Bernard de Neumann

Location

Pupils

Opened

Closed

Commentary

Industrial School Ships

Clio

Bangor

260

1877

May, 1919

Cumberland (Empress) (+ Cumbria & Selene)

Gareloch

360

Jun 1869

1923

Endeavour (Feltham I.S.)

Feltham

150

1866

1909

Formidable

Portishead

325

Nov 1869

1906

Gibraltar

Belfast

350

Jun 1872

Goliath

Grays

500

Nov 1870

Dec 1875

Grampian

Belfast

?

Havannah

Cardiff

100

1861

1905

Mars

Dundee

300

Sep 1869

1929

Mount Edgcumbe

Saltash, Plymouth

250

1877

Jun 1920

Shaftsbury (+Themis)

Grays

400

1877

1905

Southampton

Hull

240

Sep 1868

1912

Wellesley

Tynemouth

300

Jan 1868

1914

Reformatory Ships/Approved Schools

Akbar

Rock Ferry, Mersey

200

Jun 1855

1908

HMS Cornwallis renamed Akbar in 1812 and used for quarantine service from 1827 to 1855 in Liverpool. In 1862 replaced by Wellington which took her name.

Clarence

Mersey

250

Aug 1864

Jul 1899

Cornwall

Grays/Denton

250

Jun 1859

1940

Farnworth N.S. (Ex Clarence)/St Aidan’s

Wigan

1900

1980’s

Heswall Nautical School (Ex Akbar)

Heswall/Wirral

1908

1956

National Nautical School (+Polly) (Ex Formidable)

Portishead

1906

1982

Wellesley Nautical School (+ James Hall & Carina) (Ex Wellesley)

Blyth

1914

Private & Charitable Training Ships/Schools

Arethusa (Shaftsbury Homes)

Greenhithe/Medway

200

1874

1973

Chichester (Shaftsbury Homes)

Greenhithe

200

1866

1874

Royal Mathematical School of Christ’s Hospital School

Greyfriars, London/ Horsham, Sussex

1672

Pupils called Mathemats entered Navy as King’s Letter Boys.

Diana

Tyne

Exmouth (+Steadfast) (Metropolitan Asylum Bd/LCC)

Grays

700

1876

1939

Continued as London Nautical Training School at Wolverstone Hall until 1951.

Foudroyant

Falmouth

1897

Built of Teak as HMS Trincomalee. Bought by Mr Wheatley Cobb for convertion to a stationary training ship and renamed Foudroyant.

Gibbs Training School

Penarth

1869

1936

Indefatigable (+James J. Bibby)

Rock Ferry, Mersey

250

Jul 1865

1940

Mercury (+Visula)

Hamble

1885

1968

Royal Hospital School (Greenwich Royal Hospital)

Greenwich & Holbrook

680

1712

In 1712 GH began the education of boys not less than 14 nor more than 17 by appointing Thomas Watson as their teacher. Watson founded Watson’s Academy and obtained a Royal Warrant to teach Navigation. GRHS had HMS Fame set into ground at front of school. Boys from GHS/Upper School (later Nautical School) of GRHS entered RN & MN directly as Masters’ Mates.

Russell Coates N.S. (Dr Barnado’s)

Parkstone, Dorset

40

1920

1964

Stork (Navy League)

Hammersmith

60

1911

1948

Warspite (Marine Society)

Grays

200

1756

1940

Watts Naval T.S. (Dr Barnado’s)

Elmham, Norfolk

300

1906

1954

Sea Training Schools

Graham Sea Training School (+ Bonaventure & Maisie Graham)

Scarborough

Gravesend Sea Training School (+ Triton)

Gravesend

Hull School for Fishermen

Hull

Lancs & National Sea Training Homes

Wallasey

National Sea Training School

Liverpool

Prince of Wales Sea Training School

Limehouse

50

1920

Rotherhithe New Road Nautical School

Rotherhithe

1915

Vindicatrix

Severn

1921

Sea Cadet Training Ships

Bounty

Worcester

40

1940

Foudrayant

Portsmouth

1945

Implacable

Portsmouth

Nelson

Battersea

Stork

Severn

Merchant Navy Cadet Ships/Colleges

Conway

Mersey/Menai

140

Aug 1859

Pangbourne College

Pangbourne

150-350

1917

Worcester (+ Katrine, Cutty Sark, Worcester Cadet)

Greenhithe

140

1862

Sea-Going Merchant Navy Cadet Ships

Australia (British India Steam Navigation Co)

1919

1934

Carpentaria (British India Steam Navigation Co)

1919

1934

Cutty Sark

1938

1952

Dartford (New Zealand Shipping Co.)

Devon (New Zealand Shipping Co.)

English Rose

1942

Euterpe (Shaw Saville & Co.)

1871

1899

Garibaldi (Aberdovey Outward Bound Sea School)

1941

1949

Harbinger (Devitt & Moore)

1890

1897

Hesperus (Devitt & Moore)

1890

1899

Illawarra (Devitt & Moore)

1899

1907

Joseph Conrad

1934

1936

Lady of Avenel

1921

1923

Lady Quirk

1930

Ended days as HQ ship of Essex Yacht Club.

MacQuarie (Devitt & Moore)

1897

1904

Medway (Devitt & Moore)

Mersey (White Star Line)

1908

1915

Mynimie R. Kirby

1927

1930

Nardana (British India Steam Navigation Co.)

1919

1934

Northumberland (New Zealand Shipping C0.)

Port Jackson (Devitt & Moore)

1906

1916

Prince Louis (Gordonstoun School)

1938

St George (Devitt & Moore)

1919

1921

Wave

Westmorland (New Zealand Shipping Co.)

Woodarra (British India Steam Navigation Co.)

1919

1934

Navigation & Nautical Schools Ashore

Baxter’s School

Leadenhall St, London

Boulevard Nautical School

Hull

1914

Broughton’s School

Walting St, London

Burstow Nautical School

Horley, Sussex

Department of Navigation

Cardiff

Department of Navigation

Southampton

Department of Navigation, Merchant Adventurers’ Tech College

Bristol

1733

King Edward VII Nautical School (Nicholl’s Academy)

Poplar

1856

LCC School of Engineering and Navigation

Poplar

1904

Leith Nautical College

Leith

1903

London Nautical School

Southwark

Marine School

South Shields

1837

Nautical College, Central Technical School

Liverpool

1892

Navigation School

Plymouth

1862

Potter’s Nautical Academy

Tower Hill, London

1907

Quirk Nautical College

Gravesend & Poole

1918

1932

Rugg’s School

Commercial Rd, London

School of Navigation

Aberdeen

1857

School of Navigation

Dundee

School of Navigation, Royal Technical College

Glasgow

1910

Sir John Cass Nautical school, Technical Institute

London

Smith Junior Nautical School

Cardiff

1921

Trinity House Navigation School

Hull

1785

Trinity House Navigation School

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

May 1712

1870

Watt Memorial School of Navigation

Greenock

Watts Academy

Tower St, London

c1720

Royal Navy – Cadet Ships/Shore Schools

HMS Britannia (+ Syren & Wave)

Devenport

Sep 1857

Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

Royal Naval Academy, Gosport?

Royal Naval College, Osborne

1903

Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham

1903

Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon

Royal Navy – Boy Seamen Ships/Shore Schools

HMS Agincourt

Portsmouth

HMS Black Prince

Queenstown

HMS Boscowan

Portland

HMS Caledonia

Forth, Scotland

HMS Duke

Malvern, Worcs

1939?

1946

Site presently occupied by DERA Malvern

HMS Emerald

HMS Fisgard

Portsmouth

HMS Foudroyant

Falmouth

HMS Ganges

Falmouth/Shotley

1866

1973

Ganges was built in India (ordered in June 1816) of Teak, and proved particularly durable.

HMS Implacable

Devenport

HMS Impregnable

Devonport

1928

HMS Lion

Devonport

HMS Minotaur

Portland

HMS St George

Isle of Man

1940

1945

HMS St Vincent

Gosport

400

Royal Navy – Boys Gunnery Ships

HMS Pembroke

Medway

Royal Navy – Sea-Going Training Ships

HMS Active

HMS Benbow

Dec 1930

HMS Calliope

HMS Cleopatra

HMS Curacoa

HMS Emperor of India

Dec 1930

HMS Marlborough

Dec 1930

HMS Martin

HMS Medusa

HMS Northampton

HMS Royal Arthur