The long covered way c1920. the boys still dressed in white duck suits.Along
either side were the majority of the boys mess decks.
The Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley was commissioned
on 4th. October 1905 as a Boys training ship.Shown here is the mast with135
boys counted on and above the shrouds.More boys on the safty netting and telegraph
post.Believed to be photographed in 1914.Health and Safety rules not applying!The
lower section of the mast came from H.M.S.Cordelia,with the upper sections being
recovered from H.M.S.Agincourt.The whole being erected to give the boys experince
aloft.
Seamanship
training room Shotley Barracks where boys received basic classroom instruction
on seamanship.c1920
Swimming
bath where non swimmers learnt to swim,shown here in a harness on a pole held
here by an instructor.This at Shotley barracks.By the mid 1950`s the harness
had gone and non swimmers had to jump or be pushed in at the deep end and make
their own way to the shallow end.The swimming test was still taken in a heavy
canvas duck suit.c1920
