For training young officers there is the ‘Britannia’ (with the ‘Hindostan’) at Dartmouth, and two sons of the Commodore of the Royal Canoe Club are among the pupils.
‘AKBAR.’—(Mersey.)
Established 1856.
The vessel is managed by “The Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association,” which has also a girls’ reformatory and a farm school. The report for December 31, 1877, shews that during the year 79 boys were admitted between 11 and 17 years of age (all of them under sentence of a magistrate), and 59 were discharged (of whom 43 went to sea), leaving 198 in the ship and about 100 besides “under detention,” or on license elsewhere. The total number admitted since 1856 was 1393, of whom 731 went to sea, 130 went to friends, 73 were transferred, and 59 died.
In January, 1878, the ship parted from her moorings in a gale, and this and repairs caused an expense of about £500. The ordinary expenditure of the year is about £3800; the average number on board is 190, and of these 134 could swim.
‘ARETHUSA.’—(Greenhithe, Thames.)
Opened August, 1874.
This vessel is the new sister ship of the ‘Chichester,’ and is described below with the other vessel.
‘CHICHESTER.’—(Greenhithe, Thames.)
Established 1866.