Before and After, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields

Before (on joining) and after (ready for sea) photos of a boy recruit on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868, James Hall and other local businessmen set up a charity to provide shelter for Tyneside waifs and train young men for naval service. Their base from 1874 was the Wellesley until a fire in 1914 forced the institution ashore to become the Wellesley Nautical School

Businessmen Charitable Joining Nautical Northumberland Orphan Orphans Recruit Scruffy Shields Skills Tyne Tyneside Urchin Waifs Wellesley

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