Ec mckenzie biography of albert

Ec mckenzie biography of albert: After becoming the pastor of the

Alice Street Bermondsey about Albert was born on 23 October He was the youngest of ten brothers and sisters. He attended the near by Webb Street School and by the time he left aged 14 his father had died and his all brothers and sisters had left home. The Arethusa moored on the Thames. There were few job opportunities in Bermondsey in those days so Albert was lucky to be taken in by the Lord Shaftesbury charity which had purchased HMS Aretusa from the Royal Navy and converted her into a naval training school.

Arethusa was permanently moored on the Thames at Greenhithe near Gravesend. She took in young boys at a time and over the course of 18 months taught them everything they needed to know to become sailors in either the merchant or the Royal Navy. The battleship Neptune in Neptune was based in Scapa Flow. Vindictive before the Raid on Zeebrugge.