Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS St Vincent was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located in Gosport, Portsmouth. The name was given to the barracks and training establishment in Portsmouth in 1927, after the one that been set up aboard the old first rate HMS St Vincent in 1862. The new HMS St Vincent was commissioned on 1 June 1927, originally like its predecessor as a training establishment for boys and juniors. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the boys were evacuated to the Isle of Man, where they merged with those evacuated from HMS Caledonia to form HMS St George, which was formally established in 1939.