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 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

• Argentine Navy
  • ARA Presidente Sarmiento (Tall ship, now a museum ship)
  • ARA Libertad (Sailing ship)
• 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)
• China's People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Zheng He
  • Brave the Wave-class
• Colombian Navy
  • ARC Gloria of the Colombian Navy (Barque)
• Finnish Navy
  • Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy (Tall ship)
• 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.
• 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)
• New Zealand Navy
  • HMNZS Philomel of the Royal New Zealand Navy
• Peruvian Navy
  • BAP Unión of the Peruvian Navy (Barque)
• Polish Navy
  • ORP Iskra 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
• Kraljica Mora 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 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

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

Sail training vessels

Californian in San Diego, CA

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
• 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
• 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