School ship
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A school ship is a ship used for the training of students as sailors. The term is especially used of ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types, old hulks used to house classrooms, and those used for training at sea.
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 and discipling for at risk youths.
[edit] Notable school ships
- Ganges
- Defiance
- Arethusa
- Bristol
- Clio
- Conway
- Cornwall
- Exmouth (2)
- Excellent
- Foudroyant
- Indefatigable (1914–)
- Lion (1871–) including adjacent "Implacable"
- Mars
- Mercury
- Northampton
- Warspite
- Worcester
- Wellesley
Other navies:
- Juan Sebastián Elcano of the Spanish Navy
- BE-43 Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy
- The first Gorch Fock of the Kriegsmarine.
- The second Gorch Fock of the Bundesmarine.
- Sagres II of the Portuguese Navy.
- Eagle of the United States Coast Guard.
- Suomen Joutsen of the Finnish Navy.
- Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy
- Fragata Libertad of the Argentine Navy
Merchant fleet:
- Christian Radich of Oslo
- Kruzenshtern of Kaliningrad, Russia
- Mir of St.Petersburg, Russia
- Sedov of Murmansk, Russia
- Sørlandet of Kristiansand
- Statsraad Lemkuhl of Bergen, Norway
- Worcester
- T.S. Dufferin (IMMTS Dufferin,1927)of Bombay, India
- T.S. Rajendra, 1972 Bombay, India
- T.S. Chanakya, 1994 Navi Mumbai, India
Sail Training Vessels:
In fiction:
- PRS James Randolph, an interplanetary spacecraft parked in Earth orbit in Robert A. Heinlein's novel, Space Cadet
- USS Republic (NCC-1371), a starship referred to in Star Trek
