The Importance of Maritime Training Ships

Maritime Training Ships

A training ship is a very important environment in which to train students as sailors. The term is especially used for 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 physical science for high school students, and character building for at-risk youths. In the Sea Cadet Corps all Units use a ship prefix “T.S.”, followed by the ship’s proper name. The Fishguard Sea Cadets’ ship’s name is T.S. Skirmisher. The T.S. prefix is used as the Sea Cadetsis not part of the Royal Navy, and cannot be prefixed “HMS.”

Key Maritime Training Ships

Royal Navy

Ganges
Defiance
Arethusa
Bristol
Clio
Conway
Cornwall
Exmouth
Excellent
Foudroyant
Indefatigable (1914–)
Lion (1871–) including adjacent Implacable
Mars
Mercury
TS Mercury
Northampton
Warspite
Warspite
Worcester
Wellesley
St Vincent

Other Navies

The Amerigo Vespucci at Venice, 2006

The JDS Kashima at Portsmouth, in 2008

ARA Presidente Sarmiento of the Argentine Navy
ARA Libertad of the Argentine Navy
Cisne Branco of the Brazilian Navy
Kaliakra of the Bulgarian Navy
HMCS Oriole of the Canadian Navy
Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy
ARC Gloria of the Colombian Navy
Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy
The first Gorch Fock of the Kriegsmarine
The second Gorch Fock of the Bundesmarine
INS Tir of the Indian Navy
Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy
JDS Kashima of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
ARM Cuauhtémoc of the Mexican Navy
HMNZS Philomel of the New Zealand Navy
BAP Union of the Peruvian Navy
ORP Iskra of the Polish Navy
The second NRP Sagres of the Portuguese Navy
The third NRP Sagres of the Portuguese Navy
Mircea of the Romanian Navy
Nautilus of the Spanish Navy
Galatea of the Spanish Navy
Juan Sebastián Elcano of the Spanish Navy
SLNS Gajabahu of the Sri Lankan Navy
Type 679 Daxing class training ship Zheng He of the People’s Liberation Army Navy
USCGC Eagle of the United States Coast Guard (ex-SSS Horst Wessel of the Kriegsmarine)
USS Sable and USS Wolverine of the United States Navy, the only examples of dedicated training aircraft carriers, which were used for training naval aviators and landing signal officers rather than sailors
ROU Capitán Miranda of the Uruguayan Navy
ARBV Simón Bolívar (BE-11) of the Venezuelan Navy

Merchant Marine Fleet

SS John W. Brown

Sedov

Christian Radich of Oslo, Norway
Herzogin Cecilie Germany
Belem France
Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
Khersones Ukrainia
Kraljica Mora Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure of Croatia
Mir of St.Petersburg, Russia
STS Sedov of Murmansk, Russia
Sørlandet of Kristiansand
SS John W. Brown (1946– 1982) of New York, New York Board of Education (Liberty Ship)
SS Twin Falls Victory (1972– 1982) as the SS John W. Brown II of New York, New York Board of Education (Victory Ship)
Statsraad Lemkuhl of Bergen, Norway
Worcester
Danmark (ship) of Copenhagen, Denmark
T.S. Dolphin Leith (1924–1977) of Scotland^[1]
T.S. Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin, 1927) of Bombay, India
T.S. Rajendra (1972) of Bombay, India
T.S. Chanakya (1994) of Navi Mumbai, India
T/S Kapitan Felix Oca of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific