WW1 HMS Worcester Training Establishment Officer Portrait Photograph

For sale is a WW1 Period Young Officer Portrait Photograph/ CDV who served with the Royal Navy, HMS Worcester which was a Training Establishment. This CDV is in good condition, and it’s believed that the sailors name was called George. This measures 4cm width x 7.6cm in height. 

  In this portrait photograph you can very clearly see his cap insignia marked Worcester, and his buttons.    The Thames Nautical Training College, as it is now called, was, for over a hundred years, situated aboard ships named HMS Worcester.   London shipowners, marine insurance underwriters and merchants subscribed to its founding as an institution which would provide trained officers for a seagoing career. The British Admiralty loaned the 50-gun, 1,500-ton frigate HMS Worcester for the scheme, and in 1862 the Thames Marine Officer Training School was opened. She was to find her eventual home off Greenhithe, in the Thames, in 1871, after temporary berths at Blackwall, Erith and Southend.   This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.