TRAINING WORK ABOARD THE M.V. DURHAM.—At once a trading vessel and a training school for young officers, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor vessel Durham is performing a valuable work for Britain’s Royal Merchant Navy. The cadets who form the vessel s deck crew have an extensive course of instruction, in which training in all phases of modern seamanship is balanced With varied sporting activities. (1) A group of the cadets aboard the Durham; (2) tacking against the winds in the ship’s cutter-rigged sailing boat;(3) two of the cadets engaged in a fenching match: (4) working out a problem in navigation in the classroom, under the eye of the ship's schoolmaster, Mr. G. D. Baldwin, and (5) “shooting the sun from the bridge of the vessel.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 30 January 1937, Page 6

TRAINING WORK ABOARD THE M.V. DURHAM.—At once a trading vessel and a training school for young officers, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor vessel Durham is performing a valuable work for Britain’s Royal Merchant Navy. The cadets who form the vessel s deck crew have an extensive course of instruction, in which training in all phases of modern seamanship is balanced With varied sporting activities. (1) A group of the cadets aboard the Durham; (2) tacking against the winds in the ship’s cutter-rigged sailing boat;(3) two of the cadets engaged in a fenching match: (4) working out a problem in navigation in the classroom, under the eye of the ship's schoolmaster, Mr. G. D. Baldwin, and (5) “shooting the sun from the bridge of the vessel.