A training ship is a

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used to train students as

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s. 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

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for high school students, to character building for at-risk youths.

Notable training ships

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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

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

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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, s ...

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* TS ''Dolphin Leith'', United Kingdom * TS ''Dufferin'' (IMMTS ''Dufferin''),

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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

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* TS ''State of Michigan'' of the

Great Lakes Maritime Academy The Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College is located on West Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan. The academy was established in 1969 as a Maritime college to train men and women to be licensed mariners on ships o ...

* 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' Har ...

Sail training vessels

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Dar Młodzieży ''Dar Młodzieży'' ( pl, Gift of the Youth) is a Polish sail training ship designed by Zygmunt Choreń. A prototype of a class of six, the following five slightly-differing units were built subsequently by the same shipyard for the merchant fleet ...

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Lady Washington ''Lady Washington'' is a ship name shared by at least four different 80-100 ton-class Sloop-of-war and merchant sailing vessels during two different time periods. The original sailed during the American Revolutionary War and harassed British ship ...

'' * '' Malcolm Miller'' * * * * * * * * * * '' Stavros S Niarchos'' * * * * '' Tole Mour'' * * *

In fiction

* PRS ''James Randolph'', an interplanetary

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parked in

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orbit in Robert A. Heinlein's novel, '' Space Cadet'' * ''Betty Jeanne'', in the novel ''

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'' by Paul Stewart and

Chris Riddell Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' annu ...

*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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