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 (1849) from 1874 to 1933.
• Buzzard (1887) from 1904 to 1921 (renamed President in 1911).
• Bristol (D23), a 1973 destroyer used for training from 1987 to 2020.
• Clio (1858) from 1876 to c.1919.
• Conway, a series of three training ships from 1859 to 1956 and then a shore-based school.
• Defiance (1861) from 1884 to 1931.
• Duncan (F80), a 1955 frigate used for training from 1969 to 1985.
• Cornwall
• Eastbourne (F73), a 1957 frigate used for training from 1971 to 1985.
• Exmouth
• Excellent, a series of three training ships from 1830 to 1892 before moving ashore.
• Foudroyant
• Ganges (1821) from 1865 to 1905; continuing renamed Tenedos III, Indus V and Impregnable III until 1923.
• TS Indefatigable including ex-HMS Phaeton (1883)
• Lion, including adjacent Implacable
• Mars (1848) from 1869 to 1929.
• Mercury
• TS Mercury
• Mount Edgecumbe, ex-HMS Winchester (1822) renamed Conway (1861-76), from 1876 to 1920.
• Northampton (1876) from 1894 to 1905.
• President (1829) from 1862 to 1903.
• Southampton (1820) from 1866 to 1912.
• Trincomalee (1817) from 1860 to 1903, continuing renamed Foudroyant until 1986.
• Warspite (1877)
• Warspite (1922)
• Worcester, a series of three training ships from 1862 to 1968.
• Wellesley
• St Vincent (1815) from 1862 to 1905.

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
• Pakistan Navy
  • HMS Diadem (84)
• 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
  • USS Constitution, of the United States Navy
  • 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
• TV Bluefin of the Australian Maritime College
• MV Stephen Brown Permanently Moored vessel of the Australian Maritime College

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