Training ship
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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, old hulks used to house classrooms, and those used for training at sea.
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 and discipling for at risk youths.
[edit] Notable training ships
- 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:
- Nautilus of the Spanish Navy
- Galatea of the Spanish Navy
- 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.
- Eagle of the United States Coast Guard.
- Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy.
- Mircea of the Romanian Navy
- Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy
- Libertad of the Argentine Navy
- Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy.
- Gajabahu of the Sri Lankan Navy
- Philomel of the New Zealand Navy
Merchant fleet:
- Christian Radich of Oslo
- Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
- Mir of St.Petersburg, Russia
- Sedov of Murmansk, Russia
- Sørlandet of Kristiansand
- Statsraad Lemkuhl of Bergen, Norway
- Worcester
- T.S. Dolphin Leith UK 1924 to 1977 http://www.allatsea.cx/dolphin.html
- T.S. Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin,1927)of Bombay, India
- T.S. Rajendra, 1972 Bombay, India
- T.S. Chanakya, 1994 Navi Mumbai, India
- S.S. John W. Brown, New York, New York Board of Education (Liberty Ship)
- S.S Twin Falls, New York, New York Board of Education (Victory Ship)
Sail Training Vessels:
- Californian
- Dar Młodzieży
- Irving and Exy Johnson
- Lady Washington
- Picton Castle
- Pilgrim
- Stavros S Niarchos (ship)
- Tole Mour
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.
