#Naval College

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University of Greenwich - Old Royal Naval College by John Wolfe Via Flickr: Greenwich - London - 2023

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[thewales-family]

The Prince of Wales visits The Lord High Admiral's Divisions at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England -December 14th 2023.

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[ltwilliammowett]

Double school desk - Chatham Naval College, depicts ship portraits, "RN" and other nautical themes, 1851

#naval artifacts #school desk #chatham naval college #1851 #midshipman monday #age of sail

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Prince of Wales attends The Lord High Admiral's Divisions

Prince William during a visit to The Lord High Admiral's Divisions at Britannia Royal Naval College on 14 December 2023 in Dartmouth, England.

His Royal Highness attended a training course at the Britannia Royal Naval College in 2008, following on from his father, His Majesty The King, and his grandfather, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who both passed through the college.

📸: Chris Jackson - WPA Pool / Getty Images

#Prince William #Prince of Wales #British Royal Family #The Lord High Admiral's Divisions #Britannia Royal Naval College #Dartmouth #England #Royal Navy Cadets

[oswincoleman]

A new behind the scenes picture of Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, and Tom Sturridge as Morpheus filming episode 3 of The Sandman at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich!

Shared by oldroyalnavalcollege on Instagram.

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[vox-anglosphere]

Happier times with King Charles and his sons at Sandhurst Academy

#King Charles #Prince William #Prince Harry #House of Windsor #Sandhurst Naval College #monarchy #brf #father & sons #UK

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the götheborg is Here

#ignore the slightly weird cropping of this image there was a police boat in the way of the other half of the naval college :/ #ALSO shoutout to the person in the coolest outfit of all time ever who was also there looking at the ship #age of sail #greenwich #götheborg #beeps

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Jacksonville NAS vs. Duke University football game ticket - 1942.

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US Naval Academy Sports

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An illustration of the lieutenant governor inspecting the class at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth Dockyard in the early 19th century, from the 1899 book A Sailor’s Life Under Four Sovereigns (Internet Archive), by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel. After serving at sea as midshipmen, these boys would eventually pass for lieutenant in the Royal Navy (hopefully). In his memoir, Keppel described his curriculum as having “in addition to school, French, drawing, and dancing masters, also fencing.”

The student week [at the Royal Naval College] was heavily dominated by mathematics with almost 30 hours’ instruction and considerable evening work. The few contemporary accounts that survive stress the repetitive nature of the work and the requirement to memorise huge amounts of material. Lessons took place in a large single room but each pupil was allocated an individual cabin described as ‘about seven foot square, with a window except for the corner ones, which at the monthly changes were occupied by those who had been oftenest on the black list and did not require daylight’. Cabins could be locked and a degree of privacy, unusual in early nineteenth-century public schools, could be attained. A student writing home in February 1818 noted ‘I have a nice little cabin all by myself and always keep the door locked ... we have coffee and milk for breakfast every morning, very good dinners, also suppers’.

— Harry W. Dickinson, Educating the Royal Navy: 18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

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Always liked this guy. Herndon climb at the U.S Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.

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The Prince of Wales visits The Lord High Admiral's Divisions at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England -December 14th 2023.

#prince william #prince of wales #british royal family #england #2023 #december 2023 #britannia royal naval college #the wales #my edit

[ltwilliammowett]

Midshipman Hunter and the Education Problem

The young, mostly children, who joined the Navy often had the problem of acquiring the necessary basics that were expected of them. Of course, the young gentlemen had gone to school before, but that was not enough to give them the necessary knowledge of mathematics, foreign languages, navigation, chemistry and politics. So in 1729, the Royal Navy introduced a Naval College to give the boys a basic education. However, not all boys attended this college (which only increased in the middle of the 19th century and later became compulsory) and many remained with the old system of being taught on board a ship, either by the captain, the lieutenants or a schoolmaster on board. 

Midshipmen studying for their Lieutenant’s examination aboard HMS Pallas. Sketch by Lt. Gabriel Bray, 1774 (x)  

Charles Hunter, 19 years old, a midshipman in the US Navy, described in his journal his somewhat unusual experience of such an improvised school aboard USS Potomac in 1831. He and his comrades had to share a room with the Commodore's dairy goat and her goatlings. This shows how highly regarded this schooling was in the eyes of the Commodore and other Officers. But the schoolmaster himself was just as big a problem. Hunter describes him as "a dull religious book learning young man who does not care at all whether we learn anything”  (x). They could read novels or write letters while at school, but they didn't really learn anything, according to Hunter. Naval schoolmasters, whether Royal Navy or US Navy, were not assigned to every ship, and even when they were, they had a reputation for being ineffective. This was partly because of the lack of training of these schoolmasters, but also because midshipmen were treated as officers first and students second, so schoolmasters had to scrape together lessons with anyone who was not on duty and could be forced to attend.

US Naval Academy Annapolis, 19th century (x)

Hunter therefore decided 1832 to teach himself, as he needed the knowledge for his lieutenant's exam. However, his study times were often incompatible with his service and so he had to put them on the back burner. This problem of lack of or poor teaching led the US Navy to start thinking about a Naval College. Commodore Arthur Sinclair had already introduced it in 1819 while in command of the Norfolk Navy Yard on the frigate Guerriere. Up to 50 midshipmen were taught there. However, this nautical school was disbanded in 1828 when the Guerriere had to return to service. A proper Naval College was not built until 1845 in Annapolis and that one is still in use today.

#naval history #midshipman hunter #1831 / 32 #education #naval colleges #age of sail #midshipmen monday

[aneverydaything]

Day 1601, 10 November 2022

#Greenwich #autumn #fall #November #Canary Wharf #Queen's House #old royal naval college #history #skyscrapers #architecture #contrast #London #England #UK

[helluvatimes]

Raining Coals

Paul Cocksedge’s “Coalescence” stunning visitors in the Old Royal Naval College in London. Photo credit: Sarah Chua.

The lighting around this spot was rather dim. The Leica had to push up the ISO to 3200 to get a shutter speed of a mere 1/30 second. As a result, noise level in the shadows came up to some 20 odd. This was very conspicuous at actual size but seemed to look fine at this size.

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[sometimeslondon]

The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

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