T.S Vindicatix was one of the National Sea Training School for the British Merchant Navy. Back in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s hundreds of young lads signed up and headed off for a job that became a experience of a lifetime. The Vindicatrix opened in 1939 and closed in 1967 during those years more than 70.000 boys passed through the school, they were trained as stewards or deckhands under the heading of the National Sea Training School. Many of the boys aged between 15 and 18, came from Norwich and Norfolk where they joined lads from all corners of Great Britain.

Many of the boys trained on the ship which was moored on the Sharpness Gloucester Canal overlooking the River Severn and the camp was on the hill side beside the canal where the boys lived until the last week of the course when they moved on board the ship, the school was run like clockwork and it was famous for it harshness (and I really mean harshness) in preparing boys for life at sea.