Liverpool.- Training Ship Indefatigable.- Minute Book, manuscript

Liverpool.- Training Ship Indefatigable.- Minute Book, D.s., manuscript, 254pp., ruled in red, several printed reports and papers tipped-in, original reverse calf, worn with some loss, red gilt morocco label on upper cover, lacks spine, folio, 1890-1901. *** The Training Ship Indefatigable, stationed at Liverpool was founded in 1865 for poor and orphaned boys whose fathers were seamen. The school helped boys from difficult social backgrounds to gain the skills necessary for a life at sea. Indefatigable was founded to prepare boys for life at sea as a member of the deck crew.The school closed as demand for merchant seamen declined after the Second World War.

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