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...rtmouth in 1863, where practically all naval cadets received their initial training until 1905. With the introduction of the Selborne Scheme in 1903, Naval Ca

...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

...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 ...tley Cooper Key|Astley C. Key]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>3 Sep, 1866{{NLDec68|p. 193}}|Succ

...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

He was appointed in command of [[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|H.M.S. ''Ganges'']] on 5 January, 1909.<ref>"Naval and Milit ...?'''|'''[[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|In Command, Shotley Training Establishment]]'''<br>5 Jan, 1909{{NLJan10|p. 320}}<ref>Vaughan-Lee 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

...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

...ich|Pelham Aldrich]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Impregnable (Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Impregnable'']]'''<br>23 Jan, 1899{{NLJan01|p. 269}}|Succeede ...ldrich]]'''|'''[[Training Service (Royal Navy)|Inspecting Captain of Boys' Training Ships]]'''<br>23 Jan, 1899<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Ap

...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 ...ke up flying, and qualified as a pilot on 31 March at the [[Central Flying School]]. He commissioned the ''Hermes'' at Chatham on 8 May, which was then work

*"A Sailor of the Old School" (Obituaries). ''The Times''. Saturday, 30 June, 1923. Issue '''43381''' ...e J. Anstruther]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Boscawen (Boys' Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Boscawen'']]'''<br>10 Jul, 1881{{NLDec81|p. 198}} &ndash; 30

...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 VII. Quarterly Examinations will be held on board the Training Ship, when any Cadet, who may consider himself competent, may be examined i

...br>'''[[Henry Boys|Henry Boys]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>18 May, 1874{{NLJun75|p. 144}}|Suc

...to become Midshipmen. Over the forty-six year life of ''Britannia'', the training and education changed continually, with seamanship and mathematics being th ...e months, "No cadet will be allowed to count more than three months in the training ship towards sea-time", and a Naval Cadet had to pass an examination before

...d upon as fair game by his seniors - had they not learned in the same hard school? - the baths were heated by pipes running along the bottom, at the side. Th ...Crimean War and the Mutiny, to go no further back in history. There was no training-ship of any sort at that time, and boys after passing the farcical prelimin

...il Burney]] as [[Training Service (Royal Navy)|Inspecting Captain of Boys' Training Ships]] on 4 November, 1907.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Officia ...thur C. B. Bromley]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Impregnable (Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Impregnable'']]'''<br>4 Nov, 1907{{NLOct08|p. 330}}|Succeeded

Coke was appointed to command the training brig ''Pilot'' on 30 August, 1889.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence". ...'''[[Robert Swinburne Lowry|Robert S. Lowry]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Ganges'']]'''<br>16 Jul, 1896{{NLOct98|p

...rd Domvile|Compton E. Domvile]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>12 Jun, 1890<ref>"Naval and Milita

...val career were dashed by colour-blindness but he was accepted for aircrew training by the Royal Air Force and this provided him with an interlude beyond the d The American flying-training school, to which he was posted, was near Los Angeles and his instructor, Mary Pick

...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

...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

...t Baron Fisher|John A. Fisher]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>1 Nov, 1886<ref>"Naval and Militar ...rd Domvile|Compton E. Domvile]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>16 Sep, 1889<ref>Domvile Service R

Gamble was educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross.<ref>"Points from Letters" (Letters to the Editor). ''The Times ...romley]]'''|'''[[Training Service (Royal Navy)|Inspecting Captain of Boys' Training Ships]]'''<br>20 Nov, 1901<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Ap

...'New Command'''|'''[[Portsmouth Signal School|Captain of Portsmouth Signal School]]'''<br>18 Nov, 1895<ref>Tufnell Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.|}} f. 1 ...as H. M. Jerram]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Boscawen (Boys' Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Boscawen'']]'''<br>14 Mar, 1902<ref>Tufnell Service Record.

...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

...Coote|Bernard T. Coote]]'''|'''[[Portsmouth|In Command, Physical Training School, Portsmouth]]'''<br>1 Jan, 1919{{NLMar20|p. 887}} &ndash; 22 Mar, 1920|Succ ...]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|In Command, Shotley Training Establishment]]'''<br>1 Mar, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 241}} &ndash; 15 May, 1925|Su

...), 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/>

..., 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

...Philip Streatfeild]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Impregnable (Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Impregnable'']]'''<br>8 Sep, 1915 &ndash; 10 Feb, 1916|Succee ...>'''[[Ernest Gillbe Barton|Ernest G. Barton]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Ganges'']]'''<br>15 Aug, 1919{{NLSep19|p

He was appointed Captain of the [[Portsmouth Navigation School]] on 20 June, 1930.{{SchofieldNav|p. 192}} ...]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Ganges (Boys' Training Establishment)|In Command, Shotley Training Establishment]]'''<br>15 May, 1925{{NLJul27|p. 197}} &ndash; 2 May, 1927|Su

...unemployed for the first half of 1884 before being appointed to the boys' training ship ''Ganges'' on 25 June, 1884.{{NLNov84|p. 213}} ...Hamilton|Frederick T. Hamilton]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Defiance (Torpedo Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Defiance'']]'''<br>1 Nov, 1900{{NLMay03|p. 246''a''}}

...Baron Hood|Arthur W. A. Hood]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>13 Jul, 1869{{NLSep70|p. 46}}|Succ

...W. E. Prothero]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Boscawen (Boys' Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Boscawen'']]'''<br>1 Jan, 1893<ref>"Naval & Military Intellig [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

A paper entitled "Lecture No 7" relating to war policy, deployment and naval training, delivered by Tristan Dannreuther to the officers of the British Mediterran ...eriod 1 April 1907 - 1 April 1910" delivered by Tristan Dannreuther at the School of Military Engineering, Royal Engineering Institute, Chatham on 28 Mar 191