development of this material. This committee received
assistance and advice from H. J. Delaney, Naval
Inspector, and from the Electricians Local Unions
Numbers 6, 180, 302, 595, and 617 of San Francisco,
Vallejo, Richmond, Oakland, and San Mateo, respectively.
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Marion A. Grosse, Special Supervisor for
National Defense Training, co-ordinated the work of
the committee.
The material was edited and prepared for
publication by the Special Supervisor for National
Defense Training in Charge of Publications,
Margaret McKieneavy.
The fine co-operation of the Moore Dry Dock
Company in the defense training program is appreciated.
This revised edition includes a supplement covering certain information applicable to
naval practices.
J. C. BESWICK
Chief, Bureau of Trade and
Industrial Education; and
State Director of Vocational
Training for Defense Workers