Girls get training in seamanship
Learning naval traditions and discipline and the techniques of boating, camping, drumming, knotting and signalling are some of the activities offered to trainees in the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps classes on Wednesday evening. The classes are open to girls aged between 12 and 18. Seventeen trainees have enrolled so far this year. The commanding officer of the corps (Mrs C. Calcroft) said that the corps could cater for about 40 trainees a year. The corps is a youth organisation with a training syllabus similar to that of the Sea Cadets. The girls are taught various techniques of seamanship. They work their way through a system of ranks, sitting tests to reach a higher rank. The classes are run annually, beginning in February and ending in December. Instruction is given by three women officers, a Sea Cadet instructor and a Sea Cadet officer.
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Press, 17 March 1977, Page 30
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