The Marine Society

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The Marine Society
legal form Charity with Royal Charter
founding 1756
founder Jonas Hanway
Seat 202 Lambeth Rd, London SE1 7JW
motto For the Service of Our Country
In the service of our country
purpose Assistance to seafarers and aspiring seafarers
main emphasis Training and assistance to seafarers
method Scholarships, book publishing and distribution, transition homes and retraining measures
Action space Great Britain
Website https://www.marine-society.org/

The Marine Society is a not-for-profit foundation under Anglo-Welsh law with a royal charter, founded in 1756 at the beginning of the Seven Years War by Jonas Hanway (1712–1786) . Hanway was the director of the Findling Hospital and was responsible for the nutrition program for the poor. His aim was to keep penniless boys and "men of good character" off the streets of London and to bring personnel to the Royal Navy . Today, the Maritime Society is the world's oldest foundation with respect to seafaring .

history

Marine Society Headquarters

The first activities were recruiting men and boys for the Navy. The MS offered them board and lodging in the period up to the placement and gave the boys basic training. In the first year of activity, the Society recruited 1961 men and 1580 boys aged 13 and over. By the end of the Seven Years War there were 5,451 men and 5,174 boys. The boys and men trained by Hanway were more popular with the captains of the day than the squeezed sailors they were otherwise assigned. He helped the young men to have a respectable career that they would otherwise never have achieved.

In 1763 the company was almost dissolved, although it continued to provide boys with training as Reepschläger and in shipbuilding . In 1769, a charitable inheritance made it possible for the society to continue training boys.

Lower deck of the Warspite (1807), scale 1:48

In 1772 Parliament converted the foundation into a corporation with a Royal Charter by law. The parliament gave the order to train seafarers for war and merchant navy and to dress. From 1786, training before the start of seafaring was stipulated and practical training was given on ships anchored on the Thames . For this purpose, the sloop HMS Beatty was acquired, a 350-ton ship that became the world's first sailing training ship . The ship was led by a superintendent who was assisted by a mate , a headmaster, a boatswain and a cook. The Beatty was followed by several ships, almost all of which were anchored off Deptford or Greenwich . In 1862, the foundation acquired the HMS Warspite , a third-tier liner of the Royal Navy built in 1807 . This ship was followed by others, but the name remained the same from then on.

In 1940, when the last of these ships had been paid off, the foundation had recruited, trained and equipped a total of over 110,000 men for the war and merchant navy. The training of young men continued until 1944, when a major change was brought about by the looming Second World War .

After the war, the foundation set other priorities and helped people who could not afford this training to get training in seafaring. Financial support was given to young people pursuing a career in seafaring. Other foundations were also co-financed.

From 1974 to 1976 the foundation merged with the Seafarers Education Service , The Sailor's Home , Ensign Club , College of the Sea , British Ship Adoption Society , and Merchant Navy Comfort Service Trust . Furthermore, she concentrated her efforts on the general education and training of seafaring personnel. The foundations sponsored by the Marine Society include other well-known foundations, such as the Seaman's Hospital Society , the King George Fund for Sailors, the Sea Cadet Corps, the Outward Bound Schools, the Sail and Training Association, the Nautical Institute and the Annual National Service for Seafarers. Individuals are offered scholarships , financial assistance, resources, advice, and guidance.

Files

The Marine Society's files from 1756 to 1978 and the files of the merged foundations from 1919 to 1977 are kept in the archives of the Royal Museums Greenwich . In addition to the annual financial statements of the company, minutes of general meetings and other meetings, a lot of statistical material is stored on the people placed.

literature

About the Marine Society

  • J. Hanway (1770) The origin, progress and present state of the Marine Society
  • Marine Society (1772) The Bye-laws and Regulations of the Marine-Society

Images of the Marine Society training ship Warspite

  • HMS Warspite returning from circumnavigating the world in 1827

  • HMS Warspite and Musquite Brig at the salute, 1827

  • Sir John Hay, captain of the Warspite from 1841 to 1845

  • Training ship HMS Warspite 1877 off Greenwich

  • Warspite cadets dance the hornpipe , 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g unknown: History. In: Marine Society website. Marine Society, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Gordon Cook and Anna Pavlov: Disease in the Merchant Navy: A History of the Seamen's Hospital Society . CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-315-34693-9 , Chapter 5: The SHS's precursor; early meetings aimed at London's homeless: 'Most of the Destitute seem to be Sailors'.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k unknown: Marine Society. Quick overview. In: Oxford Reference website. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k unknown: The Marine Society & Sea Cadets. In: Website of the RMG. Royal Museums Greenwich, accessed December 22, 2019 .