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for every vessel to have a closet for accommodation of crew 

 on deck, and also in other minor matters, which, though 

 perhaps necessary on board a ship, every practical 

 fisherman knows to be perfectly inapplicable to a fishing 

 vessel, though accommodation of the kind last mentioned 

 is desirable. 



These are mainly composed of boys sent from some 

 union, reformatory, training-ship, industrial school or 

 boys' home. There are two classes in the trade, the 

 indoor and the outdoor. Boys are usually sent to sea on 

 probation, some for as long a term as six months, to enable 

 them to see whether they wish to become apprentices. 

 It usually turns out that they do wish to be bound. In the 

 case of an indoor apprentice the usual plan is for the 

 master to agree to teach him the business of a fisherman 

 and seaman, and provide him with sufficient meat, drink, 

 lodging, washing, medicine, medical attendance and pay 

 him a nominal sum per annum, and further provide all 

 clothes, sea bedding, wearing apparel, and necessaries. 

 This is the legal part of the business, but the custom is 

 for the master to allow the apprentice say, eighteenpence 

 per diem (the amount varies at different ports) for each day 

 that the vessel is in port. This is usually known as " spend- 

 ing money." This apprentice will usually reside with his 

 master, and live at the same table when ashore, but 

 sometimes when an owner has several vessels he will not 

 have sufficient accommodation at his own house. He will 

 therefore find them a respectable lodging, most probably 

 with the man or men whom he employs to do the necessary 

 part of the work connected with the vessels ashore. These 

 boys cannot help being happy and comfortable unless by 

 their own acts. It is a noted fact in most fishing ports, 

 and is to be seen every day, that boys going to sea for the 



