"place somewhere other than the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. The Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Ernest Pretyman, asked the House of Commons for an increase of £400,000 in Vote 10 of the Navy Estimates for 1903–1904. He said that King Edward had indicated that he wished to present Osborne House and its grounds to the nation, thus providing ""a most admirable site, in a situation second to none"" for a naval establishment. Pretyman went on to explain that several new buildings were needed, and he hoped they would be ready by August. There would be a large gymnasium and recreation"
"Commonwealth students are part of the student body. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary sends its officer cadets to BRNC for an 10-week initial officer training course, before they start at a maritime college. Following the closures of the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, in 1994 and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1998, BRNC is the sole naval college in the United Kingdom. Slightly removed from the main buildings is Sandquay, which is below the college on the River Dart. It is primarily used for seamanship and boat handling training. Cadets are required to know that there are 187 steps from"
"University Boat Club Britannia Challenge Cup The Britannia Challenge Cup is a rowing event for men's coxed fours at the annual Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England. It is open to male crews from a single rowing club. Since 2004, Boat clubs from any university, college, or secondary school are not permitted, with a separate event (now the Prince Albert Challenge Cup) for student crews. The Britannia Challenge Cup was first awarded in 1969, as an event for club and student men's coxed fours, and is named after the Nottingham Britannia Rowing Club, to mark"
"Britannia Challenge Cup The Britannia Challenge Cup is a rowing event for men's coxed fours at the annual Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England. It is open to male crews from a single rowing club. Since 2004, Boat clubs from any university, college, or secondary school are not permitted, with a separate event (now the Prince Albert Challenge Cup) for student crews. The Britannia Challenge Cup was first awarded in 1969, as an event for club and student men's coxed fours, and is named after the Nottingham Britannia Rowing Club, to mark the club's centenary."
"City of London. Its purpose was to care for and educate children whose fathers were lost at sea. In 1862 the school moved into new buildings in Snaresbrook, London, with the support of the Prince Consort, Prince Albert (husband of Queen Victoria) and John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, a British Prime Minister. The school earned the designation ""Royal"" from Edward VII 1902 and the name was changed to the Royal Merchant Navy School by George V. In 1921, the school moved to Sindlesham near Wokingham, Berkshire into its present home in a Victorian mansion, Bearwood House. In 1961, the school"
"Royal Naval School The Royal Naval School was an English school that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by the Royal Naval College Act 1840. It was a charitable institution, established as a boarding school for the sons of officers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Many of its pupils achieved prominence in military and diplomatic service. The school closed in 1910. A purpose-built school building was designed by the architect John Shaw Jr, and opened in about 1844 at New Cross in south-east London (close to Deptford and Greenwich, both areas with strong"
"Earth in """". Royal Naval College, Greenwich The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, providing courses for naval officers. It was the home of the Royal Navy's staff college, which provided advanced training for officers. The equivalent in the British Army was the Staff College, Camberley and the equivalent in the Royal Air Force was the RAF Staff College, Bracknell. The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was founded by an Order in Council dated 16 January 1873. The establishment of its officers consisted of a President, who was always a Flag Officer; a"
"Old Royal Naval College The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London, described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as being of ""outstanding universal value"" and reckoned to be the ""finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles"". The site is managed by the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, set up in July 1998 as a registered charity to ""look after these magnificent buildings and their grounds for the benefit of the nation"". The grounds and some"
"1863, when the wooden hulk was moved from Portland and moored in the River Dart to serve as a base. In 1864, after an influx of new recruits, ""Britannia"" was supplemented by . Prior to this, a Royal Naval Academy (later Royal Naval College) had operated for more than a century from 1733 to 1837 at Portsmouth, a major naval installation. The original ""Britannia"" was replaced by the in 1869, which was renamed ""Britannia."" The foundation stone for a new building at the college was laid by King Edward VII in March 1902. Sir Aston Webb designed the shore-based college"
"Royal Naval College, Greenwich The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, providing courses for naval officers. It was the home of the Royal Navy's staff college, which provided advanced training for officers. The equivalent in the British Army was the Staff College, Camberley and the equivalent in the Royal Air Force was the RAF Staff College, Bracknell. The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was founded by an Order in Council dated 16 January 1873. The establishment of its officers consisted of a President, who was always a Flag Officer; a Captain, Royal Navy;"
"Navy Survival Equipment School (RNSES) became part of the Royal Navy Air Engineering School, which became the Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival School (RNAESS). Underwater rescue training was at HMS Vernon in Hampshire until 1985; the new £15m Underwater Escape Training Unit opened in March 2018. Royal Navy pilots begin at the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) to do 35 weeks of officer training, then move to 727 Naval Air Squadron to undergo fixed-wing aircraft training on the Grob Tutor; not everyone makes it through this part of naval training. The pilots then undertake Air 424. Once Air 424"
"The Marvell College The Marvell College is a coeducational secondary school located in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school was originally named after Andrew Marvell, a 17th century metaphysical poet and politician. When the Andrew Marvell College became an academy in September 2016 it became The Marvell College. The school opened in 1953 as Barham High School and Jervis High School. The schools were named after HMS Barham and HMS Jervis, former Royal Navy war ships. Barham was exclusively for girls and Jervis exclusively for boys. Both schools were later combined, became coeducational and"
"Joint Services Command and Staff College Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) is a British military academic establishment providing training and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving officers of other states. JSCSC combined the single service provision of the British Armed Forces: Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Staff College, Camberley, RAF Staff College, Bracknell, and the Joint Service Defence College, Greenwich. Initially formed at Bracknell in 1997, the college moved to a purpose-built facility in the grounds of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Watchfield"
"Royal Naval Engineering College The Royal Naval Engineering College was a specialist establishment for the training of Royal Navy engineers. It was founded as Keyham College in 1880, new buildings were opened in Manadon in 1940 and the old college site at Keyham closed in 1958. The college was renamed HMS ""Thunderer"" in 1946, and closed in 1995. Construction of Keyham College on the dockside in the Keyham suburb of Plymouth started in February 1879, at a cost of £30,000 and opened in July 1880 as Training Schools for Engineer Students, replacing the hulk of HMS ""Marlborough"" which had been"
"Blackpool and The Fylde College Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC) is a further and higher education college in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Facilities include four main campuses located across the Fylde Coast, all of which have recently undergone or are currently undergoing major redevelopment. The college is an Associate College of Lancaster University and offers full and part-time further education, higher education and vocational courses along with apprenticeships. From September 2016 the college also holds its own foundation degree awarding powers. The sites in Fleetwood form a specialised Nautical campus, which teaches courses for merchant seafarers and offshore workers. The"
"transferred to University College London in 1967. The Royal Naval College continued to train women until 1976, when their courses were transferred to the Britannia Royal Naval College. From 1983 the relocated Joint Services Defence College also occupied much of the King Charles building. With a shrinking Royal Navy, the decision was taken to close RNC Greenwich in 1998. All initial officer training is now carried out at the Britannia Royal Naval College, and the new Joint Services Command and Staff College, created in 1997, took over the staff college functions. The college was established in buildings designed by Sir"
"Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. In keeping with tradition, for this role the ship has been renamed ""Hindostan"". As she is not a commissioned ship she is not prefixed ""HMS"". HMS Cromer (M103) HMS ""Cromer"" was a ""Sandown""-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1992. She was named after the North Norfolk seaside town of the same name. HMS ""Cromer"" visited Dundee on 6–9 November 1998 (for a Dundee navy day and Armistice Day commemorations) when she was accompanied by various warships from European countries including: Norwegian minelayer/command ship KNM ""Vidar"", Norwegian minesweeper KNM ""Måløy"", Dutch minehunter M"
"Naval College, Greenwich from 1994), Flag Officer, Surface Flotilla in April 1995 and Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command in September 1997. In retirement he became Chief Executive of the St Andrew's Group of Hospitals. In 2005 he became Chairman of Council of the University of Buckingham and in 2006 he was appointed Chairman of NHS East Midlands and he also became Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman. John Brigstocke Admiral Sir John Richard Brigstocke KCB (born 30 July 1945) is a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord. Educated at West Downs School, Marlborough"
"at Aston University, University of Birmingham, Loughborough University, Northumbria University, University of Newcastle upon Tyne or University of Southampton. Senior Ratings of the appropriate sub-specialisation may also be commissioned as Engineer Officers on the Senior Upper Yardman Scheme. New Entry training is undertaken at Britannia Royal Naval College where the courses vary slightly for new entry and SUY cadets. New Entry officers then undergo Common Fleet Time (4 months) where they learn the ropes in an operational warship using a syllabus common to all Officer specialisations; completing the Fleet Board to be permitted to continue to further training of Specialist"
"Beachley Barracks Beachley Barracks is a British Army base in Beachley in England, close to Chepstow, Wales. The Barracks is located at Beachley Point between the River Severn and the River Wye. In 1915, during the First World War, the government requisitioned a large area of land at Beachley and constructed National Shipyard No.2. However, the war ended before production had begun. Instead, in 1924 it was decided to establish a British Army Army Apprentices School (which in 1966 was renamed as an Army Apprentices College) at Beachley to ensure a core of technical qualified soldiers with excellent technical education"
"are on display at these two establishments. The site of the former RNEC at Manadon, Plymouth was sold off and has now been transformed into housing. Royal Naval Engineering College The Royal Naval Engineering College was a specialist establishment for the training of Royal Navy engineers. It was founded as Keyham College in 1880, new buildings were opened in Manadon in 1940 and the old college site at Keyham closed in 1958. The college was renamed HMS ""Thunderer"" in 1946, and closed in 1995. Construction of Keyham College on the dockside in the Keyham suburb of Plymouth started in February"
"responsibility for the Royal Yacht Britannia in 1990. He retired in 1995. He has served as equerry to the Queen and as Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. The Sir Robert Woodard Academy, which has been named in his honour, was opened on the site of the previous school, Boundstone Community College, in September 2009. In 1963 he married Rosamund Lucia Gibbs; they have two sons and one daughter. Robert Woodard Rear Admiral Sir Robert Nathaniel Woodard, KCVO, DL (born 13 January 1939) is a former Commander of the Royal Yacht Britannia. Educated at Lancing College, the school founded by his great-grandfather,"
"Air 424 Air 424 is the four-week survival training course that the Royal Navy gives to its pilots, whether helicopter or fixed-wing. Before the mid-1990s, the survival training course took place at HMS Daedalus in Hampshire. The Royal Navy Survival Equipment School was at Seafield Park, Hampshire. The new £3.25m Royal Navy Sea Survival Training Centre opened at HMS Excellent on Friday 2 March 2012 by Commodore Adrian Nance, who was Commodore from 2004-06 of the Royal Navy Maritime Warfare School at HMS Excellent. HMS Excellent is also the home of the Defence Diving School. In February 1995, the Royal"
"1958 in Balham in London, England, and spent his early years in Mitcham and Tooting Bec. He was educated at Bec Grammar School in Tooting Bec, and at Sutton Manor High School (now Sutton Grammar School), in Sutton. He went on to take a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen's College, Oxford and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (1989–1990) on police scholarships; and also studied for a postgraduate Diploma in Policing and Applied Criminology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. When he was at Oxford, he was Captain"
"south of England and beyond, particularly in Sussex, Hampshire and south London; there have also been units as far afield as Acton, Northampton, Milton Keynes and Derby. In all there have been over 64 units, or ‘Training Ships’, but the exact number is unknown as the records of some units have been lost over time. These have included an all-girl unit at TS Tudor Rose, and an all-boy unit, TS Collingwood, both at Langley Green in Crawley. All training ships have been named after serving or previous ships belonging to the Royal Navy. The Nautical Training Corps The Nautical Training"
"after the War, the College absorbed the Royal Air Force Technical College in 1966. The Royal Air Force College is based at RAF Cranwell near Sleaford in Lincolnshire, and is sometimes titled as the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Cranwell was first established in 1916 as the Royal Navy air training centre and airships were operational there until the end of World War I. In December 1915, after the Royal Naval Air Service had broken away from the Royal Flying Corps, Commodore Godfrey Paine was sent to Cranwell to start a naval flying training school in order that the Royal"
"Officers for the Royal Navy Police are drawn from the rating corps as senior upper yardmen and are commissioned following training at Britannia Royal Naval College or Commando Training Centre Royal Marines. In November 2016, a Defence Estate review by the Ministry of Defence gave an estimated disposal date of 2025 for Southwick Park. It is intended that the College will relocate to Worthy Down Barracks, Winchester, while other specialised functions will relocate to Aldershot. Defence College of Policing and Guarding The Defence College of Policing and Guarding is the training centre for the Service Police of the British Armed"
"London Nautical School The London Nautical School is a foundation school for boys and a coeducational sixth form, located in the Blackfriars area of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The school is celebrating its 100 years of existence in 2015. In May 2015 the school received a Good judgement from Ofsted. The school retains a strong nautical and maritime tradition with boys and girls experiencing a range of water sports. A large number of pupils are involved with the sea cadets and some continue into both the Royal and Merchant Navy. The school is renowned for its strong sporting"
"Defence College of Policing and Guarding The Defence College of Policing and Guarding is the training centre for the Service Police of the British Armed Forces. The centre was established at Southwick Park, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, in 2005 and consolidates training for the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police in a single location, assuring consistent standards across the service. The College was opened in 2005 at Southwick House, the former site of HMS ""Dryad"". The regimental headquarters of the Royal Military Police also moved to the site following withdrawal from Roussillon Barracks, Chichester. RAF Police"
"officer training college for the Royal Navy known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Initial training began at the age of 13, and further studies were continued at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. The College closed in 1921, with the last students leaving on 9 April 1921. Former students included Queen Victoria's great-grandsons, the future Edward VIII and George VI, and their younger brother George, Duke of Kent. Another well-known alumnus of the college was Jack Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's ""Peter Pan"". Davies — whose brothers all went to Eton"
"HMS Collingwood (shore establishment) HMS ""Collingwood"" is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, in Fareham, England. It is the lead establishment of the Maritime Warfare School and the largest naval training organisation in Western Europe. The Maritime Warfare School is a federated training establishment incorporating HMS ""Excellent"", the Defence Diving School, the RN Physical Training School, the School of Hydrography and Meteorology in Plymouth and the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth Naval Base. HMS ""Collingwood"" gained its name from Lord Collingwood, a distinguished admiral at the turn of the 19th century. The current shore establishment"
"Royal Naval Academy The Royal Naval Academy was a facility established in 1733 in Portsmouth Dockyard to train officers for the Royal Navy. The founders' intentions were to provide an alternative means to recruit officers and to provide standardised training, education and admission. In 1806 it was renamed the Royal Naval College and in 1816 became the Royal Naval College and the School for Naval Architecture. It was closed as a training establishment for officer entrants in 1837. In 1733, a shoreside facility was established in the dockyard for 40 recruits. A comprehensive syllabus provided theoretical and practical experience in"
"Thames Nautical Training College The Thames Nautical Training College, as it is now called, was, for over a hundred years, situated aboard ships named HMS ""Worcester"". London shipowners, marine insurance underwriters and merchants subscribed to its founding as an institution which would provide trained officers for a seagoing career. The British Admiralty loaned the 50-gun, 1,500-ton frigate HMS ""Worcester"" for the scheme, and in 1862 the Thames Marine Officer Training School was opened. She was to find her eventual home off Greenhithe, in the Thames, in 1871, after temporary berths at Blackwall, Erith and Southend. The college expanded and the"