REFORMATORY SHIPS
Information for research
REFORMATORY SHIPS
AKBAR at ROCK FERRY,
MERSEY (later Heswall)
Nautical School 1908 - 1956)
June 1855 - 1908
Boys: 200
Lancashire
Records Office
Bow
Lane
Preston
PR1 2RE
Tel: 0772 254868
Minute books
Registers
Accounts
books
Publications:
'Yesterday's
Naughty Children' by Joan Rimmer,
1986 Pub by Neil Richardson
ISBN 0 907511 96 1
'The
Forgotten Fleet' by John Smart (at
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Pier
Head, Liverpool, L3 1DW Te; o51 236 1492
CLARENCE on MERSEY
Aug 1864 - Jul 1899
Boys: 250
Nugent
Care Society
150 Brownlow
Hill
Liverpool
L3 5RF
Tel: 051 708 0566
Possible records at Clarence House School, West
Lane, Formby
Tel: Formby 870413
Became Farnworth Nautical School at Cronton near
Widnes, later St Aidan's
Approved School near Wigan
CORNWALL at DENTON, GRAVESEND & GRAYS
Jun 1859 - 1940 (At Denton in Suffolk 1940 - 45)
Boys: 250
Maintained by The School Ship Society
Publications:
'T.S. "Cornwall"; Fifty Years of Reformatory
Work' by W. Millachip (copy in
Gray's Library)
'A Floating Borstal on
the Thames ("Cornwall") by
Pat O'Driscoll ('Archive'
Magazine, issue
5)
CHARITABLE TRAINING SHIPS
& SCHOOLS
ARETHUSA (SHAFTSBURY
HOMES) at GREENHITHE and
then on MEDWAY
1874 - 1973
Boys: 200
Records
Shaftesbury & Arethusa Homes
3, Rectory
Grove
London SW4 0EG
Tel: 0207 288 1410
Minute books
Registers
Some Account
books
Information
Chatham
Library
Tel: 0634
843589
Rochester & Medway Local Studies
Tel: 0634
732714
CHICHESTER (SHAFTSBURY HOMES) at
GREENHITHE
1866 - 1874
Boys: 200
Shaftesbury Homes Office
Minute books
Registers
DIANA TYNE
1868 - 1875
For destitute boys
Minute Books at Tyne & Wear Archives Service
EXMOUTH
GRAYS
1876 - 1939
Boys: 700
Greater
London Records Office
40, Northampton
Road
EC1R 0HB
Tel: 0207 332 3820 & 3822
Minute books
Registers
Accounts
books
Punishment books
T.S.Exmouth Association, founded
1994
e-mail: Patric.J.Jones at Exoboy310@aol.com
Members from Grays,
Burnham-on-Crouch, Lydney,
Bray and Woolverstone
periods.
Annual
reunions in Lydney, occasional mini
reunions at Grays.
Periodical
magazine, "Dickeydobs"
A large quantity of photographs, ('The Turner
Collection')
c.1929-1937, plus 'Ship's Company' 1945, and
others
including H.M.S.Exmouth
role at Scapa Flow.
Considerable research done on
period 1875-1905,
and still ongoing up to
1939. Official History
envisaged.
GIBBS TRAINING SCHOOL at PENARTH
1869 - 1936
Became Headlands (Approved) School
Publications
'Headlands School' by Paul Carradice
INDEFATIGABLE at ROCK
FERRY, MERSEY
Jul 1865 - 1940
Boys: 250
Transferred to shore barracks at ....... During
WW2, then became
Indefatigable School on Anglesey
Indefatigable
Old Boys Association
Web:
www.hms-worcester.co.uk
Records
Minute books
Registers
Publications
'The Proud History of the "Indefatigable' - from
Souvenir booklet Centenary
of the Indefatigable 1864-1964 (at Merseyside
Maritime Museum, Pier head,
Liverpool L3 1DW Tel: 051 236
1492)
'The Forgotten Fleet' by John Smart 1964 (at
Merseyside Maritime Museum,
Pier head, Liverpool L3 1DW Tel: 051 236
1492)
MERCURY at
HAMBLE
1885 - 1968
Mercury
Old Boy's Association
Membership
Secretary:
Richard Briggs (4920)
20 Beaconsfield
Way,
Earley
Reading,
Berkshire, RG6 5UX
Telephone: 0118 9621139
Email: ArbiBriggs@aol.com
Some records reputedly at Chatham Naval Records
Information: Hampshire Record Office, 20,
Southgate St, Winchester SO23 9EF
Publications
'Life Worth Living' The autobiography of C.B.
Fry, first published in 1939.
Reprinted by Pavilion Books Ltd., in
1986.
'C.B. The Life of Charles Burgess Fry' A
biography by Clive Ellis. Published
by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., in
1984.
'The Captain's Lady' A biography of Beatrice
"Ma" Fry by Ronald Morris.
Published by Chatto & Windus in 1985. ISBN
0-7011-2946-8
'Hamble, A Village History' A history of
Hamble
by Nicolas Robinson.
Includes a chapter on TS Mercury. Published
by
Kingfisher Railway
Publications in 1987.
'C.B. Fry, An English Hero' A definitive
biography by Iain Wilton..
Published by Richard Cohen Books in
1999.
ROYAL HOSPITAL SCHOOL:
GREENWICH & HOLBROOK
1712 -
Boys: 1000
R.H.S. Holbrook
Minute books
Registers
Publications: 'Greenwich Hospital' by P Newell
RUSSELL-COATS N. S. (DR. BARNADO'S) PARKSTONE
DORSET
1920 - 1964
Boys: 40
Liverpool
University Library
Minute
books
Registers
STORK (NAVY LEAGUE) HAMMERSMITH
1911- 1948
Boys: 60
WARSPITE (MARINE SOCIETY) at GRAYS
1756 - 1940
Boys: 200
Marine Society
202 Lambeth Rd
London
SE1
7JW
Tel: 0207 261 9535
Web: www.marine-society.org
Some records
WATTS NAVAL T.S. (DR
BARNADO'S) ELMHAM, NORFOLK
1906 - 1954
Boys: 300
Liverpool
University Library
Minute
books
Registers
MERCHANT CADET
SHIPS/COLLEGES
CONWAY at
MENAI
Aug 1859 - 1974
Boys: 140
Conway Association
Web: www.hmsconway.org
Some records
Publications:
'The Conway' by J. Masefield: pub. Heinemann
1953
'Century attained by pre-sea Training
Establishment (History &
Educational
Aims of HMS Conway)
PANGBOURNE COLLEGE, PANGBOURNE Nr READING
1917 -
Boys: 150 - 350
Old Pangbournian Association
Web: www.pangcoll.co.uk/op/
Some records
Publications:
'Pangbourne College' by L.C.
Stephens
Devitt & Moore cadet training ships
HARBINGER
HESPERUS
ILLAWARRA
MACQUARIE
MEDWAY
PORT
JACKSON
ST. GEORGE
WORCESTER at GREENHITHE
1862 - ?
Boys: 140
Old Worcesters Association
Web: www.hms-worcester.co.uk
Some records
Publications:
'Publications of the
"Worcester"' by F.H.
Stafford
'The Story of the "Worcester"' by G.
Steele
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SHIPS
CLIO at
BANGOR
1877 - May 1919
Boys: 260
Publications:
'The "Clio"' by Emrys W. Roberts (M.Ed
dissertation at University College,
Bangor, 1979 Ref 79.34) Science
Library Benoul
Rd Bangor Tel: 0248
351151
'Edwardian Anglesey' John Cowell, (J.B. Cowell,
1991)
Information
Llangefri
Record Office
Bangor Library
Tel:
0248 353479
Anglesey's Archives and Museums Education
Service
Department of Lifelong Learning and Leisure,
Council Offices,
Llangefni,
Anglesey LL77 7TW
Tel: 01248 752017. E-mail:
maalh@anglesey.gov.uk
Website: www.anglesey.gov.uk
Department of Culture & Leisure
Gwynedd
County Council
Caernarfan
Gwynedd
LL55 1SH
Tel: 0286
679089/679092
Place to visit
Bangor
Museum and Art Gallery
Ffordd Gwynedd,
Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1DT
Tel: 01248 353368. Fax 01248 370149
E-mail:
PatWest@gwynedd.gov.uk
CUMBERLAND (later
EMPRESS) GARELOCH
June 1869 - 1923
Boys: 360
Information:
Annual reports at
Mitchell
Library
North St
Glasgow
G3
7DN
Tel: 041 221 7030
ENDEAVOUR (FELTHAM INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ) at
FELTHAM
1866 - 1909
Boys: 150
GLRO
Minute Books
Registers
Some account
books
Publications: 'Feltham Industrial School' by
G.A.T. Lee
FORMIDABLE (later NATIONAL NAUTICAL SCHOOL) at
PORTISHEAD
Nov 1869 - 1906
Boys: 325
Bristol
Records Office
Brook Bond
Warehouse
Smeaton Road
Bristol
BS1 6XN
Tel: 0272
225692
Minute Books
Registers
Punishment
books
Some accounts books
Became National Nautical School at Portishead
1906 - 1982
Publications
'The Story of the Bristol Training Ship
"Formidable" by I.E. Chillcott:
pub 1880
GIBRALTAR at BELFAST
June 1872 - ?
Boys: 350
GOLIATH at GRAYS
Nov 1870 - Dec 1875
Boys: 500
GRAMPIAN at BELFAST
HAVANNAH at CARDIFF
1861 - 1905
Boys: 100
Some records at Cardiff Library
Publications:
'HMS "Havannah"' by J Mayberry
'Publications
of HMS "Havannah" by E.M. Morgan:
pub. 1969
'The "Havannah"' by R.G.
Williams (in Glamorgan
Family Publications Soc.
Journal No 12
1987)
MARS at DUNDEE
Sep 1869 - 1929
Boys: 300
Information
Dundee District Library
Central Library
The
Wellgate
Dundee
DD1 1DB
History
'The Mars Training Ship' - by Linda McGill
Website information:
groups.yahoo.com/group/dundee-history
www.sol.co.uk/s/scott.wilson/Mars.htm
MOUNT EDGCUMBE at SALTASH, PLYMOUTH
1877 - June 1920
Boys: 250
Possible information:
Devon
County Library
West Devon
Area
Central Library
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4
8AL
Naval Publications Library
Tavistock
Road
Drake Circus
Plymouth
Naval Maritime
Museum
Saltash
Cornwall
Pymouth Polytechnic
Faculty of Maritime
Studies
Drake Circus
Plymouth
Western Morning News
Leicester Harmsworth
House
65 New George St
Plymouth
Devon
& Cornwall Record Society
c/o
Dep. Of Publications & Archaeology
University of Exeter
Devon
EX4
4QH
Publications
'An Anchorage for Orphans' by Michael Ware (pub.
Western Morning News, 16
March 1974)
SHAFTESBURY at GRAYS
1877 - 1905
Boys: 400
Some records and accouts ledgers at:
Greater
London Records Office
40, Northampton
Road
EC1R 0HB
Tel: 0207 332 3820 & 3822
SOUTHAMPTON at HULL
Sep 1868 - 1912
Boys: 240
Some information at:
Kingston-upon-Hull
Record Office
79,
Lowgate
Kingston-upon-Hull
HU1 2AA
Tel: 0482 595102
The Local Studies Library
Central
Library
Albion St
Hull
Tel: 0482 22440
The Brynmor Jones Library
The
University
Cottingham Road
Hull
Tel: 0482 46311
Humberside Record Office
County
Hall
Beverley
Tel: 0482 867131
WELLESLEY at TYNEMOUTH
Jan 1868 - 1914
Boys: 300
Became Wellesley Nautical School 1914 - 2002
Wellesley Nautical School
Minute books
Some Accounts
books
Information
Newcastle
City Archives
Blandford
House
West Blandford St
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4JA
Local Studies Library
Central
Library
Princess Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumberland Record Office
Melton
Park
North Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tel: 091 236
2680