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The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Register
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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The old steamship Robert Fulton has been refitted at the New York Navy Yard as a receiving ship and rigging school to train and qualify new sailors for the U.S. Navy, ensuring competent seamen are supplied to vessels.
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Sailors, when first employed, will be placed on board this vessel when competent masters will determine whether they are qualified as seamen. If so, whenever a vessel of the Navy is dispatched, her complement of seamen will be of the first character. If upon being placed on board the Fulton, they are found unacquainted with the duties which they are called upon to fill, they receive such instruction as is necessary.
It is calculated that every month the Fulton will present the appearance of a full rigged ship, and again that of a dismasted one. The scholars are kept continually at work in making, arranging and taking down the different parts of the rigging. The establishment of this school is very laudable. By these means our navy can always be supplied with first rate seamen, and of course, raw and inexperienced hands will receive such knowledge as will fit them for their profession.
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Navy Yard, New York
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the ship is converted to train and qualify seamen, supplying the navy with competent sailors and instructing inexperienced hands.
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The old steamship Robert Fulton has had its engine removed and is fitted as a receiving ship and rigging school at the Navy Yard. New sailors are placed aboard for qualification by masters; qualified ones serve on navy vessels, while others receive necessary instruction. The ship alternates between fully rigged and dismasted states monthly, with scholars working on rigging. This establishment ensures the navy has first-rate seamen.