School ship - Definition and Overview

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.

Notable school ships

Royal Navy:

• Ganges
• Defiance
• Arethusa
• Bristol
• Clio
• Conway
• Cornwall
• Exmouth (2)
• Excellent
• Foudroyant
• Indefatigable (1914–)
• Mars
• Mercury
• Northampton
• Warspite
• Worcester (2)
• Wellesley

Other navies:

• 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.

Merchant fleet:

• Christian Radich of Oslo
• Sørlandet of Kristiansand
• Statsraad Lemkuhl of Bergen, Norway