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. As with receiving ships or accommodation ships, which were often hulked warships in the 19th century, when used to bear on their books the shore personnel of a naval station, that were generally replaced by shore facilities commissioned as stone frigates, most "Training Ships" of the British Sea Cadet Corps, by example, are shore facilities.
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 to character-building for youths.
Notable training ships
Royal Navy
- from 1874 to 1933.
- , a series of training ships from 1860 to 1906.
- Britannia, a series of two training ships from 1859 to 1905.
- , a 1973 destroyer used for training from 1987 to 2020.
- from 1904 to 1921.
- from 1860 to 1902.
- from 1876 to c.1919.
- , a series of three training ships from 1859 to 1956, and then a shore-based school.
- Wellesley |Cornwall]
- from 1884 to 1931.
- , a 1955 frigate used for training from 1969 to 1985.
- , a 1957 frigate used for training from 1971 to 1985.
- , a series of three gunnery training ships from 1830 to 1892 before moving ashore.
- , the Royal Navy's first specially commissioned training ship; renamed HMS Worcester after 1945.
- , training ship for gunnery from 1862 to 1884, and for boys from 1891 to 1897. See also Trincomalee.
- from 1865 to 1905; continuing renamed Tenedos III, Indus V and Impregnable III until 1923.
- , formerly the French Duguay-Rouin renamed in 1805, from 1855 to c.1949.
- , a series of training ships between 1862 and 1929
- , a series of two training ships from 1865 to 1941, including the former.
- , a 1963 destroyer used for training from 1980 to 1993.
- from 1871 to 1905.
- from 1869 to 1929.
- , a naval training establishment founded as a ship in 1885.
- Mount Edgecumbe, formerly, renamed Conway, used from 1876 to 1920.
- from 1894 to 1905.
- from 1862 to 1903.
- from 1866 to 1912.
- from 1860 to 1903, continuing renamed TS Foudroyant until 1986.
- , a series of three training ships from 1862 to 1940.
- Cornwall |Wellesley].
- , a series of three training ships from 1862 to 1968.
- from 1862 to 1905.
Other navies
- Algerian Navy
- * El-Mellah
- Argentine Navy
- *
- *
- Bangladesh Navy
- * BNS [Shaheed Ruhul Amin #Career in Bangladesh|BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin]
- Brazilian Navy
- * Cisne Branco
- Bulgarian Navy
- *
- Royal Canadian Navy
- *
- * HMCS Grisle
- Chilean Navy
- *
- Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy
- *Qi Jiguang
- *Zheng He
- * Brave the Wave-class
- *
- Colombian Navy
- *
- Dominican Navy
- *
- Ecuadorian Navy
- * BAE Guayas
- Finnish Navy
- * Suomen Joutsen
- *
- French Navy
- * Jeanne d'Arc |Jeanne d'Arc]
- German Navy
- *, of the Kriegsmarine
- *, of the Bundesmarine
- Indian Navy
- *, sail training ship commissioned in 2012.
- *, sail training ship commissioned in 1997.
- *, cadet training ship commissioned in 1986.
- *, sail training ship commissioned in 1981.
- Indonesian Navy
- *
- *
- *
- * KRI Ki Hajar Dewantara
- Irish Naval Service
- *
- Italian Navy
- *
- *
- Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- *
- Mexican Navy
- *
- Royal Dutch Navy
- *
- *
- New Zealand Navy
- *
- Pakistan Navy
- * PNS Babur, formerly, bought in 1956 and used for training from 1961 to 1963.
- *, formerly Prince William, bought in 2010.
- Peruvian Navy
- *
- Polish Navy
- *
- Portuguese Navy
- * Dom Fernando II e Glória, 1843 frigate used for artillery training from 1865 to 1940.
- * Pedro Nunes, formerly the British clipper , intended for training from 1896 but unused.
- * The second NRP Sagres
- * The third
- Romanian Navy
- *
- Spanish Navy
- * Nautilus
- * Galatea
- *
- * '
- Sri Lankan Navy
- *
- United States Navy
- *, of the United States Navy
- *, of the United States Coast Guard
- *, of the United States Navy
- *, of the United States Navy
- Uruguayan Navy
- *
- Vietnamese Navy
- * Le Quy Don
- Venezuelan Navy'''
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Merchant fleet
- Christian Radich, Norway
- Herzogin Cecilie, Germany
- , France
- , Russia
- , Ukraine
- Kraljica Mora, Croatia
- , Germany, sunk 1957
- , Germany
- , Russia
- , Russia
- , Norway
- , USA
- John W. Brown II, USA
- Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Norway
- , Denmark
- TS Dolphin Leith, United Kingdom
- TS Dufferin, British India
- TS Rajendra, India
- TS, India
- of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific
- of the Australian Maritime College
- MV Stephen Brown Permanently Moored vessel of the Australian Maritime College
United States Maritime Administration–owned training ships
- TS Kennedy of the Texas A&M University at Galveston
- TS Empire State VII of the State [University of New York Maritime College|SUNY Maritime College]
- TS Golden Bear of the California State University Maritime Academy
- TS Patriot State II of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- of the Maine Maritime Academy
- TS State of Michigan of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy
- T/V Kings Pointer of the United States [Merchant Marine Academy]
- of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
- T/V Freedom Star of the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education
Other sail training vessels
- , schooner launched in 2006.
- , schooner launched in 1984.
- , brigantine launched in 1904.
- , launched in 1984.
- Christian Radich
- Dar Młodzieży
- , schooner launched in 1973.
- and Exy Johnson, twin brigantines launched in 2002.
- Lady Washington
- Malcolm Miller
- , schooner launched in 1991.
- , 1911 barque used as TS Arethusa II from 1932 to 1940 and then 1945 to 1975.
- , former trawler converted to barque for use 1997 onward.
- , a series of two ships launched in 1971 and 2014.
- Stavros S Niarchos
- , barque launched in 2000.
- Tole Mour
In fiction
- PRS James Randolph, an interplanetary spacecraft parked in Earth orbit in Robert A. Heinlein's novel, Space Cadet.
- Betty Jeanne, in the novel Fergus Crane by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.
- The anime series Girls und Panzer makes use of an overblown application of the term "school ship" by introducing carrier-type vessels supporting federal schools and accompanying living communities.