Editing Training ship (section)

{{Short description|Ship used to train seafarers}}
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[[File:A port bow view of the Singapore training ship RSS PANGLIMA (P-68) underway.jpg|thumb|A port bow view of the [[Singapore]] training ship {{RSS|Panglima}}]]
A '''training ship''' is a [[ship]] used to train students as [[sailor]]s. 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 [[Hulk (ship type)|hulks]] used to house classrooms. As with [[receiving ship]]s or [[accommodation ship]]s, 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 the [[Naval Discipline Act 1866]] ([[29 & 30 Vict.]] c. 109),<ref>{{cite web|title=The Naval Discipline Act, 1866|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/NDA1866.htm}}</ref> 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 as [[stone frigate]]s, most ''"Training Ships"'' of the British [[Sea Cadets (United Kingdom)|Sea Cadet Corps]], by example, are shore facilities (although the corps has floating Training Ships also, including [[TS Royalist (2014)|TS ''Royalist'']]).

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 to character-building for youths.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}