US Navy Small Craft Training Center

The US Navy also had Small Craft Training Centers in Miami, Florida, Santa Barbara, California, New Orleans, Louisiana and other sites.

[6][7] World War II Small Craft Training Centers: Submarine Chaser Training Center (SCTC) was a US Navy School for training seamen in the use and care for Submarine chasers (PC & SC), used in World War II to hunt Nazi Germany naval submarines, U-boats.

[8] The Chaser Training Center was stationed at the old Port of Miami at Pier 2, near downtown on Biscayne Boulevard.

Due to the small crafts and large task, some gave the Submarine chasers the nickname Donald Duck Navy.

[12][13] In June 1969 the Navy opened Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School that currently is headquartered at John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.