Nautical Training Ships: An Illustrated History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848686960)

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 once-proud merchant marine declined in the latter years of the twentieth century.

Author: Phil Carradice
ISBN-10: 184868696X
ISBN-13: 9781848686960
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2009
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 292