Like a wicked Noah's Ark : the Nautical School ships Vernon & Sobraon / Sarah Luke
- Bib ID:
- 8542473
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Luke, Sarah, author
- Description:
-
- North Melbourne, Vic : Arcadia, 2020
- ©2020
- xxii, 362 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922454065 (paperback)
- Summary:
-
Step back in time to 1860s Sydney, when ragged children populated the harbour city's slums, picking pockets and scraping a living selling matches and watercress. Neglected youths formed the city's gangs, thieving and assaulting the unwary. These 'larrikins' often ended up in gaol, and received a thorough criminal education from Faginesque professors of the art. In 1867 a solution to this problem was found. Fitted out for the reception of New South Wales' delinquent and abandoned boys, a Nautical School Ship was moored permanently within sight of Circular Quay on Sydney Harbour. The Colony's prisons were drained of their young inmates, and they were herded together in their dozens -- and later, hundreds -- on board. Like a Wicked Noah's Ark is the full and close-up history of this ground-breaking experiment in juvenile reformation, which operated continuously until 1911 on the Vernon and Sobraon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
-
- Vernon (Ship)
- Sobraon (Ship)
- Reformatories -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History -- 19th century
- Trade schools -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History -- 19th century
- Juvenile delinquency -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History -- 19th century
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Australian
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2020
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Getting to the bottom of Balmain's dunnies : a short history of a Sydney suburb's sanitation / Fergus Fricke
- Representing the slum : popular journalism in a late nineteenth-century city / Alan Mayne
- Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk
- Earliest pubs in Sydney (CBD) 1788-1848 : index to sources & listed by name of publican & pub / compiled by Elizabeth Hook
- Earliest pubs in Outer Sydney 1788-1848 : index to sources & listed by nameof publican & pub / compiled by Elizabeth Hook