This film documentary centres on male officer training at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. The college began at Portsmouth in 1859 when the sloop HMS Britannnia was towed up the creek to act as a training ship for Royal Navy seaman who could enrol from the age of 12. In September 1863 the ship was towed from Portland into Dartmouth harbour, berthed near Sandquay and joined a year later by HMS Hindostan. The BRNC building was built between 1902 and 1905.