In re Karadzas

.PALMIERI, District Judge.

This is a petition for naturalization brought under § 330 (a) (2) of the Immi*26gration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1441(a) (2).

The question presented is whether the petitioner’s service as a seaman comes within the purview of this statute which permits, in lieu of continuous residence, service “on board.'vessels of more than twenty tons burden, whether or not documented under the laws of the United States, and whether public or private, which are not foreign vessels, and whose home port is in the United States * Nationality Act of 1940, § 325(a), 54 Stat.…