The first naval gunnery schools were established in the nineteenth century.
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Historical records confirm that the Royal Navy established an early gunnery school aboard HMS Excellent in 1830, supporting the claim that the first such schools were founded in the nineteenth century.
18th and 19th Century Education for Officers Harry W. Dickinson. other officers and in 1830 the Admiralty was persuaded to establish a gunnery school on board HMS Excellent moored in Portsmouth harbour. While the school was conceived out ...
This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the pre