industrialschool

One of the worst, evidently - "St Michael’s Industrial School Cappoquin, Co Waterford Opened:1877 Status:Closed 1999 Management:Sisters of Mercy THE STORY of St Michael’s Industrial School in Cappoquin is characterised by physical and sexual abuse, a dysfunctional managing nun with an alcohol problem and severe underfeeding in the early years. The Sisters of Mercy school opened in 1877 as a conventional industrial school but became a group home in 1974. The inquiry found that the children were “severely underfed for a long period in the 1940s and 1950s”. However, it was the era of the group home that gave rise to the most complaints. A nun with the pseudonym Sr Callida was put in charge of Group Home A in 1975 but staff became “increasingly alarmed” at how she ran the home. She had an alcohol problem, drank in front of the children and went absent for days without notice, leaving a young woman in charge of 16 young children. ... ... ..." From - www.irishtimes.com/news/most-complaints-concerned-physica...

More here - im2.studioaad.webfactional.com/ryan-report/report/2-8?page=1

"The State and society must never presume that because a child has been placed in care, he or she is safe from any form of abuse." From a personal story by Paddy Doyle, see - www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-was-abused-in-same-instit...

beachcomber australia Your comments link to some grim reading.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, I am sorry about that; it actually put me off my dinner. Has anyone found where this was? Part of the Mt St Joseph Convent? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317440

Thanks for sharing with our Group!

Great pic thanks for sharing.

The Sobraon became the HMAS Tingira. I have one of your sailors. He must be AWOL perhaps? www.flickr.com/photos/highranger/7435874192/in/photostream In 1911 on the formation of the Royal Australian Navy the SOBRAON passed to Commonwealth control for use as a Boys Training Ship. In May of the same year, Commadander Charles L. Lewin, RN, was appointed as the first Carrnander of the ‘Training School. On 18th Novextber 1911 Navy Order No 81 promulgated information that SOBRAON would be renamed TINGIRA. Boys On Deck - Knot Tying Instruction and Practice TINGIRA comtmissioned in the Royal Australian Navy on 25th April 1912 and on 1st June the first batch of 37 boys recruited by New South Wales joined for training. These were followed by drafts from other States to complete the first intake of 100 boys. Entry was limited to boys between the ages of 14 and a half and 16 years. Recruits were bound to serve for seven years following their eighteenth birthday. Minimum height standards varied from 4 feet 10 inches at 14 and a half, to 5 feet 2 inches at 16 years, with chest measurenent 29 inches to 32 inches. The last draft of TINGIRA boys began their training in 1926 and in August that year recruiting of boys ceased. On 30th June 1921 TINGIRA paid off for disposal. In the fifteen years and one month of her RAN commission 2,941 boys were trained in her to take their place as sailors in the Fleet. Tingira remained moored at Garden Island or Rose Bay for her entire naval career.

Just posted by the ANMM -

The house I currently live in is named after this ship as the original occupant did his training on board.

My Grandfather John Ashley was committed to this Ship in 1899, at the age of ten. He was found by Police sleeping out at night and charged at Balmain.

jricho50 Thanks, jricho50, for adding this history. You might be interested in other Sobraon images on Photo Investigator. jo.carpenter1 jo.carpenter1 That is interesting to know how your house came to be named! AB

My grandfather (Wilfred Purcell) was committed to the Sobraon on 1 January 2010 at age 14 years, 9 months. His cousin (Roy Purcell) had been commited there 3 years earlier.

Purcell 1895 Thanks, Purcell 1895, for sharing; you might be interested in some other images of the Sobraon in our image catalogue, Photo Investigator and some information on the records we hold. AB