ting information is given in 'British Seamen,' by Mr. T. Brassey,
M.P. In former editions of 'The Voyage Alone,' some of the Boys'
Training Ships were briefly described, and the author's profits from the
book have been distributed yearly in prizes and medals among some
hundreds of lads in these ships, approved for excellence in Seamanship,
Smartness, Scripture-knowledge, Swimming, and "Sums." In connection with
the continuance of this pleasant work, a brief description is given here
of all the Training Ships for boys, with the best wishes of the author
for their prosperous sail over the sea of life, and their safe arrival on
the happy shore above.

ROYAL NAVY TRAINING SHIPS FOR BOYS.

_There are Five regular Boys' Training Ships for the Royal Navy_,
_accommodating_ 3400 _boys_.

The 'Impregnable,' and 'Implacable' (with 'Lion'), at Devonport (for 700
boys); 'Ganges,' at Falmouth (500 boys); 'St. Vincent,' at Portsmouth
(700 boys); and 'Boscawen,' at Portland (500 boys). To each is attached
a brig for cruising during the summer months. The boys go through a
regular course of instruction at school, in seamanship and in gunnery,
till they are "rated," after a year or a little more, as 1st Class boys,
when they have a cruise in the brig. With respect to the school
instruction, the principle is to give the more backward boys more
schooling than the more advanced, and to this end the boys are divided
into Upper School and Lower School: the Upper School boys have one
forenoon and one afternoon a week in school, and the Lower School boys
twice that amount. The educational attainments of the Upper School
correspond to Standards VI., V., IV. of the New Code, and those of the
Lower School to Standards III. and II. Of course there is the division
into watches, as the routine of the ships is modelled on that of a
man-of-war.

With the exception of the band boys entered from industrial schools, no
boys are received who have been before a magistrate. It is gratifying to
find that as many good and respectable lads as are wanted can be had for
this glorious patriotic service. "The expense incurred in training
seamen amounts on an average to not less than 300 to 400 pounds for every
seaman in the navy:" 'British Seamen,' by T. Brassey, M.P. Longmans,
1877, page 158.

For training young officers there is the 'Britannia' (with the
'Hindostan') at Dartmouth, and two sons of the Commodore of the Royal
Canoe Club are amo