training ship


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train′ing ship`


n.
a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
[1855–60]
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Noun1.training ship - a ship used to train students as sailorstraining ship - a ship used to train students as sailors
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
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Indonesian Navy training ship Kri Bima Suci (945) dropped achor in Manila on Monday for a four-day goodwill visit.
Training ship HMS Eaglet, right, with the minesweeper HMS Mersey, in September, 1968
A blaze sunk the Wellesley training ship on the River Tyne, March 11, 1914
AJSU PresidentYasumi Morita for his part said, "The new training ship project is an epoch-making scheme, first in the world.' 'This has been accomplished by the cooperation of four parties: the labor and the management of the beneficial ownership country and the labor and the management of the seafarers' supply country in the international labor-management relations." Paying tribute to AMOSUP founder Capt.
Lord Barry said: "The Training Ship goes from strength to strength.
"After some years of renovation the ship was transformed from a fishing vessel to a training ship, it started its life under the Italian flag."
At the end of the week, all of those In attendance, for either the cadet exchange or the conference, were awarded with a plaque for their participation in the week-long program at the Training Ship Jawahar.
Aberdeen built some of the fastest clippers and windjammers the world has seen during the 19th century, including Thermopylae, the greatest of them all and faster than the Cutty Sark.Yet Britain is the only European country not to own a working square rigged training ship.
The Vindicatrix was a training ship based at Sharpness, Gloucestershire, where thousands of boys aged 15-17 trained for service in the British Merchant Navy over the years 1939-66, many of whom gave their lives during WW2.
The Vindicatrix was a training ship based at Sharpness, Gloucestershire, where thousands of boys aged 15 to 17 trained for service in the British Merchant Navy from 1939 to 1966, many of whom gave their lives during the Second World War.
AKRA (CyHAN)- Argentina's government has ordered a crew of over 300 sailors to leave its navy training ship, the Libertad, which has been seized by authorities in Ghana.
Hidetoshi Fuchinoue, commander of a Japanese training squadron, said at a news conference aboard the Japanese training ship the 'Kashima.' The Japanese training squadron is currently on a four-day goodwill training exercise with the Saudi Navy and the three training ships are anchored at Jeddah Islamic Port.

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