• Archival Series

Victorian Naval Logs

To access these records

Please contact Public Record Office Victoria:

Postal Address: PO Box 2100, North Melbourne VIC 3051

Phone: (03) 9348 5600

Website: http://prov.vic.gov.au/contact-us/

Reference Number

Quote this number to access your records: Public Record Office of Victoria Reference Number, VPRS 11976/P0001/1

Records Location

Details

Victorian Naval Logs are held by Public Record Office Victoria. The records were purchased at auction in 1999. There is no formal system of arrangement and control. Unit 1 of this series is the Victorian Naval Training Ship for Boys Register (VPRS 11976, Unit 1). It dates from 1865 to 1876 and provides detailed information of boys who were housed on board industrial training ships in that period. It lists: the names of the boys; The name of the ship on which they were housed; the period for which they were housed on the ship; their previous location; their destination after serving their sentence on the ship.

Access Conditions

Open

Records

Unit 1 of this series is the Victorian Naval Training Ship for Boys Register and it contains information about boys who were working on the following ships which were reformatories::

  • the Nelson
  • the Deborah
  • the Success
  • the Sir Harry Smith

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