The Training Fleet

E.L. Bartlett

• Engine type - Twin Fairbanks Morse 38D 81/8 diesel engines
• Aux. Engine - Twin Cummins NT855G3M main, G.M. 4/71 emergency, one Cummins 855 bowthruster engine

• Carries 236 passengers, 29 cars, electric power for seven vans
• Food service area.
• Hull: Steel, sheltered main deck for vehicles, bow visor w/locking pins, vertical stowed bow & stern ramps for loading. Passenger deck above car deck. Freeing ports at main car deck.

• 3 Radar, Decca BT360, Decca RM916C, Decca Racal Bridgemaster
• 1 Sperry Mk 27 Gyro compass, 1 Magnetic compass, 1 gyro repeater
• 1 Furuno GPS Navigator
• 1 Ross Fineline depth sounder
• 1 Ross depth indicator
• 1 each Icom ICM80 VHF, Icom ICR72 receiver, Icom CC M 700, emergency signal generator, Sharp SSB/AM, 40 channel radio
• Westinghouse Engine control stations in wheelhouse & each wing
• 2 x Clearview screens
• 1 T.V. Monitor for card deck doors, visor, ramps
• Engine order Telegraph
• Dual electro hydraulic steering sets
• Normal & sound powered phones

• Lifeboats, not motor, davit launched. 1 Port & 1 Stbd. Life rafts
• Life vests: 293
• Life rings, 2 with lights, 2 with attached lines
• Rescue boat, Zodiac, 4-man with outboard motor & davit
• EPIRB
• Immersion/survival suit: Minimum 9

VESSEL HISTORY:
In January 2008, F/V E.L. BARTLETT was donated to Seattle Maritime Academy by Lloyd Cannon. Mr. Cannon is considered one of the pioneers of the king crab fishing industry and principal at All Alaskan Seafood, a major Alaskan fishing and processing operations.

The BARTLETT will be a stationary training platform for the Academy's Marine Deck and Marine Engineering Technology Certificate programs. In 2009, the BARTLETT will be placed under a Certificate of Inspection (COI) with the U.S. Coast Guard. This will enable the Academy to allow students to stand 24-hr manned watches and offer a one month at-sea summer cruise throughout the Puget Sound. The BARTLETT will be the center point of training and recruiting both at the Academy and underway.

T/V Charles A. Kane

VESSEL HISTORY:
The T/V Charles A. Kane has a rather intriguing history. It was originally built to be an offshore supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Built for Theriot Brothers Marine Services of Houma, Louisiana, and the vessel was christened the M/V Dominic T. and was first employed tending offshore oilrigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the early 1980s the vessel was interdicted smuggling cocaine into the United States from Colombia and was confiscated by the U.S. Government. It was then acquired by the U.S. Navy and put into service as a recreational vessel for naval personnel in San Diego, CA.

In the mid-1980's the vessel was "reassigned" to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, WA. Upon arrival in Keyport the vessel was commissioned as a full naval ship and renamed the UR-93. The vessel assumed her fourth role in life as a "research" platform. She now assumed the mission of testing specialized equipment used to listen for enemy submarines. The Navy handed the UR-93 over to SMA in 1993 when she was declared surplus to the Navy's needs. Following acquisition by SMA the vessel was renamed the Seattle Maritime Educator and later the Charles A. Kane. Ever since, she has operated faithfully as a training platform for students in the Marine Technology Programs.

T/V Maritime Instructor

The T/V Maritime Instructor was originally built as a Coast Guard cutter of the WPB "Point" class for use in coastal patrol duties. Built by the Coast Guard in 1962, the cutter was christened the USCGC Point Divide (WPB 82337) and took up station in Corona Del Mar, California in March 1963.

The cutter's primary mission role was Search and Rescue. Secondary missions included assignments in law enforcement, boating safety, military preparedness, marine environmental response and public relations. As a public relations vehicle the vessel appeared on television in serial shows such as Baywatch and a CNN documentary on the "drug war". In addition, she made cameo appearances in Hollywood films. The cutter spent its entire 31-year Coast Guard career in southern California; the normal operating area consisting of well over two million square miles extending from San Diego northward to Point Dume, CA with occasional voyages to Baja California and the Pacific Northwest. Two of the more noteworthy events of her career include escorting the British royal yacht Britannia along the California coast during a visit by Queen Elizabeth II and interdicting the F/V Ocean Joy attempting to smuggle 10 tons of marijuana into the United States.

In 1995 the USCGC Point Divide was declared surplus to the Coast Guard's needs and handed over to SMA under sponsorship of the U.S. Maritime Administration. Following acquisition by SMA the vessel was renamed the Maritime Instructor.