Figure 1.--Here we see the boys of the training ship Warspite at Grays, Essex, during 1932. The boys are training for their sports and display. Here we see the nautical singers receiving tehir instructions before a rehearsal of the sea shanties which they will sing

The Marine Society began training boys in the 18th century. It first obtained the old merchant vessel Beaty (1786). Finally the Navy loaned the Society an old warship--the Warspite. This was the first of several vessels using the same name (1862). I think it was at first moored at the Society;s facility at Deptford. The Society moved the Warspitedown the Thames to Greenhithe (1901). The Warspite continued to be operated until World War II. It accommodate as many as 200 boys each year and the Society estimates that it had trained and equipped more than 35,000 boys nearly the same amount for the merchant service. On the previous page we see the boys of the training ship Warspite at Grays, Essex, during 1932 training for their sports and display. The picture shows the boys hoisting the Sheer Legs is a nautical evolution carried out by the boys as they sing sea shanties. Here we see the nautical singers receiving tehir instructions before a rehearsal of the sea shanties which they will sing (figure 1). The boys are training for their sports and display. The picture shows the boys hoisting the Sheer Legs is a nautical evolution carried out by the boys as they sing sea shanties. Teams compete in this and they are timed. The Royal Navy decommissioned Warspite fearing that the Luftwaffe would target it (1940).

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