Nautical Training Ships: An Illustrated History

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

For well over a hundred years all around the coast of Britain there were located a series of nautical training ships. Often surplus navy wooden walls, the ships provided a means of educating boys and young men, while preparing them for a lifetime at sea. The more famous of the schools included HMS Conway, initially on the Mersey, and then at Menai, the TS Mercury, at Hamble, Hampshire, the Mars on the Tay, at Dundee, the Vindicatrix at Sharpness Docks on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, the Worcester on the Thames and the Arethusa at Greenhithe.The Arethusa, converted from a sailing vessel, lasted until 1974 before she was purchased and sailed to America to be restored as a typical sailing vessel of the late nineteenth century. Phil Carradice tells the story of the training ships that helped keep Britain a maritime nation from their foundation to their demise as Britain's once-proud merchant marine declined in the latter years of the twentieth century.