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, 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.
A port bow view of the Singapore training ship RSS PANGLIMA (P-68)
Painting of the first Mersey boat race between cadets of HMS Conway (on the right) and London's HMS Worcester on 11 June 1891. Also moored in line are reformatory ships Clarence (centre, furthest away) and Akbar, and TS Indefatigable.
BAP Unión at Callao, in 2017
The second Gorch Fock in front of the Naval Academy Mürwik (Red Castle) in 2015
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.
Built in 1914 as Grossherzog Friedrich August, a school training ship for the German merchant marine, the since 1921 Norwegian-owned Statsraad Lehmkuhl, is one of the oldest sail training ships in service
Italian navy training ship Amerigo Vespucci, launched in 1931.
Cadets man headsails sheets on the Eagle
USCGC Eagle, a barque