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Seamen's Institute in Hong Kong
Seamen's Institute
Traditional Chinese海員訓練學校
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Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationHói yùhn fan lihn hohk haauh
JyutpingHoi jyun fan lin hok haau

Seamen's Institute (Chinese: 海員訓練學校) was an institute training seamen in Hong Kong located at 8, Praya East which is now the Harcourt Building at Gloucester Road, Wan Chai.

In the early days of Hong Kong Scouting, the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch conducted non-regular activities in the institute. The Colony Commissioner, the Reverend George Turner Waldegrave, of the branch was the chaplain in charge of the Seamen's Institute.

22°16′44″N 114°10′12″E / 22.2790°N 114.1701°E / 22.2790; 114.1701


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