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Training Ship Exmouth, flag signalling drill
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Training Ship Exmouth, flag signalling drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth learning flag signalling. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment for pauper children, most of whom came from London workhouses
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This evocative photograph captures a moment in time as uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth engage in a flag signalling drill off the coast of Grays in Essex, England, in 1904. The Exmouth, a naval training establishment run by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, provided seafaring skills and education to pauper children who had been institutionalized in London workhouses and asylums. Dressed in their crisp, navy uniforms, the boys intently focus on their task, using semaphore flags to send coded messages to the ship's crew. The Exmouth, moored in the Thames Estuary, offered these children a chance to escape the poverty and hardships of their past lives, providing them with valuable employment opportunities in the navy and helping to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. The rigorous training they received on the ship not only prepared them for careers at sea but also instilled discipline and responsibility. This historical image offers a poignant reminder of the importance of education and the transformative power of vocational training for those facing adversity in the early 1900s.
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