After three years he moved the school into a building that lay outside Danzig at the mouth of the Radaune River because the St. Jacob Church was inadequate.
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The maintenance of the school came from the revenues of the port of Danzig, and it was supervised by a group of merchants, ship owners and ship captains (such as Johann Diedrich Longé) under the city senate.
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Under the leadership of King Wilhelm III, and the Minister of Finance Hans von Bülow, the Prussian Cabinet ordered on 20 June 1817 the creation of a navigation school for the building and training of officers for seagoing vessels.
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