Training ship

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A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is especially used for 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.

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, and character building for at-risk youths.

Notable training ships[]

Royal Navy[]

• Ganges
• Defiance
• Bristol
• Clio
• Conway
• Cornwall
• (2)
• Excellent
• Foudroyant
• Indefatigable (1914–)
• Lion (1871–) including adjacent Implacable
• Mars
• TS Mercury
• Mount Edgcumbe
• Northampton
• Southampton
• Warspite
• Warspite
• Worcester
• Wellesley
• St Vincent

Other navies[]

The BAP Union at Callao, in 2017

The second Gorch Fock in front of the Naval Academy Mürwik (Red Castle) in 2015

The Amerigo Vespucci at Venice, 2006

The JDS Kashima at Portsmouth, in 2008

• Algerian Navy
  • of the Algerian Navy
• Argentine Navy
  • ARA Presidente Sarmiento (Tall ship, now a museum ship)
  • ARA Libertad (Sailing ship)
• Bangladesh Navy
  • BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin of the Bangladesh Navy
• Brazilian Navy
  • Cisne Branco of the Brazilian Navy (Tall ship)
• Bulgarian Navy
  • Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy (Barquentine)
• Canadian Navy
  • HMCS Oriole of the Royal Canadian Navy (Sail training)
• Chilean Navy
  • Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy (Barquentine) (Tall ship)
• China's People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Zheng He
  • Liaoning, until 2019
• Colombian Navy
  • ARC Gloria of the Colombian Navy (Barque)
• Dominican Navy
  • ARD Juan Bautista Cambiaso of the Dominican Navy (Barquentine)(Tall ship)
• Finnish Navy
  • Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy (Tall ship)
  • Pohjanmaa of the Finnish Navy (Modern minelayer)
• Germany
  • The first Gorch Fock of Germany's Kriegsmarine (Barque, now a museum ship)
  • The second Gorch Fock of Germany's Bundesmarine (Tall ship)
• Indian Navy
  • INS Tir of the Indian Navy
• Indonesian Navy
  • KRI Dewaruci, navy tall sail ship
  • id:KRI Ki Hajar Dewantara (364), Yugoslavian made frigate for training purpose.
• Irish Naval Service
  • LÉ Setanta (A15), lighthouse tender converted into an auxiliary ship
• Italian Navy
  • Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy (Tall ship)
  • Palinuro of the Italian Navy (Tall ship)
• Japan
  • JDS Kashima of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• Mexican Navy
  • ARM Cuauhtémoc of the Mexican Navy (Tall ship)
• Royal Dutch Navy
  • of the Royal Netherlands Navy
  • of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Tall ship)
• New Zealand Navy
  • HMNZS Philomel of the Royal New Zealand Navy
• Peruvian Navy
  • BAP Unión of the Peruvian Navy (Barque)
• Polish Navy
  • of the Polish Navy
• Portuguese Navy
  • The second NRP Sagres
  • The third NRP Sagres
• Romanian Navy
  • Mircea of the Romanian Navy (Barque)
• Spanish Navy
  • Nautilus
  • Galatea (Barque, now a museum ship)
  • Juan Sebastián Elcano (Barquentine)
• Sri Lankan Navy
  • SLNS Gajabahu of the Sri Lankan Navy
• United States of America
  • USCGC Eagle of the United States Coast Guard (ex-SSS Horst Wessel of the Kriegsmarine)
  • USS Sable and USS Wolverine of the United States Navy, the only examples of dedicated training aircraft carriers, which were used for training naval aviators and landing signal officers rather than sailors
• Uruguayan Navy
  • ROU Capitán Miranda of the Uruguayan Navy (Staysail schooner)
• Venezuelan Navy
  • ARBV Simón Bolívar (BE-11) of the Venezuelan Navy (Barque)

Merchant fleet[]

SS John W. Brown

Sedov

• Christian Radich of Oslo, Norway
• Herzogin Cecilie Germany
• Belem France
• Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
• Khersones Ukrainia
• Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure of Croatia
• Pamir (Four-masted barque, 1905), sunk 1957, Germany
• Passat (Four-masted barque1911), decommissioned 1957, Germany
• Mir of Saint Petersburg, Russia
• STS Sedov of Murmansk, Russia
• Sørlandet of Kristiansand
• SS John W. Brown (1946– 1982) of New York, New York Board of Education (Liberty Ship)
• SS Twin Falls Victory (1972– 1982) as the SS John W. Brown II of New York, New York Board of Education (Victory Ship)
• Statsraad Lemkuhl of Bergen, Norway
• Worcester
• Danmark (ship) of Copenhagen, Denmark
• T.S. Dolphin Leith (1924–1977) of Scotland^[1]
• T.S. Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin, 1927) of Bombay, British-India
• T.S. Rajendra (1972) of Bombay, India
• T.S. Chanakya (1994) of Navi Mumbai, India
• of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

United States Maritime Administration Owned Training Ships[]

• TS General Rudder of the Texas Maritime Academy
• TS Empire State VI of the SUNY Maritime College
• TS Golden Bear of the California Maritime Academy
• TS Kennedy of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• TS State of Maine 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

Sail training vessels[]

Californian in San Diego, California

INS Tarangini

• Argo
• Atyla International Training Ship
• BAP Unión (BEV-161)
• Californian
• Dar Młodzieży
• Irving and Exy Johnson
• INS Tarangini
• INS Sudarshini
• INS Varuna
• Kaiwo Maru
• Kruzenshtern
• Nippon Maru
• Ocean Star
• Pacific Swift
• Tall Ship Pelican
• Picton Castle
• Pilgrim
• TS Royalist (1971)
• TS Royalist (2014)
• Stavros S Niarchos
• SV Tenacious
• Tole Mour
• Lady Washington
• Christian Radich

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.

See also[]

• Stone frigate

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Training ships at Wikimedia Commons