United States Coast Guard Academy: Difference between revisions
==History==
==History==
[[File:USRC Dobbin.jpg|thumb|260px| Historic photograph of the USRC ”Dobbin”]]
[[File:USRC Dobbin.jpg|thumb|260px| Historic photograph of the USRC ”Dobbin”]]
The roots of the academy lie in the ”’School of Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service”’, the school of the [[Revenue Cutter Service]]. The School of Instruction was established near [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] in 1876 and used [[USRC James C. Dobbin (1853)|USRC ”Dobbin”]] for its exercises. Captain John Henriques served as superintendent from founding until 1883. The one civilian instructor was Professor Edwin Emery, who taught mathematics, astronomy, English composition, French, physics, theoretical steam engineering, history, international law, and revenue law, among other subjects.U. S. Coast Guard Academy, “The Coast Guard Academy in Brief” (2009) The school was a two-year apprenticeship, in essence, supplemented by minimal classroom work. The student body averaged five to ten cadets per class. With changes to new training vessels, the school moved to [[Curtis Bay, Maryland]] in 1900 and to [[Fort Trumbull]] in 1910, a Revolutionary War–era Army installation in New London, Connecticut. In 1914, the school became the Revenue Cutter Academy, and then the Coast Guard Academy in 1915 with the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the [[United States Life Saving Service]] to form the U.S. Coast Guard.
The roots of the academy lie in the ”’School of Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service”’, the school of the [[Revenue Cutter Service]]. The School of Instruction was established near [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] in 1876 and used [[USRC James C. Dobbin (1853)|USRC ”Dobbin”]] for its exercises. Captain John Henriques served as superintendent from founding until 1883. The one civilian instructor was Professor Edwin Emery, who taught mathematics, astronomy, English composition, French, physics, theoretical steam engineering, history, international law, and revenue law, among other subjects.U. S. Coast Guard Academy, “The Coast Guard Academy in Brief” (2009) The school was a two-year apprenticeship, in essence, supplemented by minimal classroom work. The student body averaged five to ten cadets per class. With changes to new training vessels, the school moved to [[Curtis Bay, Maryland]] in 1900 and to [[Fort Trumbull]] in 1910, a Revolutionary War–era Army installation in New London, Connecticut. In 1914, the school became the Revenue Cutter Academy, and then the Coast Guard Academy in 1915 with the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the [[United States Life Saving Service]] to form the U.S. Coast Guard.
Land was purchased in New London on 31 July 1930 for the construction of the Coast Guard Academy. The 40-acre site was made up of two parcels from the Allyn and Payne estates and was purchased for $100,000. The $100,000 was not raised through a bond issue, as originally planned, but with a bank loan based on uncollected back taxes.{{cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Paul H.|title=The Academy at Fort Trumbull: Part Two 1920–1932|journal=The Bulletin|date=May–June 1970|volume=32|issue=3|page=25|url=http://www.cgaalumni.org/s/1043/index.aspx?sid=1043&gid=1&pgid=1999}} The contract was awarded to Murch Brothers Construction Company of St. Louis and ground was broken in January 1931 by Jean Hamlet, daughter of Rear Admiral [[Harry G. Hamlet]], Academy Superintendent from 1928 to 1932. On 15 May 1931, Treasury Secretary [[Andrew W. Mellon]] visited New London to lay the cornerstone of Hamilton Hall. Construction proceeded relatively on schedule and cadets moved in to the new buildings on 20 September 1932.
Land was purchased in New London on 31 July 1930 for the construction of the Coast Guard Academy. The 40-acre site was made up of two parcels from the Allyn and Payne estates and was purchased for $100,000. The $100,000 was not raised through a bond issue, as originally planned, but with a bank loan based on uncollected back taxes.{{cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Paul H.|title=The Academy at Fort Trumbull: Part Two 1920–1932|journal=The Bulletin|date=May–June 1970|volume=32|issue=3|page=25|url=http://www.cgaalumni.org/s/1043/index.aspx?sid=1043&gid=1&pgid=1999}} The contract was awarded to Murch Brothers Construction Company of St. Louis and ground was broken in January 1931 by Jean Hamlet, daughter of Rear Admiral [[Harry G. Hamlet]], Academy Superintendent from 1928 to 1932. On 15 May 1931, Treasury Secretary [[Andrew W. Mellon]] visited New London to lay the cornerstone of Hamilton Hall. Construction proceeded relatively on schedule and cadets moved in to the new buildings on 20 September 1932.
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