The Shipping Lines Look to the Future

     The pages of Trumbullog carried inspirational advertisements from major shipping lines reminding the officer candidates of the larger world of the merchant marine even as they spent their days absorbing the myriad details of merchant seamanship.  As well as helping them grasp a bigger picture of the profession they were entering, the ads reassured them of the employment opportunities that would be available in the peacetime merchant marine.

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Below: Next to a Grace Line ad Trumbullog published an announcement of the death of Ernest E. Rogers on January 28, 1945. Rogers was a New London banker, historian, a former mayor of the city and former Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. He promoted the city's annual observance of National Maritime Day, an event coordinated several times with the commandant of the Fort Trumbull school, hence the announcement in the school newspaper.

Ernest E. Rogers was the author of the well regarded Connecticut's Naval Office at New London in the War of the American Revolution, published in 1933.