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Date Posted: 13:37:19 08/03/02 Sat
Author: Tony Dalton
Subject: HMS ST VINCENT ?

I have been trying to establish if this school became HMS St. Vincent. Could anyone confirm or deny? If so, when did the Admiralty actually bestow the name upon it?

GOSPORT - ASHBURTON HOUSE

From ‘The Illustrated London News’, April 12th, 1863

The Admiralty are about to take a lease of Lord Ashburton’s mansion and grounds on the shore of Stoke’s Bay, which have recently been purchased by the War Department. It is the intention of the Admiralty, when the house and grounds are handed over to them, to fit the mansion up as a college for naval cadets. The mansion is situated at the western end of Stoke’s Bay, immediately opposite the Palace of Osborne and the lawn extends to within fifty yards of high-water mark. The approach to the house is by a handsome drive with Gothic lodges and entrance-gates. A flight of steps lead to the porch, which gives entry to a noble hall, right and left of which are rooms of unusual size and height, admirably adapted for mess and schoolrooms, lecture-hall, and library. The upper storey contains thirty bedrooms capable of giving accommodation at once to one hundred cadets. A large garden, which extends from the back of the house, would be amply sufficient to supply the establishment all the year round with fruit and vegetables, while a ten-acre field adjacent to the lawn would furnish a capital playground. Forty acres of land altogether immediately surround the house. The shingle beach in front of the mansion affords a capital spot for the cadets to haul and stow their light pulling gigs, while beyond low-water mark the nature of the ground will afford an anchorage where large sailing-boats can be moored. The sleeping accommodation, being at present limited to 100 boys, would, of course, not be sufficient for a naval college where there is an average of two hundred cadets; but a wing could be added at little expense, and this addition would leave nothing to be desired in the mansion and estate. It would he contiguous to a Government dockyard; would he sufficiently distant, being two miles from Gosport, from any town to protect the pupils from the temptations thrown in the way of youths in a populous neighbourhood; and would be situated on a dry, gravely soil, with a southerly aspect, and near enough to the beach to have ready access to boats and sea-going tenders.
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Tony

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