‘CLIO.’—(Menai Straits.)
Certified February, 1878.
This vessel is for 200 boys (from 11 to 15 years of age), sent under the Industrial Schools Act, or partly paid for otherwise, and the ship is managed by “The North Wales, City of Chester, and Border Counties Industrial School Training Ship Society.” The first boy was admitted in September, 1877, and on the 13th of July, 1878, there were 197 boys on board; of these, 8 are “voluntary.” About 80 were from London, 50 from Manchester, 26 from Liverpool, and the rest from ten other places.
‘CONWAY.’—(Mersey.)
Established 1859.
A new vessel (late the ‘Nile’) was substituted in 1877 for the old ‘Conway,’ but it was rechristened with the old name, and the cost of alterations was £6000.
It is managed by “The Mercantile Marine Association,” and is intended chiefly to supply officers for the merchant navy. Boys are received from 12 to 16 years of ago. The average number of boys on board was 138, of whom 54 joined the merchant service. The number of boys received since the commencement up to 1877, was 1290, of whom 40 entered the Royal Navy, and almost all the others went into the Merchant Service.
The report gives no balance-sheet, but says that the school fees (40 guineas per annum for each boy) “covered the expenses” (presumably the ordinary expenses), and left a balance of £283.
‘CORNWALL.’—(Purfleet, Thames.)
Established 1859.