Training ship. A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. 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. As with receiving ships or accommodation ships, which were often hulked warships in the 19th Century, when used to bear on their books the shore personnel of a naval station (as under section 87 of the Naval Discipline Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 109), the provisions of the act only applied to officers and men of the Royal Navy borne on the books of a warship), that were generally replaced by shore facilities commissioned as stone frigates, most "Training Ships" of the British Sea Cadet Corps, by example, are shore facilities (although the corps has floating Training Ships also, including TS Royalist).

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 to character-building for youths.

Notable training ships

Royal Navy

  from 1874 to 1933.
 , a series of training ships from 1860 to 1906 (the original  went on to serve as TS Wellesley from 1873 to 1914).
 Britannia, a series of two training ships from 1859 to 1905.
 , a 1973 destroyer used for training from 1987 to 2020.
  from 1904 to 1921 (renamed President in 1911).
  from 1860 to 1902.
  from 1876 to c.1919.
 , a series of three training ships from 1859 to 1956, and then a shore-based school.
 Cornwall (see also Wellesley)
  from 1884 to 1931.
 , a 1955 frigate used for training from 1969 to 1985.
 , a 1957 frigate used for training from 1971 to 1985.
 , a series of three gunnery training ships from 1830 to 1892 before moving ashore.
 , the Royal Navy's first specially commissioned training ship; renamed HMS Worcester after 1945.
 , training ship for gunnery from 1862 to 1884, and for boys from 1891 to 1897. See also Trincomalee.
  from 1865 to 1905; continuing renamed Tenedos III, Indus V and Impregnable III until 1923.
 , formerly the French Duguay-Rouin (1800) renamed in 1805, from 1855 to c.1949.
 , a series of training ships between 1862 and 1929
 , a series of two training ships from 1865 to 1941, including the former .
 , a 1963 destroyer used for training from 1980 to 1993.
  from 1871 to 1905.
  from 1869 to 1929.
 , a naval training establishment founded as a ship in 1885.
 Mount Edgecumbe, formerly , renamed Conway (1861–76), used from 1876 to 1920.
  from 1894 to 1905.
  from 1862 to 1903.
  from 1866 to 1912.
  (1817) from 1860 to 1903, continuing renamed TS Foudroyant until 1986.
 , a series of three training ships from 1862 to 1940.
 Wellesley (see also Cornwall and Boscawen).
 , a series of three training ships from 1862 to 1968.
  from 1862 to 1905.

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
Qi Jiguang
Zheng He
 Brave the Wave-class
 
  Colombian Navy
 
  Dominican Navy
 
  Ecuadorian Navy
 BAE Guayas (BE-21)
  Finnish Navy
 Suomen Joutsen
 
  French Navy
 Jeanne d'Arc 
  German Navy
 , of the Kriegsmarine
 , of the Bundesmarine
  Indian Navy
 , sail training ship commissioned in 2012.
 , sail training ship commissioned in 1997.
 , cadet training ship commissioned in 1986.
 , sail training ship commissioned in 1981.
  Indonesian Navy
 
 
 
 KRI Ki Hajar Dewantara
  Irish Naval Service

  Italian Navy
 
 
  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
 
  Mexican Navy
 
  Royal Dutch Navy
 
 
  New Zealand Navy
 
  Pakistan Navy
 PNS Babur, formerly , bought in 1956 and used for training from 1961 to 1963.
 , formerly Prince William (2001), bought in 2010.
  Peruvian Navy
 
  Polish Navy
 
  Portuguese Navy
 Dom Fernando II e Glória, 1843 frigate used for artillery training from 1865 to 1940.
 Pedro Nunes, formerly the British clipper  (1868), intended for training from 1896 but unused.
 The second NRP Sagres
 The third 
  Romanian Navy 
 
  Spanish Navy
 Nautilus (1886 - 1925)
 Galatea (1925 - 1982)
  (1928–Present)
  (2018–Present)
  Sri Lankan Navy
 
  United States Navy
 , of the United States Navy
 , of the United States Coast Guard
 , of the United States Navy
 , of the United States Navy
  Uruguayan Navy
 
  Venezuelan Navy

Merchant fleet

 
 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
 , Denmark
 TS Dolphin Leith, United Kingdom
 TS Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin), British India
 TS Rajendra, India
 TS , India
  of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific
  of the Australian Maritime College
 MV Stephen Brown Permanently Moored vessel of the Australian Maritime College

United States Maritime Administration–owned training ships
 TS Kennedy (transferred from Massachusetts) of the Texas A&M University at Galveston
 TS Empire State VII of the SUNY Maritime College
 TS Golden Bear of the California State University Maritime Academy
 TS Patriot State II 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

Other sail training vessels

 , schooner launched in 2006.
 , schooner launched in 1984.
 , brigantine launched in 1904.
 , launched in 1984.
 Christian Radich
 Dar Młodzieży
 , schooner launched in 1973.
  and Exy Johnson, twin brigantines launched in 2002.
 
 
 Lady Washington
 Malcolm Miller
 
 , schooner launched in 1991.
 
 , 1911 barque used as TS Arethusa II from 1932 to 1940 and then 1945 to 1975.
 
 , former trawler (1928) converted to barque (1990s) for use 1997 onward.
 
 , a series of two ships launched in 1971 and 2014.
 
 Stavros S Niarchos
 , barque launched in 2000.
 Tole Mour

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 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.

See also
 Stone frigate
 Moored training ship (MTS)

References

External links
 

 
School types
Ship types