{"id":20,"date":"2018-05-08T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-05-14T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:27:17","slug":"20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/feature\/20\/","title":{"rendered":"National Maritime Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Giving thanks and appreciation for our Merchant Marine and its tradition<\/h2>\n<p>Each year on May 22, our country celebrates National Maritime Day. This day recognizes America\u2019s appreciation for the maritime industry, its notable ships, and the extraordinary seafarers whose service is the foundation of U.S. commerce, prosperity and security. The Merchant Marine powers and supplies the world\u2019s largest economy while supporting our military forces at sea and on foreign soils.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"feature\">\n<div id=\"attachment_25\" style=\"width: 881px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-image-25 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/National-Maritme-Day-1947.jpg\" alt=\"National Maritime Day - May 22, 1947\" width=\"871\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/National-Maritme-Day-1947.jpg 871w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/National-Maritme-Day-1947-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/National-Maritme-Day-1947-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congress declared National Maritime Day in 1933<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Why It Exists<\/h3>\n<p>On May 22, 1819, the <em>SS Savannah<\/em> left its homeport of Savannah, Georgia for Liverpool, England. The ship reached its destination in 29 days and four hours, marking the first successful transit of the Atlantic Ocean with steam propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>In 1933, Congress declared National Maritime Day to commemorate <em>Savannah\u2019s<\/em> voyage.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the MMA calendar, the training ship <em>State of Maine<\/em> will be on its annual training cruise, faithfully conducting its mission while enhancing the maritime legacy of Maine and the United States on National Maritime Day, 2018. Follow the training cruise on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/\">Cruise blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on National Maritime Day, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marad.dot.gov\/education\/national-maritime-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: WIKIPEDIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving thanks and appreciation for our Merchant Marine and its tradition<\/p>\n<p>Each year on May 22, our country celebrates National Maritime Day. This day recognizes America\u2019s appreciation for the maritime industry, its notable ships, and the extraordinary seafarers whose service is the foundation of U.S. commerce, prosperity and security. The Merchant Marine powers and supplies the world\u2019s largest economy while supporting our military forces at sea and on foreign soils.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/feature\/20\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-may-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}