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Schoolship

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School´ship`
n.1.A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
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To cure him of the theater bug, Jack was sent off to sea in early adolescence, spending two years aboard the schoolship Saratoga, learning the sea trade.
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He had watched her launching on the River Conway as a boy and was the last to command her HMS Conway - the last of a series of vessels used as stationary schoolships for Britain's Mercantile Marine Service Association since 1832 - passes under Menai Suspension Bridge in the care of tugs towards her moorings off Plas Newydd, seat of the Marquis of Anglesey.
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Edited version of a paper presented at the second national Alia local studies conference Guildford WA 12-13 November 1999 The following extract from Juliet Ludbrook's Schoolship kids of the Blue Funnel Line demonstrates many of the characteristics that make oral history interviews such an effective tool for researchers.
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