A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich / John Cooke and John Maule].

  • John Cooke
Date:
1855
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Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich / John Cooke and John Maule]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    navigation, the steam engine, &c., together -witli religious knowledge. The boys, being intended for the Royal Navy, enter into an engagement to serve continuously. The west wing is the Upper School, which consists of 400 boys, the sons of Officers, Seamen, and Marines, in the Queen's service, and of Officers and Seamen in the Merchant service. They are admitted between the ages of ten and eleven. The education in this school embraces such mathe- matical instruction as is necessary for a proper knowledge of the principles of navigation, nautical astronomy, the theory and practice of marine surveying, construction of charts, and the practical use of instruments for magnetical and astro- nomical purposes, together with the usual elements of an English education, including instruction in the doctrines of Christianity. A certain number of the Upper and Lower School boys receive instruction in the French language. The two wings contain the Upper and Lower School rooms, dormitories, lavatories, refectory, and chapel. Each wing is 315 feet long, with handsome fa9ades of the Doric order. The north and south termini or fa9ades of these wings are appropriated as apartments to the Superintending Lieutenant, Secretary of the Hospital, Head Master of the Nautical School, and Head Master of the Lower School. The wings are connected with the centre building by colonnades 180 feet in length, having two rows of Portland stone columns, of the Tuscan order. Adjoining the eastern wing is a very compact and admi- rably arranged observatory, completely fitted with mural, transit, and other telescopes, clocks, &c., for the use of the To the westward are the Masters' Library, the School Library, and Lecture and Reading Rooms for the boj^s, in which lectures are given weekly upon every variety of scientific subiects. A capacious Swimming-bath is attiiched to the gvound to the westward for the use of the boys ; and on the eastern side are the Kitchen, AVash-houses, Laun- dries, and other necessary offices.
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