Seamen's Institute

Seamen's Institute

Seamen's Institute (Chinese: “海員訓練學校”) was an institute training seamen in Hong Kong. It was located in No. 8, Praya East which is now Harcourt Building at Gloucester Road, Wan Chai.

In the early days of Hong Kong Scouting, the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch conducted non-regular activities in the institute.Fact|date=August 2007 The Colony Commissioner, the Reverend George Turner Waldegrave, of the Branch is the Chaplain in charge of the Seamen’s Institute.


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