Training ship

A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house classrooms.

A port bow view of the Singapore training ship RSS PANGLIMA (P-68)

The hands-on aspect provided by sail training has also been used as a platform for everything from semesters at sea for undergraduate oceanography and biology students, marine science and physical science for high school students, to character building for at-risk youths.

Notable training ships

Royal Navy

Painting of the first Mersey boat race between cadets of HMS Conway (on the right) and London's HMS Worcester on 11 June 1891. Also moored in line are reformatory ships Clarence (centre, furthest away) and Akbar, and TS Indefatigable.[1]

Other navies

BAP Unión at Callao, in 2017
The second Gorch Fock in front of the Naval Academy Mürwik (Red Castle) in 2015
Amerigo Vespucci in Venice, 2006
JS Kashima in Portsmouth, in 2008

Merchant fleet

John W. Brown
Sedov

United States Maritime Administration owned training ships

Other sail training vessels

Californian in San Diego, California
Tenacious in 2010, largest wooden ship built in the UK for over 100 years.

In fiction

See also

References

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