APPENDIX IV 



LEITH NAUTICAL COLLEGE 



Leith Nautical College, Edinburgh, Scotland, was opened on the 4th February, 

 1903. It is wholly devoted to technical instruction in subjects directly connected 

 with the sea. It is a three-storey structure, plain but handsome, situated within 

 the Docks, the front being in the broad business street called Commercial Street, 

 near the railway termini and the tram cars. 



It has well-equipped physical and mechanical laboratories and excellent class- 

 rooms, well supplied with appliances for every branch of nautical education, 

 special care having been taken in the physical laboratory to provide for experi- 

 mental work in magnetism and electricity in regard to their seafaring applica- 

 tions, matters in which every modern ship-master and officer should be expert; 

 and, in the mechanical laboratory, for the teaching of seamanship, mechanical 

 testing, and shipbuilding. 



The teaching arrangements are framed to suit the needs of the migratory 

 seafaring community. Students can enter at any time, and attend for long 

 periods or for recurring short periods, as may be convenient to them. 



The programme of instruction is as follows : — 



(o) Preparation for the Board of Trade Examinations; 

 (6) Higher Nautical Education, including Naval Architecture and Marine 

 Engineering ; 



(c) Elementary and Special Nautical Instruction; 



(d) Radio-Telegraphy (Wireless Telegraphy). 



The Elementary and Special Nautical Instruction (c) is on the following 

 lines : — 



(o) Special classes for fishermen, in fishermen's navigation, weather 

 knowledge, knotting and splicing and rigger's work, and a short 

 course of ship surgery and medicine. 

 (&) Courses of instruction to Teachers in the fishing and smaller sea 

 ports. 



(c) A short course of popular evening lectures on nautical subiecii. 



(d) A short course of elementary navigation, and rope knotting and 



splicing, foi: boys who will shortly go to sea. Boys who are going 

 to sea should come to the Nautical College, for a period not exceed- 

 ing six months, for this specialized instruction. This will make 

 the teaching on board, by the ship-master, easier and pleasantcr, as 

 they will not be altogether ignorant of the subject when they join, 

 and so will be likely to get much more benefit from any teaching 

 given them on board. 



Apart from fishermen's classes carried on in the College, arrangements have 

 been made for similar classes being carried on in outlying fishing ports. Part 

 of the instruction is usually given by one of the day schools' teachers of the 

 locality. The College sends a special instructor to undertake such part of the 

 teaching as the day schools' teacher cannot give. 



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