_Photo by_] [_Turner & Drinkwater_ The High School for Girls, Bridlington. (_Founded 1905_). ] Of the same class is the MARINE or NAVIGATION SCHOOL belonging to the Hull Trinity House. This, founded in 1786, now provides board, clothing, and education for about 150 boys, who are intended for a sea-faring life. So valuable is the education they receive in all that belongs to a sailor’s life, that each of the ‘white-ducked’ boys is said to ‘carry a captain’s certificate in his pocket’ when he leaves the school. [Illustration: SEAL OF THE GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, HULL.] A school of a very special kind was that conducted on board the H.M. TRAINING SHIP ‘SOUTHAMPTON.’ The _Southampton_, an old ‘three-decker,’ after serving as a battleship in the early years of last century, was sent to the Humber to become a floating _Industrial School_. For forty-three years it fulfilled its duty, during which time some 2,600 boys were educated on it for a life at sea.[74] Footnote 74: A photograph of the _Southampton_ is given on page 299. * * * * * In towns private schools of all classes were increasing rapidly when the nineteenth century opened. _A Directory of Hull_ for the year 1831 shows that there were then in the town seven Ladies’ Boarding Academies, four Gentlemen’s Boarding Academies, twelve Classical and Commercial Academies, and no fewer than seventy-four Day Schools. The following is the advertisement issued by the Principal of a _Commercial and Mathematical Academy_ in the year 1787. In it the mysterious letters appended to the Principal’s name may be taken to stand for ‘Writing Master.’ HULL, JULY 11th, 1787. _At the Commercial and Mathematical Academy._ On the SOUTH-SIDE of the DOCK, Facing the NEW-BRIDGE; GENTLEMENS’ CHILDREN are instructed in the first principles of English, so as to be enabled to read and write their native Language with elegance and propriety; the English Grammar agreeable to the strictest rules of Syntax, resolving a sentence into its different parts of speech. The free and natural method of Writing, and striking by command of hand; Arithmetic, Merchants’ Accounts, or the Italian Method of Book-Keeping; Mensuration; Gauging; Surveying of Land; Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; Euclids Elements; Navigation; Algebra, and the Use of the Globes. By _J. WATSON_, W. M. YOUNG GENTLEMEN are Boarded and taught Geography, by familiar lectures, founded on rational principles and demonstration, and such as are of age and capacity taught to read Milton and Young, with proper emphasis and cadence. N.B. A separate Apartment for YOUNG LADIES. * * * * *