Military schools and courses of instruction in the science and art of war, / in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sardinia, England, and the United States. Drawn from recent official reports and documents. Revised Edition

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FT Flying Topmen, (gabiers volants.)

S Supplementary.

L Left the Navy, or died.

Date of Admission	NA	Left
		CoT	T	FT	S	L	Total
Present April 1, 1861	493	. .	. .	. .	. .	. .	. .
Admitted in 1861	275	10	32	32	12	10	96
Admitted in 1862	712	30	202	66	157	54	509
Admitted in 1863	579	30	183	115	205	38	571
Admitted in 1864	580	31	173	152	212	28	596
Admitted in 1865	545	33	191	115	186	64	589
Admitted in 1866	540	39	190	110	158	72	569
Total	3,724	173	971	590	930	266	2,930

The chambers of maritime commerce at Bordeaux, Cette, Marseilles, Ajaccio, Havre, &c., have established similar nautical schools and placed them under the supervision of the government.

[NAVAL APPRENTICE SCHOOLS.]

There have been since 1824, in every one of the five naval stations of France, elementary schools, intended to give to the apprentices in the various workshops a degree of elementary knowledge, on the system of monitorial or mutual instruction. After some years of prosperity they were abandoned, in consequence of the great aversion then generally manifested against this method. The only one that remained was the school at Rochefort, which was under the superintendence of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. But in 1828 and 1829, under the ministry of Martignac, the Baronet Hyde de Neuville ordered their reëstablishment. Every one of these schools organized itself in its own way, and it was only in 1851 that a decree of April 7th prescribes uniform regulations.

We have nothing to say here on these apprentice-schools, which are simply primary schools for adults, to which are added special schools for rowing. Their professional instruction is given in the various workshops of the port, to which they have been assigned; the apprentice school has had during the year 1866, 954 pupils.

[SCHOOLS OF BOATSWAINS.]

The navy maintains schools called “école de maistrance” (maistrance corps of under-officers of a ship,) where a certain number of workmen from the arsenals, chosen by open competition, receive the special theoretical instruction required for the boatswain and foremen of the various workshops.