GOING TO SEA AT SCHOOL
Nearly 400,000 British school-child-ren are now regularly "going down to the sea in classrooms." The British Ship Adoption Society reports that in all, 1,082 British merchant vessels of all types had been adopted by 900 schools. — m nn— rr i"i~— — — —ii i wi— — — im ■— iibwiii
Another 80 schools are in a queue to adopt ships. The thousands of school-children regularly follow the course of "their" ships on big wall charts during geography lessons. At least half of Britain's whaling vessels in the Antarctic fleet belong ' to the scheme.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 1, 16 January 1952, Page 3
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