Happy Wednesday! How are you enjoying the cool weather which blew in? We hate to say it; we’re a bit chilly!
We love to
write about things which connect to our previous blogs, and U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Maritime Administration’s (MURAD) National Security Multi-Mission
Vessel (NSMV) Program had christened and blessed its second vessel for its
maiden voyage back in September, please check out our Blog for details. We wrote on our own Texas A&M University (TAMU) –
Galveston Maritime Academy NSMV training ship, TS Lone Star State, having
its keel laying celebration back in December 2023; please check out of blog for
details.
Did anyone
happen to read gCaptain Daily Newsletter on October 15, 2024, their
article titled, “Mass Maritime Academy New Training Ship ‘Patriot State’ to
Buzzards Bay”? The article speaks in
regard to the U.S.’s second NSMV called NSMV II ‘Patriot State’ has arrived at
its new home port in Buzzard Bay which is where the Massachusetts Maritime Academy is located. The NSMV program is a partnership between
public and private sectors to make multi-use vessels and their project managers
are TOTE Services. All five NSMVs are or
will be modern innovative training vessels, which were designed with cadets in
mind, so they will have spaces for classrooms, a complete bridge and room for
approximately 600 cadets for their schooling at sea. The ship in addition will have a hospital,
helicopter pad, and the ship will be able to help 1,000 people when duty calls
in times of distress. Another feature of
the ship is it is capable of rolling supplies or containers on and off quickly. The first completed NSMV was the Empire State
VII which was for the SUNY Maritime College at the State University of New York.
Massachusetts
Maritime Academy’s Patriot State has taken the place of the training ship Kennedy
who was originally christened SS Velma Lykes back in 1967 at a shipyard in New
Orleans, Louisiana. In 2023, the TS
Kennedy was sent to Texas A&M Maritime Academy to train their cadets
while their ship is being built (Check out our Blog in May 2023 for further
details). The TS Kennedy has answered a
distress call, and its crew rescued a small vessel back in June 2024, please see
our Blog for details. Texas A&M’s
cadets and instructors were able to have a real-life situation for a great
learning and hands-on experience which is what the education at sea is all
about in preparing our future mariners.
The NSMV
program has three more ships to complete for maritime academies in Maine, Texas,
and California. These future mariners
will have hands-on experience of these vessels!
We wish Patriot State a long successful life training our future
mariners and helping those in need. If
you would like to read more of gCaptain’s article, please click the link:
Mass Maritime Academy Welcomes New Training Ship 'Patriot State' to Buzzards Bay(gcaptain.com).
Please click
the maritime academies name above for information.
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We hope you have a wonderful evening, and a great rest of
your week!
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