Monument record TQ 67 SE 1223 - HMS Gordon, Royal Navy Training Establishment, National Sea Training School, Commercial Place, Gravesend, Kent

Second World War Royal Navy Training Establishment at the National Sea Training School, Commercial Place, Gravesend, for conscripts who had chosen to serve in the Merchant Navy. It was commissioned Gordon in 1941 and HMS Gordon in 1943. It provided basic and key skills needed for service, utilising the rooms of the 4 storey Victorian brick building and the jetty on the riverside for seamanship skills. It was decommissioned as a naval estblishment in 1944 and resumed normal Merchant Navy training by late in the year or early 1945. The building was demolished c. 1980. The site is now occupied by apartments known as Heritage Quay.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : Site no longer extant
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 14/09/06

R. Derham, 01/01/00, School for Seamen (ISBN O 86023 661 7) (Bibliographic reference). SKE14036.

R. Derham, 01/01/00, School for Seamen (ISBN O 86023 661 7) (Bibliographic reference). Ske14036.