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HMS Southampton (1820)

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33: 53: 245:, were largely neglected and consequently often drifted into crime as a result of squalid living conditions and criminal associates. In 1846 the Education Department had offered grants to build workshops, workhouses or kitchens, and to provide schools, and the Committee of Council extended these industrial grants in 1856 and 1857. The aims were to prevent boys from falling into bad company and to give industrial training. However, the whole national picture was changed in 1860 when 337: 304:
at Hull, was established as a training ship in 1866. On 31 July 1868, the ship was officially certified as an industrial school ship, allowing it to take boys committed by magistrates. The vessel could accommodate 240 boys aged from 11 to 15. On 26 November 1879, three inmates set fire to the ship.
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imprisonment but had not previously been found guilty of a felony. Later acts allowed children to be committed if their mothers were convicted of a crime, if they were living with common or reputed prostitutes, or if under 16 years and had been assaulted or neglected likely to cause injury. The
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c. 118). Under this act, children under 14 years could be sent by two justices to an industrial school if not under proper control and guardianship, if an orphan, or in danger of adopting a criminal life. Children under 12 years could be committed if found guilty of an offence punishable by
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to take over the powers of the prison authorities; they could contribute to the upkeep of voluntary industrial schools, build new ones, or enter into an agreement with managers which resulted in children being committed for persistent truancy. However, following the
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to see her. One commented: "Her seasoned timbers will be turned scientifically into enduring articles of furniture, which will defy the worst efforts of railway porters or furniture removers to demolish."
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Certificated industrial training ships were special kinds of certified industrial schools which were set up to attempt to solve the problem of destitute children who, before the
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Another inmate informed the officer on watch and the fire was extinguished. Those responsible were charged with arson. By the end of 1909,
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From 1879 to 1900, she was under the command of Captain George Doherty Broad. Those present on the ship at the time of the
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company. She was towed from the Humber and on arrival, a Luncheon was held on board for 50 or so local notables.
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The story of the ship in the period 1821 to 1860 is told in the Naval Database website.
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these children were largely accommodated in Truant Schools and Day Industrial Schools.
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The ship was closed on 28 March 1912. The boys were transferred to the training ship
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The early 1830s see her making a voyage to India, Ceylon, and travelling as far as
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on 7 November 1820 and completed on 11 May 1821. On completion she went into
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Cowan, I.D. (1984). "Certified Industrial Training Ships c. 1860‐1913".
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Sent to Blyth in June 1912 to be broken up by the Hughes Bolckow company
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was moored off Sammy's Point. Sammy's Point is on the east bank of the
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Peter Higginbotham: Humber Industrial School Ship 'Southampton', Hull
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are listed on "1881 Ships in Port in the UK". At the time of the
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had trained 2,600 boys, 57 per cent of whom had gone into the
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Certified Industrial Training Ship at Sammy's Point, Hull
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The 1840s and 1850s see her at various times mainly in
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was the third ship of the Royal Navy to carry the name
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Index

HMS Southampton

fourth-rate
Southampton-class frigates
Deptford Dockyard
laid down
launched
ordinary
Singapore
Rio de Janeiro
Montevideo
Cape Town
ordinary
Sheerness
Coastguard
Harwich
Harwich
Hull
certified industrial training ship
Elementary Education Act 1870
industrial schools
Home Secretary
reformatory schools
Industrial Schools Act 1866
29 & 30 Vict.
Elementary Education Act 1870
school boards
Education Act 1876
River Hull
Humber

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