The Royal Dockyard Schools and their Education System

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Notes

¹Mariner's Mirror 99:2 (2013), 228-233.

²Allen, ‘The Royal Dockyard Schools’; Luscombe, ‘The Devonport Royal Dockyard School: Apprentice Education, 1844-1971’.

³This data derived from the Dockyard Schools examination results contained in the National Archives of England and Wales, Kew (hereafter TNA) ADM 116/4722.

⁴TNA: ADM 116/4722 Regulations for the entry of apprentices to the various trades in His Majesty's Dockyards at home, Oct. 1941.

⁵The Payne memorandum ‘Shipwrights in H.M. Dockyards’ is included in ‘Dockyard Schools: Examination Results and Paucity of Shipwright Apprentices 1941-1945’, TNA: ADM 116/4722

⁶In 1945 the procedure for electrical apprentices so selected was changed. They were appointed to the RN Engineering College Keyham, for one year before proceeding to Greenwich.

⁷This table was derived by combining Dockyard Schools 1941 examination results given in TNA: ADM H6/4722 with 1937 entrance examination results given in CSC 10 8000.

⁸E. W. Luscombe, ‘The Devonport Royal Dockyard School: Apprentice Education, 1844- 1971’, The Devonshire Association for the Advancements of Science, Literature and the Arts, (2005).

⁹1941 and 1942 Dockyard Schools examination results are given in TNA: ADM 116/4722.

¹⁰The information in this paragraph was found in a collection of Sep. 1942 memos in TNA: ADM 116/4722 discussing the pros

¹¹D. K. Brown, A Century of Naval Construction (London, 1993), 263 and 343.

¹²www.portsmouthdockyard.org.uk/Eighty%20Six%20to%20One.pdf

¹³HM Dockyard Schools Syllabus, 1935 (HMSO).

¹⁴The numbers of approved positions by Yard are given in TNA: CSC 10.

¹⁵From the dockyard schools examination

¹⁶From the dockyard schools examination results contained in TNA: ADM H6/4722.

¹⁷The discussion and dispensation of the Ireton situation in what follows is taken from the continuing discussion of the 1942 Payne memorandum that lasted until March, 1945 and is contained in TNA: ADM H6/4722.

¹⁸Brown, A Century of Naval Construction,154-5.