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The Professor on Shipboard - A Story of a Voyage of a College Professor with His Brother, Who Was Chief Engineer of a Steamship
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McAndrew's Floating School: A Story for Marine Engineers (Classic Reprint)
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Charles Albert McAllister was an American marine engineer and shipping official.
Background
Charles Albert McAllister was born on May 29, 1867 in Dorchester, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Abigail Ann Shute McAllister. His father, a ship-builder, had emigrated from Scotland and later established a shipyard on City Island in the Bronx, New York City. There Charles first became acquainted with naval architecture.
Education
To study marine engineering, McAllister attended Cornell University where he received the degree of mechanical engineer in 1887.
Career
McAllister was a draftsman, at first with the Cramp yards in Philadelphia and then with the navy. He helped to design the boilers for the Oregon and for other vessels of the new navy. For the next quarter century he was an engineer officer in the Revenue-Cutter Service. Appointed second assistant engineer on June 30, 1892, he was promoted to first assistant engineer on June 6, 1895. During the Spanish-American War he served in the navy as engineer officer on the Pennsylvania in the Pacific. On April 13, 1902, he became chief engineer of the Revenue-Cutter Service where he exerted great influence. He is credited with suggesting the legislation approved on January 28, 1915, combining the Revenue-Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service into a single organization known as the Coast Guard. On March 9, 1916, he became engineer-in-chief of the new service with a rank equivalent to that of commander in the navy and served in that capacity until his resignation on July 12, 1919. He left the service to become vice-president of the American Bureau of Shipping at the instance of his friend, Stevenson Taylor, whom he succeeded as president upon the latter's death in 1926. Before McAllister's death the organization was registering ninety per cent. of the American merchant marine eligible for classification. In his new capacity, McAllister took a leading part in the agitation for governmental support of the American merchant marine. The Bureau brought him into contact with all the principal ship-builders and ship-owners, while his years at Washington had given him exceptional contacts with legislators, officials, and journalists. He made almost weekly trips from New York to Washington, testified at congressional merchant marine hearings, and did much to facilitate the passage of the Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928. His last efforts were to secure an appropriation of $125, 000, 000 to build a hundred new fast steamships for the merchant marine. He served with distinction as a delegate to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea in London in 1929 and, as chairman of the Shipping Board's committee on fuel conservation, was active in introducing the use of pulverized coal for economy. He was the author of two books on marine engineering and wrote numerous popular and technical articles on the merchant marine. He died at his home on Park Avenue in New York City.