U.S. trains American youth for merchant fleet. A group of apprentice seamen "holystone" the deck of the U.S.

U.S. trains American youth for merchant fleet. A group of apprentice seamen "holystone" the deck of the U.S. training ship "American Sailor" as they prepare to join America's merchant marine fleet now carriyng supplies and munitions to United Nations war fronts. The sailors first sprinkle sand on the wet deck and then push heavy blocks of stone back anfd forth until the deck is gleaming white. This is one task that sailors the world over never learn to like.