Excerpt from Seamen, Past and Present: A General Compilation of Opinions on Their Condition and the Means for Their Improvement
This ship may be called the model school ship, intended to educate the sons of well to do people, especially for officers in the merchant service.
The Warspite is the only ship 111 Table No. 1, maintained wholly by private subscriptions, - she is maintained by the Marine Society. The boys are taken from the following classes z - Destitute boys without relations boys in abject dis tress boys of truant habits, or who may have been charged with petty offences; boys belonging to poor parents who agree to their entering; boys outside of the place (woolwich), none, however, are received under the age of 14, or under four feet ten inches in stature. The Marine Society is a private institution, and was fully incorporated 1772. From May, 1769 to 8lst December, 1874, were sent into the Royal Navy into the Indian Navy; and into the merchant service. Since the starting of the school have been fitted for sea, and in addition, up to 1814 have had a bounty of sea clothing on condition' of serving in the navy when called upon, making a total of who have had the benefit of the school.
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Excerpt from Seamen, Past and Present: A General Compilation of Opinions on Their Condition and the Means for Their Improvement
This ship may be called the model school ship, intended to educate the sons of well to do people, especially for officers in the merchant service.
The Warspite is the only ship 111 Table No. 1, maintained wholly by private subscriptions, - she is maintained by the Marine Society. The boys are taken from the following classes z - Destitute boys without relations boys in abject dis tress boys of truant habits, or who may have been charged with petty offences; boys belonging to poor parents who agree to their entering; boys outside of the place (woolwich), none, however, are received under the age of 14, or under four feet ten inches in stature. The Marine Society is a private institution, and was fully incorporated 1772. From May, 1769 to 8lst December, 1874, were sent into the Royal Navy into the Indian Navy; and into the merchant service. Since the starting of the school have been fitted for sea, and in addition, up to 1814 have had a bounty of sea clothing on condition' of serving in the navy when called upon, making a total of who have had the benefit of the school.
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