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ersonal Sketches of Marine Men Albert V. Moore, President, Moore & McCormack Co., Inc. By E. C. Kreutzberg Photo by Blank é& Stoller Inc. A|ECENT award, by Moore & McCormack Co; Ine:; Mi operating one of the largest fleets out of north of Hatteras ports, of a contract to the New York Shipbuilding Co. for rebuilding four ves- - sels of the American Scantic line, at a total cost in excess of $1,300,000 with furnishings and equipment not supplied by the shipyard included, is a welcome aid in helping to maintain shipbuilding activity. Each ship will be equipped with cargo refrigeration and will ac- commodate 72 passengers in place of 16. Albert V. Moore, president of Moore & McCormack Co. Inc., directs the operation of 36 ships in this and other lines. He has faith in the future of the American merchant marine, but is strongly of the opinion that the national attitude toward the tariff is harmful to maritime development. “Our policy of building a high tariff barrier around ourselves,” says Mr. Moore, ‘‘hamstrings the American merchant marine. Foreigners, as a rule, like to do business with Americans but they cannot trade with us under conditions which give them considerably less than an even break. It is to be hoped that when tariff legis- lation again comes up, the ship operators’ point of view will be impressed on congress.”’ Born at Hackensack, N. J., Mr. Moore inherited his leaning to the sea from his father and his maternal grandfather. The latter was a sea captain who owned his ships outright and sailed them in the offshore trade. The father, Albert V. Moore, invested his surplus money in American ships, and at one time had an interest in thirty-five sailing vessels. His connection with ocean shipping goes back to 1898 and a $4.00 a week job as office boy with Bowring and Archibald, New York. In 1903 Mr. Moore and M. Stan- ley Tweedie organized the Tweedie Trading Co. with Mr. Moore as secretary. In 1913, with Emmett J. McCormack, he organized Moore & McCormack Co. Inc., accepted the agency of the Clinchfield Navigation Co., and thereupon developed a fleet of coal steamers. This fleet was handled almost until the end of the World war, and during that time the company negotiated for the Clinchfield line the building SUCCESSFUL American steamship A operator; he is the head of one of the largest fleets operating out of north of Hatteras ports. H's company has recently authorized the expenditure of over $1,300,000 in rebuilding four vessels for the American Scantic line. E HAS built up an efficient well rounded loyal organization which has gained the confidence and good will of shippers. of a number of ships on the lakes for ocean service. The first ship bought by Moore & McCormack Co. Ine. for its own account, during 1914, was an old wooden lake steamer called the GrTTySsBURG, and about the same time the company also bought two wooden barges on the lakes. These three craft were converted for deep-sea work and caused their owner many a worry. As a re- sult of this experience the company later advised the shipping board—-when the wooden shipbuilding program was under contemplation—to build steel vessels only. The shipping board ignored this advice, but Moore & McCormack never again invested in a wooden vessel. During the war period the firm operated up to 65 ves- sels, a good many of them in submarine infested waters, without losing a single ship. The company’s owned and associated fleets now com- prise twenty vessels; seven in the Mooremack Gulf lines trading between Boston and Philadelphia to Tampa, New Orleans and Mobile; eleven in the American Scantic line, trading between ports north-of Cape Hatteras to Seandi- navian and Baltic and Russian ports; and two in the Honolulu Steamship Co., mainly a tramp business. It also acts as freight agent for the Calmar line, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., operating eleven steamers in the intercoastal trade. Five chartered vessels are oper- ated to the East coast of South America. Moore & McCormack Co. Ine. headquarters are at New York with offices at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chi- cago, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Helsingfors, Stock- holm, Gydnia and Warsaw. Mr. Moore is impressed with-the high standard of education and training given at the United States Naval Academy. A number of men in his organization are graduates of Annapolis, and he expresses the hope that his two sons will seek to qualify for admission to this famous school. He resides with his family at Forest Hills, Long Island. Golf is his principal diversion. He is a mem- ber of the Metropolitan, Whitehall and Lawyers clubs, of New York. When he has the opportunity, he goes deep-sea fishing. 62 MARINE ReEview—April, 1932