Action in the North Atlantic

00:41:39,547 --> 00:41:43,450 Please form in line. You'll be taken care of by the numbers on your cards. 523 00:41:43,518 --> 00:41:46,613 She's one of them new babies. A big wagon, and she's fast. 524 00:41:46,688 --> 00:41:49,851 Get in line, please. We‘ll take the ABs first. 525 00:41:53,828 --> 00:41:55,796 Here we go again, daddy! 526 00:41:57,131 --> 00:41:58,724 Look who's here. 527 00:42:00,101 --> 00:42:01,933 I guess I talk too much. 528 00:42:02,003 --> 00:42:04,973 Welcome home, sweetheart. No hard feelings, huh? 529 00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:07,667 Why should there be any hard feelings? 530 00:42:08,810 --> 00:42:10,972 Got a cigarette? Sure. Here. 531 00:42:21,556 --> 00:42:22,751 Why... 532 00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:26,525 Well, I got you this time. Who‘s all this? 533 00:42:26,761 --> 00:42:27,922 It's Jenny, the wife. 534 00:42:27,995 --> 00:42:31,021 I saw your fat face in a newsreel, Mr. Alfred O‘Hara. 535 00:42:31,099 --> 00:42:34,000 Here‘s an invitation for you, from a judge. 536 00:42:34,102 --> 00:42:35,399 Oh, listen now, Jenny. 537 00:42:35,470 --> 00:42:36,670 I've been having a tough time. 538 00:42:36,738 --> 00:42:38,797 I've been fighting sharks on a raft for 11 days. 539 00:42:38,873 --> 00:42:41,706 Yeah? Did a blonde shark spill that perfume on you? 540 00:42:41,776 --> 00:42:44,473 No, Jenny. That‘s the smell of the sea. 541 00:42:45,146 --> 00:42:48,309 Yeah? Well, try smelling this for a change. 542 00:42:56,157 --> 00:42:58,854 Them Liberty boats are sure well-named. 543 00:43:08,269 --> 00:43:11,136 Many of you are being assigned to active duty for the first time. 544 00:43:11,205 --> 00:43:13,572 Others are being transferred to new ships. 545 00:43:13,641 --> 00:43:15,200 Some of you have faced the fire of the enemy 546 00:43:15,276 --> 00:43:17,210 and given a good account of yourself. 547 00:43:17,278 --> 00:43:20,543 Annapolis and West Point have a long and glorious tradition. 548 00:43:20,615 --> 00:43:23,846 This is a new school. But you have a tradition, too. 549 00:43:23,918 --> 00:43:26,819 The oldest tradition of any American service. 550 00:43:26,888 --> 00:43:29,220 American merchant ships, carrying vital supplies 551 00:43:29,290 --> 00:43:32,055 to George Washington's army, were largely responsible 552 00:43:32,126 --> 00:43:35,562 for our first victory as a free nation. Remember that. 553 00:43:35,663 --> 00:43:39,258 Gentlemen, the future of the United States Merchant Marine 554 00:43:39,433 --> 00:43:41,026 is in your hands. 555 00:43:41,102 --> 00:43:42,627 Cadet Anderson. 556 00:43:49,377 --> 00:43:53,041 You're assigned to the 8.8. Roger Ames, Captain Gustafson. Good luck. 557 00:43:53,114 --> 00:43:54,314 Smooth sailing. Thank you, sir. 558 00:43:54,382 --> 00:43:55,850 Cadet Parker. 559 00:43:57,118 --> 00:44:00,247 Cadet Parker, you're assigned to the 8.8. Seawitch. 560 00:44:00,488 --> 00:44:02,616 She's a new ship with a famous old name. 561 00:44:02,690 --> 00:44:06,422 You already know the Captain. Captain Jarvis. Good luck. Smooth sailing. 562 00:44:06,494 --> 00:44:07,689 Thank you, sir. 563 00:44:07,762 --> 00:44:09,025 Cadet Tierney. 564 00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:15,502 Joe Rossi here? 565 00:44:15,570 --> 00:44:18,403 What do you want to see him about? I'd rather tell him that. 566 00:44:18,472 --> 00:44:21,339 Oh, hiya, Steve. Come on in. Have a drink? 567 00:44:21,409 --> 00:44:22,740 No, thanks. 568 00:44:22,844 --> 00:44:25,506 You look worse than you did on the raft. 569 00:44:25,580 --> 00:44:27,241 Maybe. But I've had a lot more fun. 570 00:44:27,315 --> 00:44:29,647 Honey, I want you to meet a good friend of mine, Steve Jarvis. 571 00:44:29,717 --> 00:44:30,912 We‘ve met. 572 00:44:30,985 --> 00:44:32,214 Joe, I got a new ship. 573 00:44:32,286 --> 00:44:35,119 You're signed on as first, providing you can report in half an hour. 574 00:44:35,189 --> 00:44:38,523 And not in that uniform. You‘re not gonna go, Joe? 575 00:44:38,593 --> 00:44:40,823 Baby, I told you it was gonna be like this. 576 00:44:40,895 --> 00:44:43,592 It's an old story with Joe and me. Is it? 577 00:44:43,664 --> 00:44:45,029 I'm always getting him aboard ship 578 00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,863 when he‘s tangled up in something like this. 579 00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:49,960 Something like what? Oh, don‘t mind him, Pearl. 580 00:44:50,037 --> 00:44:51,869 The old man of the sea. 581 00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:55,239 You may know a lot about ships, Steve, but you don‘t know anything about people. 582 00:44:55,309 --> 00:44:58,643 I know you. She's different. Everyone of them‘s different. 583 00:44:58,713 --> 00:45:01,648 I've heard it in Cape Town, Rio, Bombay. That‘s right. 584 00:45:01,716 --> 00:45:02,916 Where‘s your money? I have... 585 00:45:02,950 -->