Voyage Seven
Roger W. Young - Page 2
The Young took on a load of raw sugar in Cuba for the return trip. I remember asking what the brown stuff they were loading was. It wasn't white, it had been refined yet. We brought it to the Domino sugar dock - American Refining docks in the East River.
On the way back things got so out of hand that the Captain radioed ahead to the Coast Guard in New York. When we docked in New York on February 25, 1945 he wanted the whole crew arrested . I came back aboard after going ashore in New York and there were fights all over the ship. One young guy was chasing another all over with a fire axe. The Coast Guard finally came and threw the whole crew off the ship. The Captain wanted the whole lot of us brought up on charges, but the Coast Guard wouldn't do it. The union officials came down and straightened everything out and we got discharged. The captain asked for it and he got what he asked for. The Young like all these government built ships was owned by the War Shipping Administration, but was chartered to a private company, in this case the Waterman Steamship Corporation. We were discharged and paid off in New York.