FEWER CADETS
During 1931. the number of trained youths entered into the British Merchant .Navy from the Gravesend Sea School was: 415, or 149 fewer than in the previous year,, states the "Syren arid Shipping." This decline is quite understandable,, considering, the diminished demand duo to the-depression in the shipping industry^ The report of the Management Committee, of .which Sir E. Burton Chadwick is, chairman, states that the school has, however, maintained its proportion of beginners supplied to merchant shipsj, and there has been no falling.off in quality. Last year the;-number of youths, first sent into the Merchant Navy'by all train-ing--establishments in the United Kingdom,1 exclusive o£ -cadets and apprentices, was 814, Gravesend being responsible for 51 per cent., or about tho same proportion.; as-in 1930. The record, year in the history of the institution was 1926, when i the output of trained lads was 1056.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 24
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