RNTE Shotley
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Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley, known in the Royal Navy as Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., was a naval training establishment at Shotley, near Ipswich in Suffolk. Starting in 1905, it trained boys for naval service until 1973 (The school-leaving age was raised to 16 so ended the recruitment of 15-year-old boy sailors). In September 1973, HMS Ganges admitted adult entrants to the Royal Navy who only underwent 6 weeks training (6-week wonders) (the same as at HMS Raleigh near Plymouth) It finally closed in 1976. It had a mixed reputation in the Royal Navy, both for its reputed harsh methods of training boys in order to turn out professionally able, self-reliant ratings and for the professionalism of its former trainees. It is particularly famous for its 143-foot (44 m)-high mast which all boys under training were required to ascend, at least to the half-moon and for the mast manning ceremonies held whenever a dignitary visited the establishment.
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During the later 1980s and until 1999, RNTE Shotley was used as a residential centre for civilian police officers to complete their basic training. Forces which used this centre included Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Thames Valley and South Wales.[1] The Suffolk and Essex police forces used the site on an ad hoc basis in 2007.[2]
In fiction
In Arthur Ransome's books We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea and Secret Water, the character Commander Walker is an officer stationed at Shotley.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- RNTE Shotley Pictures and information Summer 2007
- HMS Ganges Association Web site
- Site photos taken between 2006 and 2009
- HMS GANGES (RNTE Shotley) Books Historical books and DVDs of HMS GANGES.
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- Military schools in the United Kingdom
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