Seamen's Institute () was an
institute training
seamen in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
located at 8,
Praya East which is now the
Harcourt Building at
Gloucester Road,
Wan Chai
Wan Chai is situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road, Hong Kong, Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west and Bowen Road to th ...
.
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.
Wan Chai
Scouting and Guiding in Hong Kong
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