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Mariner Training During World War II

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island. Trainees painting the schooner Vema.

Photographs by John Vachon. Date Created/Published: 1942 July. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).