Admiral Butcher joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman in 1948.

The apprentice seaman told the authorities that he then jumped off the boat in knee-high water and waded to shore.

We get three weeks as apprentice seamen.

"Then we'll prepare the articles of apprentice seaman."

At the age of eighteen years, he enlisted in the United States Navy as an apprentice seaman and served, 1933-1937.

He had enlisted as an apprentice seaman in 1942 and was a lieutenant when discharged in 1945.

He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869.

"Oh, no, it was not horrible," Ms. Barnes, an apprentice seamen, remembered today.

About 200 apprentice seamen were immediately quartered on board her.

The apprentice seamen attended the program for 90-days after successful completion of a 30-day indoctrination course.