Maryland Nautical Sales, Inc.

About Us

aptain Hart was born and raised in Baltimore. At the age of 11, he quit school, sold newspapers and worked in a drugstore. While attending Polytechnic Institute at night, he worked in a machine shop and as an usher at the old Century Theater.  He first went to sea in 1931 aboard the Merchant & Miners Transportation Co.'s SS Chatham, as a cadet and quartermaster making the run from Boston to Miami. Within four years, he had been certified as a third mate by the Coast Guard and had earned master's and pilot's licenses.In 1935 he was injured in a lifeboat accident aboard the Chatham, he went ashore and sold insurance for the Acacia Life Insurance Co. until 1940. He briefly worked as a rigger at Maryland Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co. before returning to the sea as third mate on the SS Roanoke.