STARTED in 1843 as a Ragged School in the slums of St. Giles's, the Shaftesbury Homes now run seven different homes, where 1,200 fatherless children are always being kept and trained to enable them to get established in life. In addition, there is the Arethusa, the famous ship which, starting as the last British frigate to go into action solely under sail, became tho Society's in 1874, and is now an up-to-date training-ship from which 3,500 boys have passed into the Navy and 6,500 into the Merchant Service. It is for extensive and urgently-needed repairs to the Arethusa that an additional sum of £1,000 is necessary this year.
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