SCHOOL SHIP FOR BOYS.
A committee of shipowners and other interested parties has been formed in the SorJand district of Norway for the purpose of inaugurating a school-ship for training boys for the Norwegian mercantile marine. It is said that an order has been placed with a firm of shipbuilders in Norway for the construction of a full-rigged three-masted sailing-ship of 600 tons gross, with accommodation for 80 cadets and a crew of 10 men. She is to be built to the highest class of tho Norske Veritas, with an 8 h.p. motor for the wireless installation and electric lighting, and delivery is to be made in April or May, 1927. This vessel will be the second sea-going training-ship registered in Norway, the other being tho Bergen-owned Statsraad Lehmkuhl, and what is of equal interest and importance, in view of the practical non-existence of sailing-ship construction to-day, is that she will be the first vessel of her olnss to be built in Europe since the East Asiatic Company, of Copenhagen, had their five : masted barque Kobenhavn constructed by Messrs. Uamage and Fer-' guson, at Leith, m 1921. ' "
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 24
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