Old Photograph James Arthur Training Ship Bridge Of Weir Scotland

Old photograph of the James Arthur Training Ship on the River Gryffe by Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. The training ship was used to train boys for a life in the Merchant Navy. She was a fully rigged brig with double topsail, 120ft in length, 23 feet beam and 9ft between decks. The ship was fully equipped in gear and stores, as if bound on a foreign voyage. She wasmanned by a crew of 22 boys under the command of a Captain. The cost of building the vessel was around £3,000 and was gifted by Mrs Arthur of Barshaw in memory of her husband James. The ship was launched in 1886. The crew learned their seacraft on the river Gryffe and were the only sailors who never left dry land.



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