Paucity of Shipwrights in Royal Naval Dockyards during the Second World War

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Notes

¹ Payne's memorandum ‘Shipwrights in H.M. Dockyards’, the discussion it provoked, the dockyard apprenticeship process, dockyard schools examination results and cadetships awarded are all gathered (some 175 unnumbered pages) in ‘Dockyard Schools: Examination Results and Paucity of Shipwright Apprentices 1941–1945’, The National Archives of England and Wales, Kew (hereafter TNA) TNA ADM 116/4722 (Admiralty dockyards).

² ‘Regulations for the entry of Apprentices to the various Trades in His Majesty's Dockyards at Home’, Oct. 1941 (contained in TNA ADM 116/4722).

³ Rosyth dockyard was closed down after the First World War and re-opened in 1939, hence the absence of data in some tables.

⁴ The passing levels and the entrance examination results list for 1941 are given in TNA CSC 10 4834

⁵ www.portsmouthdockyard.org.uk/1942%20-%201944%20My%20Career%20Begins.pdf