Boys Band, Training Ship Empress, Helensburgh, Scotland
Members of the Boys Band posing on the deck of the Training Ship Empress, operated at Helensburgh (Dunbartonshire, Scotland) on the Clyde, by the Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association. The Empress replaced an earlier vessel, the Cumberland, destroyed by fire in 1889. The vessel, an Industrial Training establishment, trained boys in all aspects of seamanship and many went on to join one of the naval services
Picture No
10418987
Media ID
47549499
Size
4754px x 3113px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
early 20th century
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