Training ship

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

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.

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

• Arethusa
• Defiance
• Bristol
• Clio
• Conway
• Duncan
• Cornwall
• Eastbourne
• Exmouth
• Excellent
• Foudroyant
• Ganges
• Indefatigable
• Lion, including adjacent Implacable
• Mars
• Mercury
• TS Mercury
• Mount Edgcumbe
• Northampton
• Southampton
• Warspite (1877)
• Warspite (1922)
• Worcester
• Wellesley
• St Vincent

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

• Algerian Navy
  • El-Mellah
• Argentine Navy
  • ARA Presidente Sarmiento
  • ARA Libertad
• Bangladesh Navy
  • BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin
• Brazilian Navy
  • Cisne Branco
• Bulgarian Navy
  • Kaliakra
• Royal Canadian Navy
  • Oriole (sail training)
  • HMCS Grisle
• Chilean Navy
  • Esmeralda
• Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Zheng He
  • Brave the Wave-class
  • Liaoning
• Colombian Navy
  • ARC Gloria
• Dominican Navy
  • Juan Bautista Cambiaso
• Finnish Navy
  • Suomen Joutsen
  • Pohjanmaa
• German Navy
  • Gorch Fock (1933), of the Kriegsmarine
  • Gorch Fock (1958), of the Bundesmarine
• Indian Navy
  • INS Tir
• Indonesian Navy
  • KRI Dewaruci
  • KRI Arung Samudera
  • KRI Bima Suci
  • KRI Ki Hajar Dewantara
• Irish Naval Service
  • LÉ Setanta
• Italian Navy
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Palinuro
• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • JS Kashima
• Mexican Navy
  • ARM Cuauhtémoc
• Royal Dutch Navy
  • HNLMS Van Kinsbergen
  • HNLMS Urania
• New Zealand Navy
  • HMNZS Philomel
• Peruvian Navy
  • BAP Unión
• Polish Navy
  • ORP Iskra
• Portuguese Navy
  • The second NRP Sagres
  • The third NRP Sagres
• Romanian Navy
  • Mircea
• Spanish Navy
  • Nautilus
  • Galatea
  • Juan Sebastián de Elcano
• Sri Lankan Navy
  • SLNS Gajabahu
• United States
  • USCGC Eagle, of the United States Coast Guard
  • USS Sable, of the United States Navy
  • USS Wolverine, of the United States Navy
• Uruguayan Navy
  • Capitán Miranda
• Venezuelan Navy
  • Simón Bolívar

Merchant fleet

John W. Brown

Sedov

• MV Cape Don
• Christian Radich, Norway
• Herzogin Cecilie, Germany
• Belem, France
• Kruzenshtern, Russia
• Khersones, Ukraine
• Kraljica Mora, Croatia
• Pamir, Germany, sunk 1957
• Passat, Germany
• STS Mir, Russia
• STS Sedov, Russia
• Sørlandet, Norway
• John W. Brown, USA
• John W. Brown II, USA
• Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Norway
• Worcester
• Danmark, Denmark
• TS Dolphin Leith, United Kingdom
• TS Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin), British India
• TS Rajendra, India
• TS Chanakya, India
• TS Kapitan Felix Oca of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

United States Maritime Administration owned training ships

• TS General Rudder of the Texas A&M University at Galveston
• TS Empire State VI of the SUNY Maritime College
• TS Golden Bear of the California State University 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
• T/V Liberator 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

Tarangini

• Argo
• Atyla
• Californian
• Christian Radich
• Dar Młodzieży
• Harvey Gamage
• Exy Johnson
• Irving Johnson
• Kaiwo Maru
• Kruzenshtern
• Lady Washington
• Malcolm Miller
• Nippon Maru
• Ocean Star
• Pacific Swift
• Pelican of London
• Picton Castle
• Pilgrim
• TS Royalist (1971)
• TS Royalist (2014)
• Sir Winston Churchill
• Stavros S Niarchos
• INS Sudarshini
• INS Tarangini
• Tenacious
• Tole Mour
• SSV Tabor Boy
• BAP Unión
• INS Varuna

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

External links

Media related to Training ships at Wikimedia Commons