Training ship

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.

In the Sea Cadet Corps all Units use a ship prefix "T.S.", followed by the ship's proper name. For example, the Fishguard Sea Cadets' ship's name is T.S. Skirmisher. The T.S. prefix is used as the Sea Cadets is not part of the Royal Navy, and cannot be prefixed "HMS".

Notable training ships

Royal Navy

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

Other navies

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

• ARA Presidente Sarmiento of the Argentine Navy
• ARA Libertad of the Argentine Navy
• Cisne Branco of the Brazilian Navy
• Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy
• HMCS Oriole of the Royal Canadian Navy
• Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy
• Zheng He of China's People's Liberation Army Navy
• ARC Gloria of the Colombian Navy
• Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy
• The first Gorch Fock of Germany's Kriegsmarine
• The second Gorch Fock of Germany's Bundesmarine
• INS Tir of the Indian Navy
• Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy
• JDS Kashima of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• ARM Cuauhtémoc of the Mexican Navy
• HMNZS Philomel of the Royal New Zealand Navy
• BAP Unión of the Peruvian Navy
• ORP Iskra of the Polish Navy
• The second NRP Sagres of the Portuguese Navy
• The third NRP Sagres of the Portuguese Navy
• Mircea of the Romanian Navy
• Nautilus of the Spanish Navy
• Galatea of the Spanish Navy
• Juan Sebastián Elcano of the Spanish Navy
• SLNS Gajabahu of the Sri Lankan Navy
• 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
• ROU Capitán Miranda of the Uruguayan Navy
• ARBV Simón Bolívar (BE-11) of the Venezuelan Navy

Merchant fleet

SS John W. Brown

Sedov

• Christian Radich of Oslo, Norway
• Herzogin Cecilie Germany
• Belem France
• Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
• Khersones Ukrainia
• Kraljica Mora Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure of Croatia
• Mir of St.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
• T.S. Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin, 1927) of Bombay, India
• T.S. Rajendra (1972) of Bombay, India
• T.S. Chanakya (1994) of Navi Mumbai, India
• T/S Kapitan Felix Oca of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

US MARAD 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
• T/V Liberator of the United States Merchant Marine Academy

Sail training vessels

Californian in San Diego, CA

INS Tarangini

• Californian
• Dar Młodzieży
• Irving and Exy Johnson
• INS Tarangini
• INS Sudarshini
• INS Varuna
• Stavros S Niarchos
• Pacific Swift
• Picton Castle
• Pilgrim
• TS Royalist
• SV Tenacious
• Tall Ship Pelican
• Tole Mour
• Lady Washington
• Nippon Maru
• Atyla

In fiction

• PRS James Randolph, an interplanetary spacecraft parked in Earth orbit in Robert A. Heinlein's novel, Space Cadet
• USS Republic (NCC-1371), a starship referred to in Star Trek
• Betty Jeanne, in the novel Fergus Crane by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

See also

• Stone frigate

External links

Media related to Training ships at Wikimedia Commons