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
• Northampton
• Warspite
• Worcester
• Wellesley
• St Vincent

Other navies

• HMCS Oriole of the Royal Canadian Navy

Amerigo Vespucci, in Venice, 2006

JDS Kashima in 2008

• ARBV Simón Bolívar (BE-11) of the Venezuelan Navy
• Nautilus of the Spanish Navy
• Galatea of the Spanish Navy
• ORP Iskra of the Polish Navy
• JDS Kashima of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• Juan Sebastián Elcano of the Spanish Navy
• Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy
• The first Gorch Fock of the Kriegsmarine
• The second Gorch Fock of the Bundesmarine
• Sagres II of the Portuguese Navy
• NRP Sagres III of the Portuguese Navy
• Cisne Branco of the Brazilian Navy
• USCGC Eagle of the United States Coast Guard (ex-SSS Horst Wessel of the Kriegsmarine).
• Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy
• Mircea of the Romanian Navy
• Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy
• ARA Libertad of the Argentine Navy
• Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy
• SLNS Gajabahu of the Sri Lankan Navy
• HMNZS Philomel of the New Zealand Navy
• Cuauhtémoc of the Mexican Navy
• ARC Gloria of the Colombian Navy
• ROU Capitán Miranda of the Uruguayan Navy
• ARA Libertad of the Argentine Navy

Merchant fleet

SS John W. Brown

Sedov

• Christian Radich of Oslo, Norway
• Herzogin Cecilie Germany
• Belem France
• Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
• Khersones Ukrainia
• Mir of St.Petersburg, Russia
• 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

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

Californian in San Diego, CA

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

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

• Sail training
• Stone frigate