Atraining ship is aship used to train students assailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed bynavies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and oldhulks used to house classrooms. As withreceiving ships oraccommodation 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 theNaval Discipline Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 109),[1] 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 asstone frigates, most "Training Ships" of the BritishSea Cadet Corps, by example, are shore facilities (although the corps has floating Training Ships also, includingTSRoyalist).
The hands-on aspect provided bysail training has also been used as a platform for everything from semesters at sea for undergraduateoceanography andbiology students to character-building for youths.[citation needed]
Painting of the first Mersey boat race between cadets ofHMS Conway (on the right) and London'sHMS Worcester on 11 June 1891. Also moored in line are reformatory shipsClarence (centre, furthest away) andAkbar, andTS Indefatigable.[2]
The anime seriesGirls und Panzer makes use of an overblown application of the term "school ship" by introducingcarrier-type vessels supporting federal schools and accompanying living communities.