WILSON
LINE
&
SEAFARERS
INTERNATIONAL UNION
The
Wilmington News Journal, January 22, 1968, reported that the 30
year
old Wilson Liner, John A. Meseck, is on it's way to Piney Point's
Seafarers
International Union seamanship school. She is being towed by
the
tug Tern, Captain J. A. Williamson, a 30 hour trip if the ice is
not too
bad.
The
1,978 ton Meseck built 1938 as the river steamer Nasushon for the
Hudson
River and New York harbor with the Meseck Shiplines.
In
1942 she carried 12 pound guns on deck, one of 8 converted riverboats
which
became hospital ships at D Day. After the war she returned to
America
and bought by Wilson Lines, Inc, as an excursion boat, then retired
to
rusting in the Christina.
The
Seafarers Union, the largest maritime union of the United States
members with over 35,000 members, was organized in 1938 to
represent
mariners who sail aboard U. S. Flag Ships . It offers access
health
care, retirement and educational benefits. The union is
active
in
political arenas to maintain safe conditions for work aboard
vessels
and
to ensure high standards in membership training. The union
operates
the
Paul Hall Center for maritime training and education at Piney
Point,
Baltimore,
Maryland.
Abstract:
Wilmington News Journal, January 22, 1968 by Tom Malone
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