I would like to find anyone who knew my father who was a cook/messman from 1938 thru the 40's, 50's 60's. He died in La. in 1978. He sailed for Sun Oil out of Marcus Hook, Pa. I do have a lot of info but nothing personal. His name was William "Bill" Nolan from Ga. Would like to correspond with anyone about this time of sailing in the MM. Thanks, katebrittian@att.net

Hi Kate,
You may want to take a look at:
http://www.armed-guard.com/searchmil.html
There's an active message board there.

Also, I just found out that Merchant Marines can be found by looking at, for example,the New York Port Passenger Lists. Go here for list of ports:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html