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A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
s. The term is especially used for ships employed by navies
Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions....
 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
Sail training

From its modern interpretations to its antecedents when maritime nations would send young naval officer candidates to sea , sail training provides an unconventional and effective way of building many useful skills on and off the water....
 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 are prefixed T.S followed by the ships name, e.g Preston Sea Cadets ships name is T.S Galloway.






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A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
s. The term is especially used for ships employed by navies
Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions....
 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
Sail training

From its modern interpretations to its antecedents when maritime nations would send young naval officer candidates to sea , sail training provides an unconventional and effective way of building many useful skills on and off the water....
 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 are prefixed T.S followed by the ships name, e.g Preston Sea Cadets ships name is T.S Galloway. The prefix is used as the Sea Cadets
Sea Cadets

Sea Cadets are generally members of a Sea Cadet Corps, a formal cadet organisation of young people with an interest in their national navy. The organization may be sponsored by the Navy or Naval supporter's organisation, such as a Navy League in the UK, or similar organisation....
 is not part of the navy, paramilitary or pre-service and cannot be prefixed HMS
HMS

HMS may refer to:...


Notable training ships


Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
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  • Ganges
    HMS Ganges (1821)

    HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, constructed from teak....
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1861)

    HMS Defiance was the last wooden Ship of the line launched for the Royal Navy. She never saw service as a wooden line-of-battle ship. In 1884 she became a schoolship....
  • Arethusa
  • Bristol
    HMS Bristol (D23)

    HMS Bristol was the only Type 82 destroyer destroyer of the Royal Navy. Originally intended as the first of a class of new large destroyers to escort the CVA-01 aircraft carriers projected to come into service in the early 1970s, Bristol turned out to be a unique ship....
  • Clio
    HMS Clio (1858)

    HMS Clio was a wooden warship, used for most of her life as a school ship.Clio was built at Sheerness as a 200 foot 22-gun Pearl class corvette and launched on 28 August 1858....
  • Conway
    HMS Conway (school ship)

    HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of its life aboard a 19th-century wooden battleship....
  • Cornwall
    HMS Cornwall (1812)

    HMS Cornwall was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 January 1812 at Deptford. She served in the English Channel in the Napoleonic Wars....
  • Exmouth (2)
  • Excellent
    HMS Excellent (1787)

    HMS Excellent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 27 November 1787. She was the captaincy of John Gell before he was appointed an Admiral....
  • Foudroyant
    HMS Foudroyant (1798)

    HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Plymouth, and launched on 31 March 1798. She was designed by Sir John Henslow, and was the only ship built to her draught....
  • Indefatigable (1914–)
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1847)

    HMS Lion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 July 1847 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was fitted with propeller#Marine in 1859, and was sold out of the navy in 1905....
     (1871–) including adjacent "Implacable"
    HMS Implacable

    Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Implacable:* The first HMS Implacable , launched in 1795 as the French ship Duguay-Trouin, was a seventy-four third-rate ship of the line....
  • Mars
    HMS Mars

    Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Mars, after Mars , the Roman mythology god of war:* The first Mars was a 50-gun ship, originally Dutch, captured in the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, and sold in 1667....
  • Mercury
  • Northampton
    HMS Northampton (1876)

    HMS Northampton was a Nelson class cruiser armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by Robert Napier & Sons, Govan, Scotland and launched in 1876....
  • Warspite
    HMS Waterloo (1833)

    HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 June 1833 at Chatham Dockyard.Waterloo was cut down to an 89-gun 2-decker and converted to steam at Chatham 1 April 1859?12 December 1859....
  • Worcester
  • Wellesley
    HMS Wellesley

    Two ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have been named HMS Wellesley after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
  • St Vincent
    HMS St Vincent (1815)

    HMS St Vincent was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1810 at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 11 March 1815 before a crowd that was put at 50,000 spectators....
Other navies:
  • ARBV Simón Bolívar (BE-11) of the Venezuelan Navy
  • Nautilus
    Fernando Villaamil

    Fernando Villaamil was a Spanish people naval officer, remembered for his internationally recognized professionalism, for being the designer of the first destroyer warship in history and for his heroic death in the naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba of the Spanish-American war, being the highest Spanish officer to suffer this fate in that ev...
     of the Spanish Navy
    Spanish Navy

    The Spanish Armada is the maritime arm of the Military of Spain, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of America, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path from the Far East to America ....
  • Galatea of the Spanish Navy
    Spanish Navy

    The Spanish Armada is the maritime arm of the Military of Spain, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of America, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path from the Far East to America ....
  • Juan Sebastián Elcano
    Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish ship)

    The Juan Sebasti?n Elcano is a training ship for the Royal Spanish Navy. She is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled schooner. At 113 metres long, she is the third-largest Tall Ships in the world....
     of the Spanish Navy
    Spanish Navy

    The Spanish Armada is the maritime arm of the Military of Spain, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of America, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path from the Far East to America ....
  • Esmeralda
    Esmeralda (BE-43)

    Esmeralda is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Military of Chile and currently the second tallest and longest sailing ship in the world....
     of the Chilean Navy
    Chilean Navy

    The Chilean Navy is the naval force of Chile....
  • The first Gorch Fock
    Gorch Fock (1933)

    The Gorch Fock I is a Germany three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. As was taken as war reparation by the Soviet Union after World War II and baptized Tovarishch, the Germans built a replacement, the Gorch Fock , which is still in service....
     of the Kriegsmarine
    Kriegsmarine

    The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi Germany regime, superseding the Reichsmarine, and the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I....
    .
  • The second Gorch Fock
    Gorch Fock (1958)

    The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the Germany German Navy . She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933....
     of the Bundesmarine.
  • Sagres II of the Portuguese Navy
    Portuguese Navy

    The Portuguese Navy is the Navy of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defence of Portugal....
    .
  • Eagle
    USCGC Eagle (WIX-327)

    The is a barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in American government service....
     of the United States Coast Guard
    United States Coast Guard

    The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the Military of the United States and one of seven Uniformed services of the United States. In addition to being a military branch at all times, it is unique among the armed forces in that it is also a Admiralty law agency and a Federal government of the United States regulatory agency....
    .
  • Suomen Joutsen
    Suomen Joutsen

    Suomen Joutsen is a three-mast, steel hull, full rigged ship. She was built in 1902 in St. Nazaire, France to serve in the trade between Atlantic and Pacific ports....
     of the Finnish Navy
    Finnish Navy

    The Finnish Navy is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscriptions are trained each year....
    .
  • Mircea
    Mircea (ship)

    The Mircea is a three masted barque, built in 1938 in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Naval Forces....
     of the Romanian Navy
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Amerigo Vespucci (ship)

    The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is Livorno, Italy....
     of the Italian Navy
    Italian Navy

    Italian Navy may refer to:* Italian unification navies of the Italian states* Regia Marina, the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy * Marina Militare, the Navy of the Italian Republic ...
  • Libertad
    ARA Libertad (Q-2)

    ARA Libertad is a tall ship which serves as a school ship in the Argentine Navy. She was built in the 1950s at the Rio Santiago shipyards near Buenos Aires, Argentina....
     of the Argentine Navy
  • Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy
    Bulgarian Navy

    The Bulgarian Navy is the navy of Bulgaria and forms part of the Military of Bulgaria. It has been largely overlooked in the reforms that Bulgaria had to go through in order to comply with NATO standards, mostly because of the great expense involved and the fact that naval assaults are not considered to be a great concern for the count...
    .
  • Gajabahu
    SLNS Gajabahu

    SLNS Gajabahu was a River class frigate of the Sri Lanka Navy. She has since been converted to a training ship for the Naval & Maritime Academy, Trincomalee....
     of the Sri Lankan Navy
    Sri Lankan Navy

    The Sri Lankan Navy is the navy of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is classed as the most vital Defence Force of Sri Lanka, due being an island. It conducts maritime operations at sea for the defence of the Sri Lankan nation and its interests....
  • Philomel
    HMNZS Philomel

    HMNZS Philomel is the main administrative Military baseof the Royal New Zealand Navy. Originally a training ship on board the cruiser it takes its name from, it is part of the Devonport Naval Base in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand....
     of the New Zealand Navy
    Royal New Zealand Navy

    The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. In April 2006 the fleet consisted of ten ships, with the combat force consisting of two frigates....
  • Cuauhtémoc
    Cuauhtémoc (ship)

    The ARM Cuauht?moc BE-01 is a Sail Training vessel of the Military of Mexico, named for the last Aztec Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauht?moc who was captured and executed in 1525....
     of the Mexican Navy
    Mexican Navy

    The Mexican Navy is a branch of the Military of Mexico responsible for conducting navy operations. Its stated mission is "to use the naval force of the federation for the exterior defense, and to help with internal order"....
  • arc Gloria of the Colombian Navy


Merchant fleet:
  • Christian Radich
    Christian Radich (ship)

    Christian Radich is a Norway full rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framn?s shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937....
     of Oslo
    Oslo

    is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
    , Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
  • Kruzenshtern
    Kruzenshtern (ship)

    The Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern is a Russian four masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 in Bremerhaven-Weserm?nde, Germany, as shipyard number "S408" under the name Padua ....
     of Kaliningrad
    Kaliningrad

    Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Mir of St.Petersburg, Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Sedov
    Sedov

    The STS Sedov , formerly the Magdalene Vinnen II and the Kommodore Johnsen , is a 4-masted steel barque that for almost 80 years was the largest traditional sailing ship in operation....
     of Murmansk
    Murmansk

    Murmansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Sørlandet
    Sørlandet (ship)

    The S?rlandet is Kristiansand's Norway school ship. It was built in 1927. Originally built without an engine, the engine and propeller were installed in 1958....
     of Kristiansand
    Kristiansand

    is a city and Municipalities of Norway, and the capital of the counties of Norway of Vest-Agder, Norway and of the geographical Regions of Norway of Southern Norway , the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway consisting of the two counties Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder....
  • Statsraad Lemkuhl
    Statsraad Lemkuhl

    File:Statsraad_Lehmkuhl_and_Lord_Nelson.jpgThe Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted barque rigged sail training vessel owned and operated by the Statsraad Lehmkuhl Foundation....
     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 Mlodziezy
    Dar Mlodziezy

    Dar Mlodziezy is a Poland sailing training ship designed by Zygmunt Choren and launched in 1982 in the Gdansk Gdansk Shipyard, Poland. Its home port is Gdynia ....
  • Irving and Exy Johnson
  • Lady Washington
    Lady Washington

    The original Lady Washington was a 90-ton merchant sloop. She sailed around Cape Horn and participated in the fur and pelt trade with the coastal Indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Pacific Northwest and in tea and porcelain across the Pacific Ocean in China....
  • Picton Castle
    Picton Castle (ship)

    The Picton Castle is a tall ship employed in sail training. The Picton Castle undertakes 13-month round-the-world voyages, among a variety of shorter voyages along the east coast of the Americas....
  • Pilgrim
    Pilgrim (brig)

    The Pilgrim was a sailing brig engaged in the California hide trade of the early 19th century. Although just one among many other ships engaged in the business, the Pilgrim was immortalized by one of her sailors, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about its 1834 voyage between Boston and...
  • Stavros S Niarchos (ship)
    Stavros S Niarchos (ship)

    The Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. She is primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training....
  • Tole Mour
    Tole Mour

    The SSV Tole Mour is a schooner and sail training vessel operating in the Channel Islands of California, off the West Coast of the United States....


In fiction:
  • PRS James Randolph, an interplanetary spacecraft
    Spacecraft

    A spacecraft is a Craft or machine designed for spaceflight. On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters outer space then returns to the Earth....
     parked in Earth
    Earth

    Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
     orbit in Robert A. Heinlein
    Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert Anson Heinlein was an United States novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre....
    's novel, Space Cadet
    Space Cadet

    Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System....
  • USS Republic (NCC-1371), a starship
    Starship

    A starship is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel....
     referred to in Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
  • Betty Jeanne, in the novel Fergus Crane by Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart

    Paul Stewart is the name of:*Paul Stewart - Writer of The Edge Chronicles*Paul Stewart - Motor racing driver/team director, son of World Champion Jackie...
     and Chris Riddell
    Chris Riddell

    Chris Riddell is a United Kingdom illustrator of children's literature, and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestl? Smarties Book Prize seven times....
    .