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This is the link (below) to EKM PowerShop who are the company that supply the tools and hosting for this website - I have been on the internet since 1996 and been involved with numerous internet companies and a lot of them follow the trend of the high street, have no interest in customer service. EKM are refreshingly different, they have a brilliant, user friendly software package and really helpful, knowledgable and obliging support staff. I am more than happy with EKM. You can buy cheaper, but in this case I prefer quality and reliability. They also design web sites, but did not design this one, I did, you can probably tell this site is an enthusiastic amateurs attempt ☺
Below is the boarding school Training Ship Mercury - HMS Gannet - moored in the Hamble River (circa 1968) - Hampshire - England. Click on the photo to go to the Mercury Old Boys' Association's superb web site that was set up and is run by Membership Secretary Richard Briggs (4920). TS Mercury (1885 - 1968) trained boys, to prepare them for entry into the Navy.
Below - yes - you're right - they are hammocks - used in the above ship whilst it was a boarding school. ( photo taken from wooden deck - (floor) - level looking upwards ) Notice the horizontal black pipes on the left and right ? they are the heating pipes, two each side, for the whole deck area - of about 100 hammocks - in other words, completely useless ! Also see the roof, it's made of non insulated, single layer, corrugated metal sheets. In the old UK winters, we had the same amount of ice inside the ship as on the outside ! I have personal experience, at the school, of the famous winter of 1963. Oh! dear, that's blown it, I've given away a clue to my age ! In fact, I was also alive through the even more infamous winter of 1947 ! ( Only just, was born July 1947, so don't remember much ! ) According to my grandchildren, I am so old, I am probably Noah's brother. Obviously, not true ! however, I was a member of the ARK crew. Back to the photo, you can see 3 officers (staff), standing right at the back, making an inspection of the ship.
Here you can see, me, with the cigarette and accompanied by some school mates, in those same hammocks, smoking - thrice illegally - (1) under age ( we're all between 12 and 16 years of age ) + (2) against school rules and + (3) at night on a ship made of wood ! Got caught once, on a different occasion, carrying cigarettes and received a caning, '6 of the best' from the Headmaster, Commander Hoyle. It did not stop me smoking, just made me much more wary of getting caught again, which I wasn't, throughout the 4 years of my attendance at this esteemed establishment. ( I don't smoke now, eventually, got some sense )
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Same ship - (below) - HMS Gannet - (built 1878) - now renovated to it's former glory, showing how it was, as a gun ship in the Royal Navy, before it became a boarding school. It (she) is now on show at Chatham Dockyard - Kent - England. Click on the photo to go to the Historic Naval Ships Association's web site - which will then give you direct access to the Chatham Dockyard Site - (look for chdt.org.uk). Chatham is the Dockyard that built Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (launched circa 1765). Which, as we all know, is now on show at Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire, England.
Scroll down to see - HMS Gannet under sail - circa 1894. She carried, 13 Officers and Warrant Officers + 27 Petty Officers + 64 Seamen + 11 Boys + 24 Marines. ( and no, before you ask, I was not on board (in 1890) when this photo was taken, although I would not have minded as it looks as if it would have been a great experience ) Click on the photo below to be taken to a site by Phil Russell giving a fascinating history of HMS Gannet.
Phew! If, after reading all that about hammocks and stuff, you're wondering why all this is on a food web site? It's because there is a Mercury Old Boys Association and we are trying to trace all the 'old boys' scattered world wide. Maybe, one of them will come across this web site and get in touch :-)
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