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..., at a point in their education when they were likely to be leaving public school. Once entered as {{NavCadRN}}s the boys were trained and educated for a con ...of Commissions and Warrants Branch), was convened to discuss the scheme of training for the Special Entry Naval Cadets, and tendered its report on 21 April.<re

...wn almost entirely as an administrator. The ''Excellent'' was, and is, the school of scientific gunnery, and after three years in her Hood was appointed Dire ...f that, useful as the navy was, the country could get on very well without it.

...l Civil Lord was added in 1912. Quorum for the Board was two members, and it issued its directives through the [[Permanent Secretary to the Board of Adm ...y became the Royal Navy's main fleet. The Channel Fleet was absorbed into it in 1909, and the Atlantic Fleet in 1912.

...or a year at a larger school, and, when 11 years old went to a preparatory school at Field House, Rottingdean, kept by the Messrs. Hewett, which [I] passed i ...entrance examination and passed into the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 July, 1872.<ref>Bacon. ''Earl

...), p. 28.</ref> was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. A naval engineer by training, in retirement Egerton also became interested in science, mathematics and a ...o Training School)|H.M.S. ''Vernon'']], the Torpedo, Mining and Electrical Training Establishment.<ref name=times4dec1923/>

...ulfilled, for the first thing I noticed in the Abbey was its smell. And so it was when I joined the ''Britannia''. ...nt from that of any other ship or building, an indefinable something, call it spirit if you will, which puts you into instant touch with her long-past li

...areer progression under the Selborne Scheme.<ref>''The New Scheme of Naval Training. Lecture by the Director of Naval Education. 11th May 1906''. p. 23/</ref>] ...troduced in 1903 whereby the [[Royal Navy]] consolidated initial entry and training for officers of the [[Military Branch (Royal Navy)|Military Branch]], [[Eng

...assed the examination he was made by the monitors (junior prefects) at the school to ask for a half-day's holiday. He was awarded the Freeman prize; a silve Kiddle was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1879.<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 38

...ng to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1873. There was then no engineering school at Cambridge, but Parsons attended lectures on mechanism and applied mechan Parsons at once began his engineering training by a four-year apprenticeship at the works of Sir William Armstrong & Co. a

...ool''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The foundation of a gunnery school in the [[Royal Navy]] has been attributed to Sir John Bechell and Captain W

...battleship {{UK-Alexandra}}. On 16 January, 1894 he was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Minotaur (1863)|''Minotaur'']]. Vivian was on 22 February, 1 ...fect the world's first aircraft carrier (fitted to carry seaplanes), until it was decided that Sheerness would serve as the headquarters of the service.

...entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet in the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1871. ...nt in July, 1905 to the ''Impregnable'' as inspecting captain of all boys' training ships. On 17 October, 1906, he was appointed a [[Naval Aide-de-Camp]] to K

...p used for the preliminary education of naval officers from 1859 to 1905. It was anchored first at Portsmouth, then Portland, and finally off the town o ...to become Midshipmen. Over the forty-six year life of ''Britannia'', the training and education changed continually, with seamanship and mathematics being th

As Drawing will prove a most useful qualification for Naval Officers, it is recommended that Candidates for the Service should be instructed therein ...eds in pausing the required Examination, he will be at once appointed to a Training Ship at Portsmouth or Devonport, for a period of not less than three months

...entrance examination and passed into the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 July, 1872.<ref>Bacon. ''Earl ...focused on gunnery and torpedoes at [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] before leaving to serve aboard ''Alexandra'' in the