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 & 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 onceproud merchant marine declined in the latter years of the twentieth century.
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| Publication: |
October 2009 |
Extent: |
192 pages |
| Availability: |
In stock |
Images: |
200 mono |
| Format: |
248 x 172 mm |
Book site: |
Available Soon |
| Binding: |
Paperback |
