A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by

navies A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It include ...

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

* * * * * * * '' Cornwall'' * * * * * * '' Indefatigable'' * , including adjacent * * * * '' Mount Edgcumbe'' * * * '' Warspite'' (1877) * '' Warspite'' (1922) * * '' Wellesley'' *

Other navies

* Algerian Navy ** '' El-Mellah'' * Argentine Navy ** ** * Bangladesh Navy ** BNS ''Shaheed Ruhul Amin'' * Brazilian Navy ** '' Cisne Branco'' * Bulgarian Navy ** * Royal Canadian Navy ** (sail training) ** HMCS ''Grisle'' * Chilean Navy ** * Chinese

People's Liberation Army Navy The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN; ), also known as the People's Navy, Chinese Navy, or PLA Navy, is the maritime service branch of the People's Liberation Army. The PLAN traces its lineage to naval units fighting during the Chinese ...

**'' Zheng He'' ** ''Brave the Wave''-class ** * Colombian Navy ** * Dominican Navy ** * Finnish Navy ** '' Suomen Joutsen'' ** * German Navy ** , of the

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** , of the Bundesmarine * Indian Navy ** * Indonesian Navy ** ** ** ** KRI ''Ki Hajar Dewantara'' *Irish Naval Service ** * Italian Navy ** ** * Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ** * Mexican Navy ** * Royal Dutch Navy ** ** * New Zealand Navy ** * Peruvian Navy ** * Polish Navy ** * Portuguese Navy ** The second NRP ''Sagres'' ** The third * Romanian Navy ** * Spanish Navy ** ''Nautilus'' ** '' Galatea'' ** * Sri Lankan Navy ** * United States ** , of the United States Coast Guard ** , of the United States Navy ** , of the United States Navy * Uruguayan Navy ** * Venezuelan Navy **

Merchant fleet

MV Cape Don MV ''Cape Don'' is a former lighthouse tender, now a museum ship and training ship in Waverton, New South Wales, Australia. Built and launched by the State Dockyard at Newcastle, New South Wales in 1962 for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, she ...

* '' Christian Radich'', Norway * '' Herzogin Cecilie'', Germany * , France * , Russia * , Ukraine * '' Kraljica Mora'', Croatia * , Germany, sunk 1957 * , Germany * , Russia * , Russia * , Norway * , USA * '' John W. Brown II'', USA * '' Statsraad Lehmkuhl'', Norway * '' Worcester'' * , Denmark * TS ''Dolphin Leith'', United Kingdom * TS ''Dufferin'' (IMMTS ''Dufferin''), British India * TS ''Rajendra'', India * TS , India * of the

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United States Maritime Administration owned training ships

* TS ''General Rudder'' of the Texas A&M University at Galveston * of the SUNY Maritime College * TS of the California State University Maritime Academy * of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy * 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 * of the United States Merchant Marine Academy * T/V ''Freedom Star'' of the

Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education The Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education is a merchant marine educational facility in Piney Point, Maryland, which is affiliated with the Seafarers International Union. Founded in 1967 in Brooklyn, New York as "The Seafarers' Harr ...

Sail training vessels

* * * * '' Christian Radich'' * '' Dar Młodzieży'' * * ''Exy Johnson'' * * * * '' Lady Washington'' * '' Malcolm Miller'' * * * * * * * * * * ''

Stavros S Niarchos ''Stavros S Niarchos'' is a British brig-rigged tall ship, now renamed "Sunset". She was previously owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust (TSYT). She was primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake ...

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Tole Mour The SSV ''Tole Mour'' was a schooner and sail training vessel operating in the Channel Islands of California, off the West Coast of the United States. Designed by Ewbank, Brooke and Associates, she was built by the Nichols Bros. Boat Builders o ...

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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 ''Fergus Crane'' is a 2004 children's book written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerat ...

'' 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.

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